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September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Although brief primary care alcohol counseling has been shown to benefit patients with alcohol misuse and providers generally believe that addressing alcohol misuse is an important clinical responsibility, rates of alcohol counseling are low. This q ...
December 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Long-term maintenance care is needed to prevent recurrence of problematic alcohol use, yet primary care physicians receive little guidance about working with patients who have moderated or stopped their drinking. In the present pilot study, the auth ...
April 19, 2005 | Journal Article
This article discusses the essential role of primary care within the United States from a systems view. Three general functions of the primary care system are discussed including triage of undifferentiated symptoms, improving the efficiency and appr ...
April 19, 2005 | Journal Article
The complexity of the United States health care delivery system presents specific difficulties for the provision of coordinated care. In 2003, the RWJF Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars program began a review of the state of coordinated care and implications for the future of generalist research, education and practice.
May 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) is a one day test requiring medical students to examine and evaluate a series of standardized patients. It was developed in response to the need for an objective measure of clinical skills. This study examined the rel ...
October 22, 2007 | Journal Article
Graduate medical education poses unique challenges for the delivery of safe patient care because work carried out by medical trainees often involves special risks. Although those in the medical profession recognize these risk factors, there have bee ...
July 15, 2009 | Program Result
The Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program awarded four-year career development grants to junior faculty in family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
The University of Chicago Center for Health Administration Studies developed and published two papers: one on barriers to primary care training in internal medicine and the other on a comparison of major databases on graduate medical education.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1994 through 1997, the American Medical Association conducted a series of national surveys of residency program directors and graduating residents about the career opportunities of resident physicians.
May 1, 1998 | Program Result
From 1992 to 1997, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School conducted policy studies using different mathematical models designed to test the effects of these proposals.