INNOVATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY TRAINING

Fixing family medicine residency training.

The number of US medical students entering family medicine continues to decline. Despite the increased presence of family physicians on medical school faculty and increased exposure to family medicine during training, students still cite lack of respect and excessive knowledge base to master as reasons for not choosing our specialty. Specific changes must be made to family medicine residency tr...

Conscientious refusal in family medicine residency training.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Conscientious refusal among physicians to provide medical care is known to exist. The prevalence of conscientious refusal in residents and behaviors surrounding moral objections is largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of moral objections among family medicine residents and faculty members and to identify beliefs and actions surround...

Residency applicants' perspectives on family medicine residency training length.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Future of Family Medicine report advocated experimentation with 4-year residency training models. This study examines residency applicants' opinions about extending the length of residency training and seeks to determine which features of an extended program would be most desirable to applicants. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive, self-administe...

The integrative family medicine program: an innovation in residency education.

The Integrative Family Medicine (IFM) Program is a four-year combined family medicine residency program and integrative medicine fellowship. It was created in 2003 to address the needs of four constituencies: patients who desire care from well trained integrative physicians, physicians who seek such training, the health care system which lacks a conventional integrative medicine training route,...

Innovation in rural family medicine training: the Mountain Area Health Education Center's rural-track residency program.