Research Catalog

Title

Training physicians : the case of internal medicine / Claire H. Kohrman, Ronald M. Andersen, Mary Margaret Clements ; foreword by Gerald S. Levey.

Author

Kohrman, Claire H., 1936-

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Andersen, Ronald.
• Clements, Mary Margaret.

Description

xxxvi, 446 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Hospitals no longer have the range of patients with the health care problems needed for residents to observe the range and evolution of diseases. Recognizing the growing commitment to meet this challenge, the authors describe plans and methods for teaching in ambulatory care settings that incorporate practicing physicians and community hospitals and make internal medicine attractive to students and residents.
• The authors also discuss a number of other vital issues confronting internal medicine, such as reevaluating the role of international medical school graduates who come from diverse educational backgrounds; reassessing how training for internal medicine should be funded; and redefining and expanding the role of the internist in this time of calls for health reform and for expanding primary care.
• The authors explore numerous factors that significantly changed internal medicine training programs. Based on extensive interviews with chairmen, program directors, practitioners, and faculty, the authors show how the economic, legislative, and regulative environment has dramatically changed the hospital environment, shortening hospital stays and shifting care to ambulatory settings.
• This comprehensive volume presents the findings of a five-year study of fifty years' worth of data that detail the scientific, economic, and social factors that influenced and altered the training of internal medicine physicians.

Series Statement

The Jossey-Bass health series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass health series.

Subjects

• Internal medicine > Study and teaching (Graduate)
• Education, Medical, Graduate
• Internal Medicine
• Physicians

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-449) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Gerald S. Levey -- 1. The Ideal Internist and the Real World -- 2. Methods, Sources, and Models -- 3. Historical Perspectives on Training: War, Peace, and Social Movements -- 4. Personal Perspectives: Mentors, Mystery, Money, and Technology -- 5. Professional Perspectives: Practitioners and Academics -- 6. Residencies: Basic Training for the Physician Workforce -- 7. Subspecialties: Growth, Fragmentation, and Balance -- 8. General Internal Medicine -- 9. Geriatrics -- 10. Critical Care -- 11. Recruiting, Training, and Sustaining Residents -- 12. The Special Case of Training in Ambulatory Care -- 13. The Special Case of Integrating Information Technology -- 14. Changing Times: Consequences and Policy Implications -- Resource A: Qualitative Data Sources -- Resource B: Quantitative Data: The National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower (The NaSIMM Surveys) -- Resource C: Historical Data -- Resource D: Internal Medicine Compared to Other Specialties.

ISBN

0787900389

LCCN

94029176

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries