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Training physicians : the case of internal medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kohrman, Claire H., 1936-
Other Authors: Andersen, Ronald, Clements, Mary Margaret
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1994]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Jossey-Bass health series.
Subjects:
Education, Medical, Graduate.
Internal Medicine.
Physicians.
Table of Contents:
  • Issues and methods
  • Ideal internist and the real world
  • Methods, sources and models
  • Perspectives on training in internal medicine
  • Historical perspectives on training: war, peace and social movements
  • Personal perspectives: mentors, mystery, money and technology
  • Professional perspectives: practitioners and academics
  • Growth and change in training programs, 1976 to 1993
  • Residencies: basic training for the physician workforce
  • Subspecialities: growth, fragmentation and balance
  • General internal medicine
  • Geriatrics
  • Critical care.
  • Current challenges
  • Recruiting, training and sustaining residents
  • Special case of training in ambulatory care
  • Special case of integrating information technology
  • Changing times: consequences and policy implications
  • Resources
  • Qualitative data sources
  • Quantitative data: the national study of internal medicine manpower (the NaSIMM surveys)
  • Historical data
  • Internal medicine compared to other specialities.