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The Institute for Community-Based Medicine and Law (Institute) is a collaborative effort of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and The University of Akron School of Law. It is supported primarily by grants and contributions from foundations, associations and individuals. The Institute is strictly nonpartisan and takes no institutional positions on pending legislation or other policy questions.

The Institute provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, improvement of interdisciplinary professional collaboration and problem solving, and promotion of a dialogue between policy makers, practitioners and the public that will further the health of the public and advance the administration of justice. The Institute also serves as a resource for community-based physicians, attorneys and members of the public.

Activities of the Institute include:

• Providing interdisciplinary, collaborative education programs for practicing community-based physicians and attorneys to improve understanding and communication between the professions and to improve patient care and justice;
• Convening collaborative, multi-disciplinary symposia/forums where participants will examine multi-faceted medical legal questions facing community-based practitioners and engage in problem solving on issues where law and community based medicine converge;
• Conducting research and analysis on targeted issues of medical/legal significance to the community-based medical practitioner;
• Publishing "white papers" that deliver unbiased information and analysis about significant community-based medicolegal problems and possible solutions; and
• Developing a compendium of resources for community-based physicians to promote legally sound, effective and efficient business practices that will reduce liability, promote legal compliance, improve efficiency and increase time for clinical, research and teaching activities.