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Untitled Document PUBLICATION INFORMATION – Mendelson, Marilyn; Fogel, Bernard J.; Robinson, John K,; and Paper, Emanuel M.
The University of Miami School of Medicine's alumni during the school's first twenty years.
J FLORIDA M A 63:771-778, Oct 76.
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TYPE OF STUDY Medical School 2.
LOCATION University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 3.
GRADUATE YEARS COVERED – 1956 through 1973 4.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES SURVEYED – 1,251 graduates studied using existing records yielding 100 percent return.
TYPES OF DATA ANALYZED A.
PRACTICE SETTING TYPES – Yes, except only if in private practice and only for 599 of the alumni as others were in internship or residency.
B.
PATIENT ENCOUNTER TYPES No C.
OFFICE RECORD SYSTEM TYPES No D.
PRACTICE SELECTION CHARACTERISTICS No E.
ADEQUACY OF TRAINING No F.
COMMUNITY SIZE – Yes, by State at entry, practice State, and County size.
G.
SIZES OF PROGRAMS No H.
STATE AND REGIONAL RETENTION – Yes, but only gross data by specialty cluster.
5.
ABSTRACT – This appears to be the foundation article for graduates trained in the United States that includes family physicians.
The authors were concerned with relating state of origin with eventual practice state by county size locations.
The authors use of Chi-square statistics to indicate that county size and state of origin prior to medical school related to practice in state and surrounding states by county size. (Chi-square statistics were developed as a correlation statistic, originally.) They also concluded that for practicing alumni (599 of 1,251 alumni studied), 42 percent entered primary care defined as Family Medicine, General Practice, General Internal Medicine, and General Pediatrics.
Major values of this study are: (1) Excellent demonstration of the use of medical school records to study graduates and (2) Identification of size of community prior to medical school selection as a probable predictor of later practice community size selection. [TCB89] PUBLICATION INFORMATION – Potchen, E.J.; G.I.
Harris, Ph.D.; W.R.
Schonbein; P.B.
Santora; and B.H.
Sontag.
Physicians and their careers as products of medical education.
J MED EDUC 52:602, JUL 77.
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TYPE OF STUDY Regional 2.
LOCATION – Four East Coast Universities including John Hopkins University, University of Maryland, and Michigan State University schools of medicine.
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GRADUATE YEARS COVERED – 1964 Graduates of the medical schools.
4.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES SURVEYED – Not stated, but all graduates.
TYPES OF DATA ANALYZED A.
PRACTICE SETTING TYPES No B.
PATIENT ENCOUNTER TYPES – NO C.
OFFICE RECORD SYSTEM TYPES – No.
D.
PRACTICE SELECTION CHARACTERISTICS No E.
ADEQUACY OF TRAINING No F.
COMMUNITY SIZE No G.
SIZES OF PROGRAMS No H.
STATE AND REGIONAL RETENTION No 5.
ABSTRACT – The authors developed standardized career profiles based on curriculum vitae of graduates of the 1964 classes covering a ten-year span.
These data were used to determine career activities.
Faculty from John Hopkins University School of Medicine evaluated if careers were "desirable" as products of John Hopkins without knowledge of which institution from which the physician had graduated.
The faculty panelists reliably identified the high percentage of John Hopkins graduates who had entered academic medicine.
Authors concluded that the method was an effective way for faculty to determine if actual career paths matched "desirable" outputs of medical education.
This study was used to illustrate the emphasis of graduate follow-up studies prior to the development of training programs in primary care fields . [TCB89] PUBLICATION INFORMATION Nade, Sydney.
A decade of medical practice profile of a class .
MED J AUSTRALIA, 791-793, Nov.
76.
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TYPE OF STUDY Medical School Graduates 2.
LOCATION Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
3.
GRADUATE YEARS COVERED Class of 1962.
4.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES SURVEYED 200 M.B., B.S. physicians (170 men, 30 women) who graduated in 1962 sent questionnaire.
179 returned questionnaire for 89.3 percent return rate.
TYPES OF DATA ANALYZED I.
PRACTICE SETTING TYPES Yes J.
PATIENT ENCOUNTER TYPES – No K.
OFFICE RECORD SYSTEM TYPES – No.
L.
PRACTICE SELECTION CHARACTERISTICS No M.
ADEQUACY OF TRAINING No N.
COMMUNITY SIZE No, but general information by region.
O.
SIZES OF PROGRAMS No P.
STATE AND REGIONAL RETENTION No, except in general 5.
ABSTRACT A mailed questionnaire was sent to all graduates of the 1962 class and a return rate of 89.7 percent was achieved.
Data was compared to studies completed in 1927 and 1972.
Graduates were grouped by types of practice including general practice, hospital service, specialist practice (private), academic, public health, other medical, not in medical practice but working in another field, pharmacy industry, defense service, non-practicing women, and other.
26.5 percent were in general practice, 20.9 were in hospital service, and 28 percent did not answer the practice type question.
98 graduates indicated specialty (family practice or general practice not included) and 9.2 percent were in general medicine and 1.5 percent were in pediatrics.
Ten years after graduation, graduates were distributed as follows: 51.5 percent in private practice, 27.5 percent in salaried positions, 19 percent unknown or not practicing, and 2 percent dead.
Overall, 58.3 percent had become specialists and 30.9 percent had become general practitioners.
This study is especially valuable because It has similar information for the 1927 and 1972 studies allowing longitudinal comparisons. [TCB89].
PUBLICATION INFORMATION Leaman, Thomas L.; Geyman, John P.; and Brown, Thomas C.
Graduate Education in Family Practice .
J FAM PRACT 1:47-61, Jul 77.
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TYPE OF STUDY National Sample 2.
LOCATION University of Minnesota, Medical University of South Carolina and the Medical College of Virginia 3.
GRADUATE YEARS COVERED 1969 to 1976 4.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES SURVEYED Not stated, but all graduates TYPES OF DATA ANALYZED A.
PRACTICE SETTING TYPES – No B.
PATIENT ENCOUNTER TYPES No C.
OFFICE RECORD SYSTEM TYPES No D.
PRACTICE SELECTION CHARACTERISTICS No E.
ADEQUACY OF TRAINING No F.
COMMUNITY SIZE – No G.
SIZES OF PROGRAMS No H.
STATE AND REGIONAL RETENTION – Yes 5.
ABSTRACT The authors sampled three University network residency programs by making site visits to each.
A series of interviews with faculty and administrators, including program directors, and an analysis of information provided by participating Universities, was used to describe the "state of the art" in family practice graduate education.
The topic of graduate follow-up was not a major topic but the authors did write a short paragraph on graduates from each institution.
Data reported was number of graduates and state and regional retention by number and percent.
While not focused specifically on graduate follow-up, the reader interested in early aspects of graduate medical education in family practice from several geographical areas will find this study a foundation article. [TCB89] PUBLICATION INFORMATION Payne, John C.
Hospital privileges for University of California at Davis family practice graduates.
Proceedings of the Third Annual Residents Research Conference, Family Practice Residency Network Program, University of California, Davis, 21-27, Feb.
78.
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TYPE OF STUDY Network 2.
LOCATION Department of Family Practice, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, 95616 3.
GRADUATE YEARS COVERED 1971 to 1976 4.
NUMBER OF GRADUATES SURVEYED 32 graduates sent survey forms and 26 responded for an 81.3 return rate.
TYPES OF DATA ANALYZED A.
PRACTICE SETTING TYPES – Yes B.
PATIENT ENCOUNTER TYPES Yes C.
OFFICE RECORD SYSTEM TYPES No D.
PRACTICE SELECTION CHARACTERISTICS Yes E.
ADEQUACY OF TRAINING No F.
COMMUNITY SIZE – Yes G.
SIZES OF PROGRAMS No H.
STATE AND REGIONAL RETENTION State only 5.
ABSTRACT Dr.
Payne indicated he was using non-published data provided by Dr.s Brown and Burr of the UCD faculty.
Survey forms of 26 of 32 graduates were received.
Specific programs from which graduates trained were not mentioned.
11 of the 26 were in private practice and 10 were divided between faculty positions, emergency rooms, Kaiser Foundation and federal clinics.
Comparison of hospital privileges maintained by graduates showed that out-of-state graduates were more highly involved in all areas, e.g., medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, major and minor surgery and assisting, CCU, and ER, although all but one in private practice maintained at least medicine privileges.
46% had obstetrical privileges and obstetrics accounted for about 9 percent of such physicians practice.
For those with surgical privileges, about 19 percent of their practice was in this area.
Dr.
Payne noted that although less than 50,000 community population was indicative of higher rates of obstetrics and surgery privileges, these were also available in larger communities and he hypothesized that individual physician preferences probably were more important as a cause for differences.
Graduates located in areas because of spouse preference, location of community, professional colleagues, population, recreational opportunities, adequate facilities, income, cultural opportunities, and availability of hospital privileges, in that order.
23 percent were in communities of less than 10,000, 30.8 in communities between 10,000 and 50,000, and 42.2 percent in communities over 50,000.
This is the first practice-specific study in family medicine. [TCB89]
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