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April 1, 2007 | Program Result
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education directed an initiative that created a set of core competencies for graduate medical education based on what medical residents should know and be able to do.
March 25, 2010 | Program Result
ACT created an interactive website and sample curricula for post–medical school physician training programs. Six hospitals adapted, institutionalized and expanded the ACT curriculum at their schools.
March 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Physicians can be more confident in their approach to ethical challenges in patient care if they adopt a systematic approach to address the issues. The authors recognize that a problem which initially appears to be ethical in nature may be more rela ...
November 1, 2006 | Journal Article
High-quality palliative care requires physicians who communicate effectively, yet many do not receive adequate training. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a relatively brief end-of-life communication skills training program for internal medi ...
July 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The current article presented findings from a study that explored how a CD-ROM based tutorial from the Penn State Immunization Project (PSIP) impacted physicians' understanding of parent resistance to childhood immunizations. Participants in the stu ...
September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This research examines how diagnosis-based risk adjustment systems might be used to help allocate funds to cover very-high-cost (VHC) patients. VHC patients are relatively rare in health care systems and therefore predictive models have a difficult ...
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study takes a historical look at the effects of a screening program for phenylketonuria on children with false-positive results. Some received a restrictive diet when the disease variants and the effectiveness of the treatment protocol were not completely understood.
September 1, 2008 | Journal Article
In this study, patients were screened for unhealthy alcohol use to determine the affect primary care counseling had on improving their perceived quality of care.
September 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The purpose of this study was to help clarify the association between drinking alcohol—any alcohol use and problem drinking—and the health of elderly people.
February 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This study created a conceptual framework for trust in health care organizations based on theory and empirical studies to develop a comprehensive, reliable measure of trust in health insurers. Items from this conceptual framework were used in a stru ...