Medical Student Summer Externship Program: Increasing the Number Matching in Family Practice

Medical Student Summer Externship Program: Increasing the Number Matching in Family Practice.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The number of US allopathic medical school graduates choosing a residency in family medicine has fallen from 13.4% in 1999 to 10.5% in 2002. Concern about declining numbers has led to the development of programs to provide medical students exposure to family medicine outside the clerkship. This paper reports on the development and longitudinal achievements of a clinica...

The medical student summer research program in family medicine.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A variety of clinical research training programs exist throughout the United States, although little is known about their methods, content, and outcomes. This report describes a model of clinical research training designed to teach medical students research processes in family medicine, while yielding data for research studies. Authors present a description and evaluat...

Medical school graduates entering family medicine: increasing the overall number.

Results of the 1997 National Resident Matching Program: family practice.

The 1997 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) results reveal all-time highs for the number of positions filled in family practice residencies (2,905) and the number of positions filled with US seniors (2,340). This is the largest number of US seniors choosing family practice in the history of the NRMP. Of the 65 additional positions filled through the NRMP, compared with 1996 (2,905 versus...

NNC Student Summer Research Support Program Report

This report presents the studies carried out on two modifications suggested in the literature for Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The modifications are applicable to feed-forward neural networks. One modification [18], made on performance index, reduces computational complexity of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, while the other one [17], made on calculation of the gradient information, improv...