This Scholarship recognizes the unique contribution the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine has made to management training for physician and clinician executives. In 1977, the original on-campus Administrative Medicine program, designed by Don Detmer, MD and Jay Noren, MD, (see link to article, below) was approved by the Graduate School. From 1979 until 1989, 42 clinician executives, primarily from Wisconsin and the Midwest, graduated from this innovative program.

In 1988, David Kindig, Professor of Preventive Medicine, realized its national and global potential and converted it to a distance education model in partnership with the American College of Physician Executives. The distinctive element was the linking of rigorous management skills to improving the health of populations, which differentiated it from other medical MBA programs, and during its lifetime was the only distance education graduate degree for clinicians accredited by the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Service Administration.

When the program was closed in 2002, funds remaining from tuition and alumni contributions were used to create an endowed scholarship, to be awarded to “MS or MPH students who are clinicians (physicians, nurses, or dentists) and who intend to use the knowledge gained for management in health care and public health.”

The David A Kindig scholarship is awarded to one or two MS, MPH, or PhD students who are clinicians (physicians, nurses, or dentists) who intend to use the knowledge gained from the degree for management in healthcare or public health. It is an annual award that can be made to more than one person.

Recipients

2008-2009  Sahar Abdelrahman and Erin O'Connor
2007-2008  David Greenblatt and Lisa Paulos
2006-2007  Christopher Crnich and Julia Greenleaf

Relevant Articles:
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Detmer, D.E. and J. Noren. An Administrative Medicine Program for Clinician-Execuatives. Journal of Medical Education 56: 640-45, 1981.

Kindig DA, Lastiri S. Administrative medicine: a new medical specialty? Health Aff (Millwood). 1986 Winter;5(4):146-56.

Kindig DA, Lastiri-Quiros S. The changing managerial role of physician executives. J Health Adm Educ. 1989 Winter; 7(1): 33-46.

Kindig DA. Physician Executives: A dual role emerges. Decisions in Imaging Economics. Decisions in Imaging Economics. 3(4):30-34, 1990 (Autumn)

Kindig DA, Dunham NC. How much administration is today's physician doing? Physician Exec. 1991 Jan-Feb;17(1):3-7.

Dunham NC, Kindig DA, Schulz R. The value of the physician executive role to organizational effectiveness and performance. Health Care Manage Rev. 1994 Fall;19(4):56-63.

Kindig DA. Do Physician Executives Make a Difference? Frontiers of Health Services Management. 1997; 13(3) 38-42.