Family medicine
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The complex and unique challenge of academic medicine requires that faculty possess both organizational and leadership skills. This article presents a framework of leadership and organizational skills in family medicine. ⋯ Organizational and leadership development is occurring in the context of both individual and organizational initiatives. We propose a cycle-of-learning framework that provides one model for development of these essential skills.
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Comparative Study
A family medicine teaching program for obstetrics-gynecology residents.
The Harbor-UCLA Family Practice Residency Program has offered a year-long primary care continuity clinic experience to first-year obstetrics-gynecology (OB-GYN) residents since July 1994. This paper describes the teaching programs and compares the experience of the OB-GYN residents to that of family practice (FP) residents in the same clinic site. ⋯ Evaluation of the primary care continuity clinic experience for OB-GYN residents through questionnaires, interviews, and medical records analysis revealed the acceptability, feasibility, and appropriateness of this teaching program for OB-GYN residents. However, not all OB-GYN residents were happy about their relationships with the family medicine faculty. The long-term effectiveness of the experience needs further study.
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Part-time faculty development fellowship programs have trained large numbers of new physician faculty for family medicine education programs. This study reviews data from three part-time fellowship programs to determine how well the programs train new faculty and the academic success of fellowship graduates. ⋯ Part-time fellowship programs have been successful at training and retaining large numbers of new faculty for family medicine.