Basic Ophthalmology for Medical Students and Primary Care Residents by American Academy of Ophthalmology, Cynthia A. Bradford

Basic Ophthalmology for Medical Students and Primary Care Residents



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Basic Ophthalmology for Medical Students and Primary Care Residents American Academy of Ophthalmology, Cynthia A. Bradford ebook
Page: 236
Format: djvu
Publisher: American Academy of Ophthalmology
ISBN: 1560553618, 9781560553618


This concise text is an ideal complement to the medical student curriculum and is an important text for primary care residents and physicians. A: There are 3 specialties that are definitely considered as primary care in the US: family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. Year of study A recent review of the literature concluded that there are predictable factors which influence recruitment and retention of primary care physicians in rural areas [9]. Q: I have finished medical school and do not want to pursue any specialties. Women get their basic health care from a family physician or other primary care provider, and often that includes reproductive health care. Basic Ophthalmology for Medical Students and Primary Care Residents. In a dismaying move, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has proposed changes to the guidelines for family medicine residency programs removing the requirement that residents learn to provide contraception. Product Details Book Publisher: Amer Academy of Ophthalmology (January, 1999) ISBN: 1560550988. A: Once a resident completes his/her training, he/she will be eligible to sit for board certification exam to demonstrate through either written, practical, and/or simulator based testing, a mastery of the basic knowledge and skills of his/her respective specialty. To obtain basic demographic information of the student respondents;. The study was conducted among first- and second-year undergraduate medical students using a semi-structured questionnaire developed by the authors using inputs from the literature and their experiences of teaching medical students. The “we are primary care physicians” faction of chiropractors thought this cramped their style. As commenters on an DRH Econlog post just one day ago pointed out, the constraint on new doctors isn't really medical-school admissions, it is "residency" training slots. Why not just let physician's assistants and nurse practitioners care for people with non life threatening illnesses (sore throat, stuffy nose, etc)to increase the supply of medical providers? Who would want to go into primary care medicine now? Especially in rural and low-income areas, family physicians do it all!