Article Green Open Access 1987

Practice preferences of primary medical care and traditional internal medicine house officers

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Palchik, Nancy S.
 DT
Dielman, Ted E.
 WJ
Woolliscroft, James O.
 SJ
Stross, Jeoffrey K.
Medical Education
Journal · Vol. 21 · Issue 5 · pp. 441-449
Abstract

Summary. In an academic medical centre between 1980 and 1985, the attitudes, preferences and career goals of house officers in a primary medical care residency training programme were assessed at entry and at the end of each house officer year. Primary care trainees who went on to practise in a general medicine setting were compared to primary care trainees who subsequently received subspecialty training and also to traditional internal medicine trainees. House officers in the primary care programme generally maintained attitudes and preferences central to the practice of primary care, and scored significantly higher than traditional track house officers on attitudes and preferences compatible with the practice of medicine in a primary care setting. However, primary care house officers who later went into subspecialty training received scores similar to those of traditional track house officers on practice preferences relating to specialty care. There were no significant differences between primary care and traditional track house officers on standard measures of knowledge and clinical skill. 1987 Blackwell Publishing

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Author Keywords

clinical competence goals *attitude of health personnel *internship *Primary health care internal medicine/*educ Michigan

Index Keywords

human medical education psychological aspect education residency education normal human internal medicine attitude organization and management methodology education program theoretical study primary health care psychiatry short survey house officer
Author Affiliations
Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Funding & Acknowledgements
No funding information
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