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Medical students frequently have questions about the specialty of family practice. Responses to 30 questions commonly asked about family practice are presented with a review of recent literature. These responses may assist medical students and their advisors in considering the choice of family practice as a career.
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The University of Wisconsin Medical School has operated an intensive, elective, three-month family practice clerkship since 1980. Beginning in 1981, a computerized, sampling instrument has been used to generate measures of the continuity and comprehensiveness of care being learned by the students and the clinical content of the students' experience. This tool has proved useful for motivating students and faculty members to concentrate on the factors of continuity and comprehensiveness in the clerkship experience. The data collected regarding the students' activities are presented here.
This communication proposes a simple measure of the size of the family unit as perceived by the family physician. Use of the measure as an index for monitoring one's own practice is briefly discussed.
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The Department of Family Medicine and Practice at the University of Wisconsin has designed and conducted an academically intensive third-year three-month family practice clerkship based in private practice settings. This experience differs from more traditional preceptorships in the amount of academic structure and quality control applied to the student's learning experience. This clerkship has demonstrated that extramural experiences can be as academically intensive and carefully monitored as traditional, referral-hospital-based clerkships in family practice or other basic medical disciplines. Increases in the level of continuity of care occur over the entire 12 weeks.
During their medical school years medical students are frequently exposed to misinformation about family practice from faculty members in other specialties. Responses to 26 questions frequently asked by medical students about family practice are presented with a review of recent literature. These responses may assist medical students and their advisors when considering careers in family practice.
Previous studies of the content of family practice have analyzed the discipline in terms of the clinical problem content. Taking a different approach, a study group analyzed the care given to patients by family physicians irrespective of the specific clinical problems. Working with a reference group of family physicians in private practice, ten central elements were identified: (1) comprehensiveness of care, (2) anticipation of problems and continuity of care, (3) personal relationships with a patient, (4) medical knowledge and skills characteristic of family medicine, (5) values and attitudes that enhance family medicine, (6) problem definition and medical decision making, (7) problem management and resource coordination, (8) care of the individual within the family context, (9) involvement with the community, and (10) attentiveness to practice organization. This study provides a different point of departure for the design and evaluation of educational programs in family practice.
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