Mounting evidence supports the need for more primary care physicians to care for an expanding, aging, and insured population. The U.S. primary care physician workforce is composed of graduates from both domestic and international medical schools. Trends in training, recruitment, and practice have policy and ethical implications. We used the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile to e...

OBJECTIVES Following earlier research which showed that certain types of physicians are more likely to be sued for malpractice, this study explored (1). whether graduates of certain medical schools have consistently higher rates of lawsuits against them, (2). if the rates of lawsuits against physicians are associated with their school of graduation, and (3). whether the characteristics of the m...

In April 1991, the Malawi College of Medicine opened its doors to Malawi medical students who had undertaken all but the final year of their undergraduate training in the United Kingdom. The first batch qualified with the MB BS degrees of the University of Malawi in September 1992. Since then and up to July 1998, 112 doctors have been produced. They are all Malawians, 90 males and 22 females, 2...

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OBJECTIVE  To determine whether patient outcomes differ between general internists who graduated from a medical school outside the United States and those who graduated from a US medical school. DESIGN  Observational study. SETTING  Medicare, USA. PARTICIPANTS  20% national sample of data for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 years or older admitted to hospital with a medical...

INTRODUCTION Evidence on personality traits change implies it should be studied as an outcome and not only as an explanatory effect. Therefore, we aimed to assess how personality and academic achievement sway each other. Three cohorts of medical students (n = 181) comprised of school leavers and graduates, completed NEO-FFI when admitted (baseline) and later on medical training (follow-up). Pre...

INTRODUCTION This study is based on the metaphor of the 'rural pipeline' into medical practice. The four stages of the rural pipeline are: (1) contact between rural secondary schools and the medical profession; (2) selection of rural students into medical programs; (3) rural exposure during medical training; and (4) measures to address retention of the rural medical workforce. METHODS Using t...

INTRODUCTION In this study, we compared the choice of medical specialty and subspecialty interest among problem-based-learning (PBL) graduates and non-PBL graduates. MATERIALS AND METHODS Questionnaires were mailed to a total of 1398 female doctors who graduated from Tokyo Women's Medical University (TWMU) between 1989 and 2003. The response rate was over 30%, giving 248 respondents who had u...

OBJECTIVE To compare the demographic and educational characteristics of Canadian international medical graduates (IMGs) and immigrant IMGs who applied to the second iteration of the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) match in 2002. DESIGN Web-based questionnaire survey. SETTING The study was conducted during the second-iteration CaRMS match in Canada. PARTICIPANTS The sampling fra...

To the Editor:—I read with keen interest the article published in the September 2001 issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY entitled “The Anesthesiologist in Critical Care Medicine,” especially since I am currently enrolled in a critical care fellowship after having completed my anesthesiology residency. I agree for the most part with the positions of the authors, especially regarding the profound difference ...