HOSPITAL DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL EDUCATION

During recent years, there has been a growing realization on the part of hospital administrators as well as hospital medical staffs that the proper coordination of internships and residency training programs, particularly in community hospitals not affiliated with medical schools, could best be served by the employment of a highly qualified physician paid specifically for the performance of this task. The most common term for such an individual is director of medical education, or oftentimes director of medical education and research. The most successful of these positions are full time in the hospital, and those holding such positions are usually clinicians, most often internists.

While the Council has never stated that the maintenance of fully approved intern and resident training programs depended on the creation of such positions in the hospitals concerned, nevertheless it recognizes the merit of such positions and encourages their creation where desired.

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