Stephen S. Mick, Ph.D., FACHE

Arthur Graham Glasgow Professor and Chair

Department of Health Administration
School of Allied Health Professions
Medical College of Virginia Campus
Virginia Commonwealth University
PO BOX 980203
1008 East Clay Street
Richmond, VA 23298

804.828.9466 (V)
804.828.1894 (F)
Email Address: ssmick@vcu.edu

Education

Yale

Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology

Research/Teaching Areas

Dr. Mick's current teaching responsibilities include HAD 602, "The Health Services System," and HAD 702, "Health Care Financing, Organization, and Delivery Systems." Other teaching interests include health care management and organization, rural health and health services, and comparative national systems. His research interests include the health care workforce--particularly international medical graduates (IMGs), rural health care, and the relation between health care resources, use of services, and health status.

Awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Dr. Mick spent the 1993-94 academic year in France studying rural hospitals. He has been a consultant to the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME). During his career, Dr. Mick has taught health administration at Yale University, Oklahoma University, the University of Washington, the Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan, where he directed the Doctoral Program in Health Services Organization and Policy. From 1997 through 1999, he was a delegate to annual meetings of the International Medical Workforce Conference. Dr. Mick is currently serving a four-year term as the Chairperson of the Health Systems Research study section of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He is also on the Advisory Council of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis.

Dr. Mick serves as a Commissioner for the Commission on Accreditation for Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).  He is a member of the board of the Coalition for Health Services Research, and he is the 2007 Co-Chair of the Program Planning Committee for the Annual Meeting of the Association for University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA). 

Current Projects

Under contract from the Virginia Department of Health, Dr. Mick and his research group are developing estimates of the requirements for physicians for the years 2010 and 2015.  This work should provide state policy makers and other interested parties with a new assessment of the probable trends in primary care and specialty care medicine in the Commonwealth.

Dr. Mick is also working with Laura L. Morlock, Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins University, on a follow-up study of some 1,000 rural hospitals to determine the outcome of two decades of changing federal and state reimbursement policies and of market forces on hospital performance and survival. Funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, this study will be the most comprehensive assessment of rural hospital activities since Mick and Morlock's earlier work in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Publications

Books

Mick, S.S., Wyttenbach, M., and Associates, Advances in Health Care Organization Theory, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., Publishers, in preparation, February 2003.

Wyszewianski, L. and Mick, S.S. (Eds.), Medical Care Chartbook, Ninth Edition, Ann Arbor: Health Administration Press, Fall 1991.

Mick, S.S., and Associates, Innovations in Health Care Delivery: Insights for Organization Theory, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, September 1990.

Stevens, R.A., Goodman, L.W., and Mick, S.S. The Alien Doctors: Foreign Medical Graduates in American Hospitals, New York: Wiley-Interscience Publications, 1978.

Book Chapters

Mick, S.S., and White, K.R. “Health Care Professionals,” in Stephen J. Williams and Paul R. Torrens (Eds.), Introduction to Health Services, 6th Edition, Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers Inc., to appear 2007.

Mick, S.S. “Health Care Professionals,” in Stephen J. Williams and Paul R. Torrens (Eds.), Introduction to Health Services, 5th Edition, Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers Inc., 1999, pp. 403-435.

Council on Graduate Medical Education. Eleventh Report: International Medical Graduates, the Physician Workforce, and GME Payment Reform, (HSRA-97-38), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 1998. (Authored much of pp. 3-20).

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Journal Articles (Published or Accepted for Publication)

Mick, S.S., and Mark, B.A., “The Contribution of Organization Theory to Nursing Health Services Research,” Nursing Outlook, 53(6), 2005, 317-323.

Mick, S.S., “The Physician “Surplus” and the Decline of Professional Dominance,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 29(4-5), 2004, pp.907-924.

Mick, S.S., “Must We Broaden the Definition of Health Services Administration? A Response to the Final Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force,” Journal of Health Administration Education, 21(2), 2004, pp. 173-177.

Mick, S.S. "Development of Current Faculty in Evidence- Based Health Care Management Research and Teaching," Journal of Health Administration Education, 20(4), 2003, to appear.

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Letters, Editorials, and Commentary

Mick, S.S. “Commentary: The Future of Rural Hospitals in the United States,” Health Care Management Review, 21(2):26-28, 1996.

Mick, S.S. “Rural Communities and the Crisis of Hospital Closure: A Comment on ‘Physician Perspectives on the Causes of Rural Hospital Closure, 1980-88,’” Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, Nov-Dec, 1993.

Mick, S.S. “Balancing the FMG Debate,” Health Affairs, 7(1):155-156, Spring 1988.

“The Mix of FMGs and USFMGs: Mick and Worobey Respond,” American Journal of Public Health, 74(12):1421-1422, December 1984.

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