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Dental school capitation – an historical perspective
Author(s) -
Winslow JE,
Warren GB
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1981.45.11.tb01514.x
Subject(s) - capitation , legislature , specialty , incentive , perspective (graphical) , graduation (instrument) , medical education , incentive program , family medicine , medicine , political science , health care , economics , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science , microeconomics
The Health Professions Capitation Grant program was in existence for nine years. At its inception the capitation grant program was intended principally to be an incentive program for various health professions schools, dental schools among them, to increase the output of manpower. In recent years, the program had changed its emphasis for dental schools to curricular modifications designed to improve the geographic and specialty distribution of dental graduates. All the same time the appropriations for the program had steadily declined since 1972. These developments and the legislative actions that led to the termination of the capitation program are reviewed.