Object-oriented programming has, in recent years, become the most influential programming paradigm. It is widely used in education and industry, and almost every university teaches object-orientation somewhere in its curriculum. The software community more or less agrees that teaching object-oriented programming is a good thing. It elegantly supports the concepts that we have been trying to tea...

OBJECTIVE This study's objective was to ascertain factors contributing to high retention of community-based sites and their physicians in a 3-decade-old family medicine clerkship. METHODS Focus groups were conducted with community-based physicians from the Medical College of Georgia's family medicine clerkship. Transcripts were analyzed using an iterative process regarding physicians' initial...

Object-oriented programming has, in recent years, become the most influential programming paradigm. It is widely used in education and industry, and almost every university teaches object-orientation somewhere in its curriculum. The software community more or less agrees that teaching object-oriented programming is a good thing. It elegantly supports the concepts that we have been trying to tea...

Like Illness in Southern Sri Lanka L. Gayani Tillekeratne, MD; Champica K. Bodinayake, MBBS, MD, MRCP; Ajith Nagahawatte, MBBS, MD; Dhammika Vidanagama, MBBS, MD; Vasantha Devasiri, MBBS, MD; Wasantha Kodikara Arachchi, MBBS, MD, MRCP, DTM&H; Ruvini Kurukulasooriya, BS, MSc; Dharshan De Silva, PhD; Truls Ostbye, MBBS, MBA, PhD; Megan E. Reller, MD, MPH, PhD; Christopher W. Woods, MD, MPH; Globa...

184 tive workshop for faculty and community preceptors, participants will (1) identify and address barriers to recruitment and retention of community preceptors, (2) identify motivating factors for community preceptors, (3) describe onboarding/orienting community preceptors in this teaching role, (4) demonstrate how to give feedback to students in an outpatient clinical setting, and (5) discuss...

For decades, outpatient teaching has been equated with the outpatient clinic or facility, with brief, discontinuous patient encounters in a variety of settings. In spite of diverse suggested remedies, the result has been a difficult environment for learning and teaching. In addition, medical students possess limited clinical information at the time of their initial physical diagnosis experience...

INTRODUCTION Specific patient care measures and cost of hospitalization are being studied as health care providers and payers are seeking methods to improve the hospital care of patients. This study's purpose was to examine the length of stay and cost of inpatient care by a family medicine teaching service in comparison with the hospitalists' and community physicians' services in the same commu...

Recent reports by Special Olympics International and the U.S. Surgeon General have revealed significant disparities and unmet health needs encountered by persons with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities (MR/DD). Factors contributing to these disparities include deinstitutionalization, increased survival of individuals with MR/DD, lack of appropriately trained providers, and ...