Training physicians : the case of internal medicine
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Training physicians : the case of internal medicine
(Jossey-Bass health series)
Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1994
1st ed
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-449) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This comprehensive volume presents the findings of a five-year study of fifty years' worth of data that detail the scientific, economic, and social factors that influenced and altered the training of internal medicine physicians. The authors explore numerous factors that significantly changed internal medicine training programs. Based on extensive interviews with chairmen, program directors, practitioners, and faculty, the authors show how the economic, legislative, and regulative environment has dramatically changed the hospital environment, shortening hospital stays and shifting care to ambulatory settings. Hospitals no longer have the range of patients with the health care problems needed for residents to observe the range and evolution of diseases. Recognizing the growing commitment to meet this challenge, the authors describe plans and methods for teaching in ambulatory care settings that incorporate practicing physicians and community hospitals and make internal medicine attractive to students and residents. The authors also discuss a number of other vital issues confronting internal medicine, such as reevaluating the role of international medical school graduates who come from diverse educational backgrounds; reassessing how training for internal medicine should be funded; and redefining and expanding the role of the internist in this time of calls for health reform and for expanding primary care.
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