Clinical Services Schools

Detailed profiles of schools for Clinical Services from the EdRef college search portal.

Clinical Services programs include study in a wide variety of medical-related fields that revolve around institutions with clinical services departments, such as teaching hospitals. Graduates may work in departments such as medicine, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, family medicine, psychiatry, neurology, anesthesiology, pathology, or radiology. These departments typically have developed residency programs.

Programs focus on preparing professionals who can manage these departments and take a leading role in teaching, patient care, research, and administration. They face many challenges, including competition, cost-containment, and managed care. They learn how to balance the forces of institutional priorities, collaboration, and departmental decision making. Programs prepare them to face the challenges of allocating resources, developing policies, and managing employees.