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Gaps In Residency Training Should Be Addressed To Better Prepare Doctors For A Twenty-First-Century Delivery System
- Source :
- Health Affairs. 30:2142-2148
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2011.
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Abstract
- Many observers have been concerned about a mismatch between the knowledge, skills, and professional values of newly trained physicians and the requirements of current and future medical practice. We surveyed and interviewed Kaiser Permanente's clinical department chiefs for internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, and obstetrics/gynecology to ascertain their views of the perceived gaps in the readiness of newly trained physicians. Nearly half of those surveyed reported deficiencies among new physicians in managing routine conditions or performing simple procedures often encountered in office-based practice. A third of the chiefs noted deficiencies in coordinating care for patients. Filling these and other training gaps will require changes at many levels-from residency programs to Medicare reimbursement policies-to better prepare new physicians for the challenges of working in a health care system evolving to emphasize accountability, quality outcomes, cost control, and information technology.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Health Policy
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Twenty-First Century
MEDLINE
Internship and Residency
Information technology
History, 21st Century
Interviews as Topic
Health Care Surveys
Family medicine
Accountability
Health care
Humans
Medicine
Quality (business)
Delivery system
business
Delivery of Health Care
Residency training
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15445208 and 02782715
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Health Affairs
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2b5a003d8419ccc4750706776dbb320c