Education
Community-based teaching | Graduate medical education | Internal medicine curriculum | Match | Overseas education | Recertification | Miscellaneous | Columns by Frank Davidoff, MACP
Community-based teaching
.How to make teaching in the office more time efficient
Developing a teaching culture that doesn't interfere with the practice's business goals. (July-August 2003)
One man's effort to teach cradle-to-grave patient care (Annual Session News 2002)
Community-based teaching: good for medicine and community
The program better prepares internists for life outside hospital wards (July/August 1998)
How teaching students affected me—and my patients
Not only did patients enjoy seeing their doctor in a teaching role, at times they even felt like educators themselves (November 1997)
Help! There's a medical student in my office
Preceptors learn that to be effective, their teaching methods have to be adapted for the ambulatory setting (October 1995)
Graduate medical education
.Women trail men in top academic posts. (December 2006)
Work hour rules rile educators—and residents
Forced to watch the clock, some housestaff say they feel 'cheated' out of chances to learn. (October 2003)
Tips to teach young physicians about more than just disease
How chief residents and educators can make the most of teaching opportunities and encourage professionalism (Annual Session News 2003)
Letters
Members share their views on liability insurance and attracting students to internal medicine (February 2003)
What can internal medicine do to attract more students to careers in primary care?
Concerns about income and lifestyle are driving some students away from the specialty (December 2002)
A coming shortage of foreign-trained doctors?
Residencies have enough IMGs, but some see trouble ahead (September 2001)
At risk: Medicare funding for GME
Why educators are nervous about a proposal to move GME funding (March 1999)
Managed care and academia join to build 'teaching HMOs'
Medical schools want to train students to work with managed care, while HMOs see a marketing opportunity (April 1995)
Internal medicine curriculum
.ACP supports debt relief for geriatricians in training. (July-August 2004)
College releases electronic curriculum guide (July-August 2002)
Internal medicine's new curriculum
FCIM's guide for educators will be voluntary, but it is making waves (September 1996)
Why internal medicine needs a collaborative curriculum
A comprehensive curriculum is needed to help us make sense of the breadth of knowledge, to set priorities and to respond to change (September 1996)
Why the FCIM curriculum document—and why now (September 1996)
Match
.Match: Internal medicine still lukewarm draw for grads
Lifestyle, income and mentoring concerns remain the chief reasons for the strong appeal of subspecialties. (May 2006)
In the Match, internal medicine sees slight uptick in U.S. graduates
After sliding for several years, the number of U.S. seniors matching to internal medicine residencies is again on the rise. (May 2004)
Letters
Members discuss changing the College's name, recent Match results, diuretics and e-consults. (July-August 2003)
In this year's Match, internal medicine continues to lose U.S. graduates
Internal medicine continued its six-year slide in the Match, due in part to students concerns about income and lifestyle. (May 2003)
Pay and hours driving losses in this year's Match
Hardest hit were primary internal medicine and med-peds tracks. (May 2002)
Match shows continuing decline in primary care
While internal medicine programs saw a 1.5% decrease, family medicine residencies took a 17% hit (May 2001)
Third consecutive loss in the Match has primary care asking questions
Internal medicine appears stable, but it posts a small decline (May 2000)
Match results: a 'blip' or a trend?
Internal medicine held its own—barely—but educators still optimistic (May 1999)
Overseas education
.Travel makes medical education a little less foreign
U.S. students find ways to broaden their horizons
Bringing lessons from the heartland to the homeland (October 2007)
How the College is helping Russian health care
The College's Eurasian Medical Education Program trains physicians who in turn train others (December 2001)
How we can help Russian physicians help themselves
A new College effort will teach doctors how to treat chronic diseases that plague their country (September 1998)
Poor conditions—but hope—in post-Communist Albania
Reflections from a physician who spent nine months on a Fulbright lectureship in Albania (December 1995)
Recertification
.MKSAP option part of enhanced recertification program
New modules will give immediate feedback about whether the answer is right or wrong. (April 2005)
College and ABIM outline ongoing evolution in recertification
Recent discussions between ACP and the ABIM have led to new options for recertifying physicians and a rapid evolution in the recertification process. (September 2004)
The forces driving recertification in internal medicine. (April 2004)
ACP and ABIM launch pilot CME project for Practice Improvement Modules. (March 2004)
Need help recertifying? (March 2004)
College's efforts to streamline the recertification process
Recent gains include tests offered via computer and a new member benefit to help answer recertification questions. (January-February 2004)
Board exams about to make the move to computers. (November 2003)
A look at ABIM, recertification and quality measures
The Board's new leader says the specialty needs to take the lead in measuring physicians before someone else does. (October 2003)
College, ABIM are working together on recertification
The organizations' leaders describe how a new agreement will help them cooperate (January 2003)
College, ABIM reach new agreement on recertification
In the future, internists will be able to get credit for answering MKSAP questions and take the exam via computer (December 2002)
As a measure of physician competence, recertification receiving mixed response
Some internists, along with hospitals and health plans, are opting out of the process. (November 2002)
Strategies to help you prepare for recertification
Physicians who have been through the recertification process share their best tips. (July-August 2002)
As recertifiation deadline nears, concerns keep growing
Complaints that recertification is inconvenient and irrelevant are giving way to new anxieties (November 2000)
Miscellaneous
.Book takes a look at medicine's future (October 2007)
Internship programs connect students to primary care
Physician role models for minority students and hands-on experience help kindle students' interest early on. (December 2006)
Chapter meetings offer education, networking. (September 2004)
Internal medicine takes a hard look at itself during summit on revitalization
Leaders at a two-day meeting on revitalizing the specialty discuss ways to re-tool education, reimbursement and the practice environment. (December 2003)
For physicians in search of an edge, MBAs are an answer
While some want to avoid mistakes that colleagues have made, others are looking for a new perspective (March 2003)
One teacher's secret: Use challenges, not humiliation (Annual Session News 2002)
Teaching empathy for the disabled through experience
Dr. Conill gives program participants a taste of being disabled and new skills to provide compassionate care. (February 2002)
Tips to give—and receive—feedback
Feedback is a critical teaching tool that both teaching physicians and residents need to master (May 2001)
For some students, medical school just isn't enough
A growing number are getting degrees like PhDs, MBAs and MPHs to learn—and earn—more (September 1998)
Columns by Frank Davidoff, MACP
.ACP's former Senior Vice President for Education and former Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine
Training to competence—so crazy it might just work
Why are most medical education programs equal in length for all comers—the late bloomers and the fireballs? (October 1995)
Mystery, murder and medicine: reading the clues
Detection and diagnosis have many similarities: observing keenly, asking the right questions and seeing patterns (September 1995)
Information and education—filling in the blanks
The challenge is not how to get information but how to filter it, fit it into the right slots and keep it where it belongs (June 1995)
Why is teaching valued less than research?
It is hard to explain the extraordinary hold of research over the values and reward systems of academe (May 1995)
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