Prevalence, Plans, and Perceptions: Disability in Family Medicine Residencies

Family planning training in US family medicine residencies.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family planning is among the most common services family physicians provide. Evidence that family doctors are not offering the broadest range of these services prompted this study of family planning training in family medicine residency programs. METHODS This study was a cross-sectional survey of program directors and chief residents at US family medicine residencies...

Research funding and mentoring in family medicine residencies.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's purpose was to measure the current status of research funding and mentoring in family medicine residencies and to ascertain what resources are needed to increase residencies' research output. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of family medicine residency program directors in the United States. We measured grant funding sources, availability of me...

An emerging epidemic of innovation in family medicine residencies.

Research participation, protected time, and research output by family physicians in family medicine residencies.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Future of Family Medicine project concluded that research must become a greater part of the culture of the specialty. We examined the participation of family physician residency faculty in research, their protected time, and their research output and how these varied by program type. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of all family medicine residency progr...

Teaching lower gastrointestinal endoscopy: a comparison of family medicine and internal medicine residencies.

Lower gastrointestinal endoscopy (LGIE) is an important procedure in primary care for detecting colorectal cancer. This survey of family practice (FP) and internal medicine (IM) residency directors in the southeastern United States shows that 100 percent of FP and 92 percent of IM programs provide training in LGIE. Less than half of all programs had certification criteria, and both disciplines ...