Financing Residency Training Redesign

Residency redesign.

The impact of graduate medical education financing policies on pediatric residency training.

OBJECTIVE To review special issues related to pediatric residency training in managed care organizations, the effects of the changing health care system on the demand for pediatricians and the potential impact on financial support for residency training, current methods of financing graduate medical education (GME), possible future approaches to financing GME, and policy directions to support t...

Professionalism in Residency Training

Professionalism is one of the most important competencies for physicians but is also the most difficult to teach, assess, and manage. To better understand professionalism in pathology, we surveyed practicing pathologists and pathology residents and fellows in training. We identified 12 key desirable attributes of professionalism. In addition, 8 case scenarios highlighting unprofessional behavio...

Public health residency training.

Is DIDN'T KNOW there was such a thing." We have heard this statement repeatedly from intern and practicing physician alike. The "thing" they refer to is the residency program in public health. While residencies in clinical specialties are well known and accepted, such is not the case in the field of public health. Perhaps this is because the specialty is only about 8 years old. By June 30, 1956...

The effects of residency practice redesign on providers and staff.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Practice redesign is one of the core principles of the Patient-centered Medical Home. Little is known about how such large-scale changes in a residency practice affect the providers and staff involved. METHODS Focus groups were conducted with residents, faculty, and medical support staff of a redesigned practice to determine the factors that contributed to the succes...