The Metropolitan Academic Medical Center provides a careful reexamination of developments of the past decade, offers insights for improving medical education, biomedical research, and health care services, and examines the fate of the medical academy.

"David E. Rogers, M.D., was The Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine, Cornell University Medical School until his death in 1994.
Eli Ginzberg, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus, School of Business, Columbia University, and Director, The Eisenhower Center for the Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University."