Confidence of graduating internal medicine residents to perform ambulatory procedures
Journal of General Internal MedicinePublished 1 June 2000Open access
Glenda C. Wickstrom, Maria M. Kolar, Thomas C. Keyserling, David Kelley, Sharon X. Xie, Bryan A. Bognar
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Though residents in this sample considered most ambulatory procedures important for primary care physicians, they performed them infrequently, if at all, during residency and did not consider their continuity clinic experience helpful for learning these skills.
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Though residents in this sample considered most ambulatory procedures important for primary care physicians, they performed them infrequently, if at all, during residency and did not consider their continuity clinic experience helpful for learning these skills. Training programs need to address this deficiency by modifying the curriculum to ensure that these skills are taught to residents who anticipate a career in primary care medicine.
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