This study examines the supervision of residents by faculty members in an outpatient internal medicine practice. For the study, the investigators developed a methodology to analyze the cognitive content and the focus of residents' thoughts during conversations between faculty members and residents. The residents also identified characteristics of productive and ...

The charts of 1,272 hospitalized adult medicine patients were reviewed to compare the amount of inpatient management experienced by family practice and internal medicine resident services during a 12-month period. In a random sample of 251 patients, the diagnostic categories, age and sex distribution, race, length of hospitalization, and numbers ...

The body of knowledge pertinent to the care of the elderly lies largely within internal medicine and its subspecialties. A growing number of elderly persons have great need for medical and social services. The Federated Council for Internal Medicine (FCIM) recommends increased emphasis on geriatric medicine in the medical school ...

To evaluate ECT interpretation in physicians training for primary care, we tested residents in two residency programs (one internal medicine, one family medicine) for their ability to interpret ECGs produced in an ambulatory practice. An 18-item examination used abnormal tracings from a university hospital ambulatory unit, including six technical problems ...

Complex social and economic pressures have initiated a perceptible shift in the composition of departments of medicine, which are now required to provide a more balanced faculty effort in the areas of patient care, teaching, and research. This report describes the development and diverse roles of a Division of General ...

With data collected from a national sample of residents in internal medicine (Questionnaire III of the National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower), two models are empirically tested: the first predicting interest in primary care medicine in contrast to subspecialty medicine and the second predicting interest in academic medicine in contrast ...

The evolution of clinical knowledge about the management of a common chronic disease was determined by applying analysis of variance and multiple discriminant analysis to responses on two patient management problems by groups of junior medical students and internal medicine residents. Differences between junior and resident groups were found on ...

Internal contamination by 131I among the personnel in a nuclear medicine laboratory was surveyed from January to July, 1979. Because of the formulation change made by the manufacturer in April to reduce volatility, it was possible to study two different therapeutic solutions of 131I. Internal contamination of personnel who administered ...

An international conference was held in Paris from March 12 to 14, 1980, to discuss the proposed guidelines on testing of medicinal products for their mutagenic potential, issued in April 1979 by the Committee on Proprietary Medicinal Products in Brussels. This introductory paper describes the goals of the conference and ...

Factors that have favored the division of the field of internal medicine into numerous subspecialties during the past three decades are reviewed. Some specialty areas are suited almost exclusively to academic clinical investigators, whereas others can be the basis for private practice. Some requisites for viability as a practice subspecialty ...

The development and early activities of the Milton Helpern Library of Legal Medicine is narrated by Dr. Milton Helpern. The offshoots of the Library are discussed, including the International Microform Journal of Legal Medicine, which was the first journal of its type in medicine. This has been continued after the ...

The words "education" and "training" are examined in the context of contemporary general internal medicine. Based upon the definitions of these two words, the words "practical" and "management" are assuming new meanings which reflect an approach to the patient distinct in a number of ways from the classic one. Conflict ...

There has been no evidence that primary-care pathways, a recent innovation in internal medicine residency programs, have affected the career choices of their trainees. We report the experience of the first four cohorts of primary-care trainees in internal medicine compared with traditional-pathway trainees at Boston City Hospital. Primary-care residents remained ...

The National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower gathered data on the number of residents in training in internal medicine and the number of fellows in subspecialty training, for 1977-1978 and for 1978-1979. In the latter period, there were 16720 residents in all years of training. The 7.2% average annual increase ...

An effective, inclusive internal auditing endeavor should help assure hospital managements that (1) an adequate system of internal control exists to assure the safeguarding of assets and the reliability of data produced by the financial information system, (2) uneconomic operating practices are detected promptly so they can be remedied, and ...

The National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower was undertaken to collect data on the supply of newly trained internists. The questionnaire data returned by 98% of the 418 internal medicine residency training program directors showed that there were more than 15,000 residents in training in internal medicine in 1976-1977. Twenty-five ...

This bibliography includes 58 books on the history of various medical subspecialties and general reference works useful in obtaining historical and biographical material relevant to internal medicine and related areas. In addition to a brief review of the contents of each volume, information is included on their publication and availability. ...

To determine the feasibility of wholly referral practice in internal medicine within a prepaid health service, the practice profiles of 694 internists in metropolitan, nonmetropolitan urban, and rural areas of Ontario were delineated by analysis of data from questionnaires and health-insurance billing. The questionnaire showed that two thirds of internists, ...

We sincerely regret to have to report the death of Professor Joseph F. Heremans on October 29th, 1975, at the age of 48. He was Professor of Internal Medicine and of Immunochemistry at the University of Louvain, Brussels and Director of the Department of Experimental Medicine at the new International ...

On 26 October 1974, 3356 diplomates of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) took a 1-day written examination for recertification consisting of multiple-choice, matching, and true-false questions derived from the American College of Physicians' Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program III and the ABIM Certifying Examination pool. The passing score was ...

"Papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Faculties of Medicine of Chiang Mai and St. Louis Universities and the International Union of Nutritional Sciences and held Jan. 8-11, 1973 in Chiang Mai

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This secretarial note was presented to the 12th session of the FAO African Forestry and Wildlife Commission (AFWC), Lusaka, Zambia, 27-30 March 2000, and is reproduced online at FAO Forestry's website. It discusses national level and forest management level criteria and indicators, and the role of International Tropical Timber Organization ...

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CONTEXT: The long-term effect of policies restricting contact between residents and pharmaceutical company representatives (PCRs) during internal medicine training is unknown. The McMaster University Department of Medicine in Hamilton, Ontario, implemented a policy restricting PCR contact with trainees in 1992, whereas the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, ...