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State governments support medical schools in their states for various reasons. A major reason is the perception that graduates tend to practice in the state where they attend medical school. In a study reported here, the authors examined this assumption by investigating the experience of physicians currently active in medical practice. The entire population of active U.S. physicians who graduated from U.S. medical schools was examined, as well as four selected cohorts of U.S. medical school graduates, using the American Medical Associations' Physician Masterfile. The ability of states to retain their medical school graduates is related to physician characteristics (age, medical school, and practice specialty) as well as to state characteristics (population, physician-to-population ratio, and per capita income). The results indicate that, overall, the argument that states should support medical schools in order to ensure an adequate supply of physicians is less compelling than in the past, for reasons often beyond the control of the individual states.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

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No abstract available.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

No abstract available.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

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Recognizing the need for adequate representation of minorities in the health field, many professional schools initiated special recruitment efforts to attract minority students and developed programs to provide academic enrichment. Between 1971 and 1977, 480 black and Hispanic high school students from four inner-city schools in Los Angeles participated in the Med-COR Program (Medical Counseling, Organizing, and Recruiting) at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. The program was designed to increase the number of minority health professionals by offering enriched courses in the sciences and field experience in hospitals and laboratories. The positive results of a follow-up of 480 Med-COR students support the rationale that the number of minority health professionals can be increased by high school recruitment programs.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

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The purpose of the study on which this article was based was to examine the effectiveness of training simulated patients with self-instructional materials. A six-hour program consisting of eight videotapes and 10 sets of written materials was administered to 54 trainees. Pretest and posttest score comparisons revealed an increase in knowledge about simulation. Most of the trainees (91 percent) stated that the simulation training program increased their competencies in portraying patients. Most important, simulators with the self-instructional training received higher ratings from trainers on their ability to evaluate students than did simulators in the control group.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

New York County physicians were surveyed by questionnaire concerning their attitudes and practices regarding continuing medical education (CME). There were 1,558 responders, and they included those practicing in shared health facilities (SHF) and random samples of academicians on the faculties of the four medical schools and of the entire physician population of Manhattan. Reading professional books and journals was regarded as by far the most important CME activity by all three groups of physicians, and this activity consumed about four hours per week. All physicians spent several days and often as much as two weeks per year attending professional meetings and formal postgraduate courses. The former were rated as not very useful and the latter as quite useful for CME. Major impediments to CME participation for all groups were time away from home and practice, expense, loss of income, and scheduling problems. Relevance, quality, and organization of CME courses were not major impediments. SHF physicians differed little from other physicians in their attitudes, perceptions, and practices concerning CME.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

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The use of patients as instructors in teaching medical students and physicians the musculoskeletal examination has proven to be an effective method of learning. However, the effect on the patient instructors (PIs) of their intensive training and the numerous physical examinations made of them has been unknown. In this study, eight patients with stable rheumatoid arthritis were given the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Assessment (TJTA) when they were recruited as PIs and every six months thereafter for two years. Individual interviews focusing on the changes taking place in the patient instructors' lives were also conducted. Three PIs left the program early in their training. Observed changes in TJTA scores were frequently positive for the five who remained in the study. Interview results indicate positive changes in terms of confidence, competence, and emotional stability. All five PIs have continued in their role as PIs and have also expanded into other responsibilities. It is concluded that the patient instructor program was certainly not harmful to the individual PIs and, in fact, was mostly beneficial to them as well as to physicians and medical students.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

No abstract available.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

No abstract available.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

No abstract available.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1982

数据来源: OVID