In another development, the College has formed a Clinical Practice Group which has been renamed the Medical College of Wisconsin Physicians and Clinics . This organization is comprised of all faculty physicians who provide patient care. The group was formed to unite all patient care activities and to better address service delivery goals, relationships with managed care contracts, the development of physician networks, and facilitating alliances with other physicians, hospitals and systems throughout southeastern Wisconsin. These changes are driven to a large extent by the need to better relate to an increasingly competitive managed care marketplace. Milwaukee s large metropolitan area provides an outstanding base for learning about patient care.
Students appreciate the diversity of the patient population and their medical conditions.
As far as the different problems people come in with, it's amazing. There, too, we see a little bit of everything. The hospitals are well equipped to care for them. Off campus, students join College physicians at family medicine centers at Milwaukee hospitals, and in the nearby communities of Waukesha and Racine. Patients are also seen at two inner-city locations, the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinic at Capitol Drive, and on Saturday mornings at the Isaac Coggs Clinic for the Uninsured.