The Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research houses over 100 faculty and includes 20 clinicians with advanced degrees and training in health services research. These individuals specialize in a wide variety of areas including access to care, quality of care, measurement, physician education, clinical ethics and communication. A dedicated statistician is located in the division as well as a psychometrician and health economist. In addition, this group has a close working relationship with the more than 70 clinicians in general internal medicine at UCLA and more than 350 clinicians throughout the Department of Medicine. These faculty have close working relationships with economists, statisticians, social scientists and other specialists throughout the institution and at RAND.
