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T R Collins

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Corporate travel medicine: benefit analysis of on-site services.

BACKGROUND: Corporations with employees who travel internationally address their travel-related medical needs in a variety of ways. Options utilized include corporate medical departments, local health departments, and local clinics, both contracted and independent. METHODS: A travel clinic at a university medical center routinely provided preventive travel medicine services for many of the local companies. Two of these companies had on-site medical clinics which routinely saw patients for occupational and personal health reasons. At these companies , the university travel clinic assisted in moving employee travel medicine services to the on-site clinic. Direct and indirect costs for new, predeparture employee travel care at each company were compared before, and after, the move on-site. RESULTS: When measured per patient, total cost savings associated with the on-site travel clinic were greater than 15% at both companies (17%, 25%), primarily due to the value of the employees' time saved with decreased travel. Utilization increased at one company by 24% over the first 8 months and lead to higher overall cost, but this cost increase was only 4%. Informal assessments of the value of the on-site service at both companies was uniformly positive. CONCLUSION: For certain corporate settings, on-site clinics may be effective ways of providing travel medicine services.

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Structure of graduate medical education programs in preventive medicine.

Organizing and structuring graduate education programs in preventive medicine is a complex and often obscure process. This article describes the interrelated organizations that affect directly or indirectly the process of preventive medicine graduate education. A brief description of the overall structure of the educational process and suggestions for individuals interested in participating in the determinative organizations are given.

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