Author(s): Ahmed Al Kuwaiti
Teaching hospitals are considered more crucial in the healthcare system, as these hospitals deal with medical education, research, and patient care. Besides, medical schools are usually affiliated with these hospitals to handle their students during the course and training period. Hence, this study discussed the order of teaching hospitals and revealed the difference between the medical school and teaching hospital. The features of university hospitals, academic medical centers, academic health centers, and affiliated teaching hospitals were described. It is observed that the medical school differ from the teaching hospital concerning the structure and culture. A medical school needs a hospital to educate its students, perform medical research, and offer its clinical workforce to practice medicine. However, a teaching hospital focuses on high-quality patient care and patient satisfaction. Conversely, the association among medical schools and their teaching hospitals embraces a complex and variable mixture of monopoly and monopsony power. Such an association has not yet ethically studied. There is a need for the significant effort from the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals towards the development of academic medicine since it involves in creating future physicians and innovations, and delivering effective patient care.