Medical Education: Curriculum and Financing Strategies Needed to Encourage Primary Care TrainingFocuses on characteristics associated with students who are more likely to chose generalist or primary care specialties in medical school, curriculum requirements that expose medical students & residents to primary care training, & the role federal financing plays in setting the focus of medical education. 14 charts & tables |
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95-percent confidence level AAMC Academic Medicine allopathic and osteopathic American Medical Association analyses assignments Associated With Choice attended schools Average Proportion Choice of Primary choosing primary clinical community-based ambulatory settings departments of family factors Family Medicine family practice clerkship family practice departments federal financing generalist rotations Graduate Medical Education Graduation Questionnaire Institutional Characteristics Associated Institutional Variables internal medicine programs logistic regression Medical School Graduates medical service plans medical students Medicare number of students odds ratio osteopathic general practice osteopathic internal medicine osteopathic medical schools Pediatrics Primary percent for osteopathic Percentage Selecting Primary Personal and Institutional primary care careers primary care faculty primary care medicine primary care physicians Primary Care Residency primary care specialties Primary Care Track pursue primary pursue primary care Quartile Required third-year residency programs residency training sampling errors schools with family students attending students who attended survey Track Internal Medicine Traditional Track Internal Traditional Track Pediatrics
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Page 9 - students who attended schools with family practice departments were 57 percent more likely to pursue primary care." In addition, the report goes on to say that "students attending medical schools with more highly funded family practice departments were 18 percent more likely to pursue primary care...
Page 4 - Teaching hospitals are hospitals with one or more graduate medical education programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the American Ostéopathie Association.
Page 46 - How Can We Pay for Graduate Medical Education in Ambulatory Care?
Page 46 - Effect of Early Exposure to Family Medicine on Students' Attitudes Toward the Specialty," Journal of Medical Education, 62 (Nov.
Page 8 - Moreover, the October, 1994 GAO report indicated that "students who attended schools requiring a third-year family practice clerkship were 18 percent more likely to pursue primary care.
Page 40 - ... list of currently participating institutions. Financial data The amounts of the awards vary; in recent years, the average grant has been $201 ,000 per year. The participating institutions determine the amounts they wish to award for traineeships. Duration 3 years. Special features Unlike residencies in internal medicine and pediatrics from which many physicians enter subspecialty training, programs supported by these grants are intended to emphasize continuity and ambulatory, preventive and psychosocial...
Page 48 - D. 1994. Factors influencing the specialty choices of 1993 medical school graduates.
Page 29 - Singer, AM. The Class of 83: A Follow-up Study of 1983 Medical School Graduates Through the First Six Postgraduate Years.
Page 39 - ... dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, and graduate programs in health administration.
Page 31 - Race — Students were classified into the following categories according to how they described themselves in the Graduation Questionnaire: (1) black, not of Hispanic origin, (2) Asian or Pacific Islander, (3) Mexican-American, including other Hispanic or Chicano, (4) white, not of Hispanic origin, and (5) other. • Sex — Students' gender was obtained from the Graduation Questionnaire.