PREPARING PHYSICIANS FOR CAREERS IN PRIMARY-CARE INTERNAL-MEDICINE - 17 YEARS OF RESIDENCY EXPERIENCE

Authors
PEREZ JC BRICKNER PW RAMIS CM
Citation
Jc. Perez et al., PREPARING PHYSICIANS FOR CAREERS IN PRIMARY-CARE INTERNAL-MEDICINE - 17 YEARS OF RESIDENCY EXPERIENCE, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 74(1), 1997, pp. 20-30
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00287091
Volume
74
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
20 - 30
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-7091(1997)74:1<20:PPFCIP>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The objective of this survey was to demonstrate whether a primary care track internal medicine residency program emphasizing community-based health care of the urban sick poor trains physicians who will continu e to practice in general internal medicine or similar fields. Thirty-f ive primary care residents (100% of graduates) who trained from 1976 t hrough 1993 in the Adult Primary Care Track of the Internal Medicine R esidency Program at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York were used as a pa rticipants.