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Primary Care Doesn't Detract From Training.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. -- The establishment of primary care training requirements for ob.gyn. residency programs hasn't interfered with the training residents have received in several obstetric and gynecologic procedures, Dr. Hal C. Lawrence III reported at the annual meeting of the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Since 1996, when the 6-month primary care requirement for residency training was established, "I can't tell you the number of times I was told that we were taking away surgical experience in gynecology. [But] the data don't show that," said Dr. Lawrence, a member of the Residency Review Committee and director of the ob.gyn. residency program at the Mountain Area Health Education Center, Asheville, N.C.
In a study examining the national median figures for the number of times ob.gyns. are exposed to certain clinical presentations or procedures, it's clear that "the experiences are essentially the same or maybe even a little higher, whether it's an abdominal hysterectomy or laparotomy."
The number of times the average resident was exposed to laparoscopic surgery (not including tubal ligations) was 47 in 1997 and 50 in 2000. Experience in performing hysteroscopy, conization, sterilization, and breast aspiration ...
- Primary care and ophthalmology in the United Kingdom. (Perspective).
- Magazine article from: British Journal of Ophthalmology Riad, S.F. Dart, J.K.G. Cooling, R.J. April 1, 2003 700+ words
The National Health Service is now primary care led. There are different definitions for primary care and in this review they are analysed and...produce a working definition for ophthalmic primary care, summarised as the provision of first...
- Primary care quality and addiction severity: a prospective cohort...
- Magazine article from: Health Services Research Kim, Theresa W. Samet, Jeffrey H. Cheng, Debbie M. Winter, Michael R. Safran, Dana Gelb Saitz, Richard April 1, 2007 700+ words
Primary care is being asked to expand its role in...Health 2003). Training sessions for primary care physicians and clinical reminders have...Pharmacological therapies are now available in primary care for the treatment of opioid dependence...
- Primary care in the United States: getting more academic but needs greater...
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Groves, Trish Roberts, John October 19, 1996 700+ words
...greater cooperation between family physicians and primary care internists Primary care is on the up in the United States. Despite...believe what governments know worldwide--that primary care delivered by generalist doctors is the most...
- Primary care in the US: not first choice. (News & Political Review)
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Roberts, John February 29, 1992 700+ words
Primary care practice is not the first choice of...initiatives. Determining the number of primary care doctors in the US is difficult because...family medicine -- is fully dedicated to primary care. But many internists, paediatricians...
- Primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral...
- Magazine article from: Annals of Family Medicine Gallo, Joseph J. Zubritsky, Cynthia Maxwell, James Nazar, Michael Bogner, Hillary R. Quijano, Louise M. Syropoulos, Heidi J. Cheal, Karen L. Chen, Hongtu Sanchez, Herman Dodson, John Levkoff, Sue E. July 1, 2004 700+ words
...health services for older adults in primary care improves health outcomes. No study...depression and other conditions. METHOD The Primary Care Research in Substance Abuse and Mental...care with enhanced referral care in primary care settings across the United States...
- Primary Care, LLC Becomes Provider for Secure Horizons, Tufts Health Plan For...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 6, 1996 700+ words
...NORWELL, Mass., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Primary Care, LLC, Massachusetts' largest primary care physician organization (PO), today signed...ever single signature contract between a primary care, physician-owned provider network and...
- Primary Care Professionals: Recent Supply Trends, Projections, and Valuation of...
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony March 1, 2008 700+ words
...Health Service Act goes toward primary care medicine and dentistry training...increase the total supply of primary care professionals, health care marketplace...signals suggest an undervaluing of primary care medicine, creating a concern...
- PRIMARY CARE AND MIDWIVES: AN INTERNATIONAL LOOK.
- Magazine article from: Midwifery Today McLean, Marion Toepke June 22, 2001 700+ words
...considered by the women they serve as their primary care practitioners. Many healthy young women...degree to which midwives can practice primary care is limited by the law and by their own...in Washington D. C. has defined primary care as integrated, accessible, and provided...
- Measuring primary care practice performance within an integrated delivery...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Healthcare Management Stewart, Louis J. Wagner, Robert F. Greisler, David July 1, 2002 700+ words
...performance measurement system to plan and control primary care service delivery within an integrated delivery...examination through a case study of the WMG Primary Care Medicine Group, the primary care medical group practice of WellSpan Health...
- MedPAC: primary care is undervalued.(News)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Ault, Alicia April 1, 2008 700+ words
WASHINGTON -- Saying that primary care is undervalued, the Medicare...Congress increase payment for primary care and pilot test a medical home...Medicare fee schedule upward for primary care and to start a medical home pilot...
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