Musculoskeletal medicine in the USA: education and training of family physicians
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Identifying the curricular need for medical students and family medicine residents is a continuing challenge. As educators, we face similar challenges of providing a comprehensive and broad curriculum in medical schools as well as in family medicine residency programs. Post-residency success is then often measured by evaluating board certi cation rates which rely upon individual speciality boards to identify the important knowledge areas. But the question remains; can we do better? When practice and patient characteristics come into view, should we adjust curricula to represent the demand and need for family physician’s expertise? Do we have any quality of care indicators which demonstrate that current curricula and training are either adequate or inadequate? In this paper, I will outline historical and current information that suggests as a speciality, family medicine needs to look closely at current curricular programmes regarding musculoskeletal medicine, and the need for quality of care studies.
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