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A B Davis

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Generalist courses in US medical schools and their relationship to career choice.

We conducted a survey of required first-year generalist courses offered by US medical schools during 1980, 1985, and 1990 to see if significant growth had occurred in this curricular area and to determine if the presence of these courses was associated with an increase in the percent of graduates selecting family practice as a career option. During the 1980s, only two types of generalist courses were offered by more than 50% of US medical schools, clinical experience and human behavior/psychiatry courses, with significant growth occurring in only two types of generalist courses, ethics and medical humanities courses. The presence of a required clinical experience course in 1985 was associated with a 2% increase in the number of graduates selecting family practice as a career option in 1988.

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Infectious vaginitis.

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Medical foster family care: a cost-effective solution to a community problem.

In response to the special needs of a small number of abused and neglected children who were being cared for by unnecessary extended hospitalization, a medical foster family care program was established, at much lower cost, to provide the children with a home environment and assist their parents so that family reunification was possible.

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Required first-year generalist clinical experience courses and their relationship to career choice: the critical effect of family medicine involvement.

BACKGROUND: This study examines the relationships among the presence of a required first-year generalist clinical experience (RFGCE) course, family medicine involvement in such courses, and the percentage of 1993 medical school graduates who chose family practice as a career upon graduation. METHODS: A prospective cohort study measured predictor variables in 1989, the presence of a required third-year family medicine clerkship in 1991, and the outcome variable in 1993. RESULTS: Data were collected from 122 US 4-year medical schools. Eighty-seven (71.3%) of 122 medical schools had RFGCE courses. In schools with courses and family medicine administrative units, family physicians were involved to some extent in most of these courses (88%). After controlling for type of medical school, the requirement of a third-year family medicine clerkship, and the involvement of a family medicine administrative unit, the presence of an RFGCE course was associated with a 3.5% increase in the number of students who selected a family practice career. This is a 28% increase on average over the mean percentage of medical students choosing a family practice career in 1993. However, in a second analysis, when all predictor variables were entered into the equation, family medicine involvement in such courses replaced the presence of such courses as a statistically significant predictor of medical students selecting family practice as a career. CONCLUSIONS: Family physicians are involved to some extent in the great majority of RFGCE courses. Such involvement is associated with an increase in the number of medical students selecting a family practice career upon graduation from medical school.

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