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Health services administration continues-to evolve in response to envi
ronmental changes in reimbursement, technology, demographics, and heal
th care reform. These changes encourage further integration of busines
s skills in health services, an emphasis which often conflicts with th
e perspectives of clinicians. The balance between business and clinica
l perspectives must be developed such that administrators and clinicia
ns foster the survival and growth of their organizations while assurin
g comprehensive and quality health services to patients and the commun
ity. This paper describes education in health services administration,
and uses a survey of one program's graduates to assess the usefulness
of the current educational model in balancing business and clinical p
erspectives.