Association’s New President Urges Medical Schools to Put Public Good Above Private Gain

by E Wayne Ross on October 31, 2006

The Chronicle: Association’s New President Urges Medical Schools to Put Public Good Above Private Gain

The new president of the Association of American Medical Colleges has called on medical schools to elevate the public good above their own self-interest by considering tuition caps, curtailing pork-barrel spending requests, and pursuing socially beneficial research projects even if they are not profitable.