The Future of Family Medicine project calls for transformation of medical practices to a " New Model " to meet challenges facing the discipline of family medicine. 1 While certain components of the New Model have been developed and tested by innovators, 2-4 the barriers of cost, cultural issues, technology problems, and lack of well-defined reimbursement mechanisms have slowed the diffusion of ...

OBJECTIVE To assess current practices and attitudes toward teaching humanistic and psychosocial aspects of care in internal medicine residency programs. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Survey questionnaires were sent to residency directors at all 434 internal medicine residency programs accredited in 1985-1986. Response rate for two mailings was 71%. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS 78% OF RESIDENCY D...

Developing a comprehensive and robust curriculum for residency programs in clinical pathology (CP; also known as laboratory medicine) has been a goal for residency program directors for many years. Although there are many excellent training programs in CP, it is well recognized by faculty and residents that CP training is usually the weakest area of most combined training programs. The proposal...

IMPORTANCE JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps commentaries are intended to aid in the interpretation of the literature to make it more practical and applicable to daily patient care. Practice Gaps commentaries have had an impact on physician clinical practice and dermatology residency curricula. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps commentaries on dermatology residency...

CONTEXT Little is known about the incorporation of integrative medicine (IM) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into family medicine residency programs. OBJECTIVE The Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) approved a set of CAM/IM competencies for family medicine residencies. We hope to evaluate whether residency programs are implementing such competencies into their cur...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSES In response to the new Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandate for residency programs to use feedback to improve its educational program, we piloted a novel evaluation strategy of a residency program using structured interviews of resident graduates working in a primary care practice and their physician associates. METHODS A research assist...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Ten years after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) mandate that residency programs evaluate learners' competency, research is needed to guide efforts to meet this challenge. During an innovative residency redesign, the authors developed a process to effectively measure "competence." This particular family medicine residency admits six re...

BACKGROUND One of the goals of plastic surgery residency programs is to provide effective training in aesthetic surgery. Recently, programs have adopted the idea of chief clinics to provide senior residents with the opportunity to perform cosmetic surgery with an increased level of autonomy. The goal of this article is to characterize chief clinics currently in place and their usefulness in pro...

OBJECTIVE Smokers with mental illness and addictive disorders account for nearly one in two cigarettes sold in the United States and are at high risk for smoking-related deaths and disability. Psychiatry residency programs provide a unique arena for disseminating tobacco treatment guidelines, influencing professional norms, and increasing access to tobacco cessation services among smokers with ...