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Smith, Loraine – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Population growth and the COVID pandemic have stretched healthcare to its limits. There are not enough current and future healthcare professions available or in the pipeline, especially in medically underserved areas. To create a pipeline, many community hospitals have started residency programs, as 57.1% of doctors went into practice in the state…
Descriptors: Physicians, Hospitals, Clinical Experience, Medical Schools
Lemheney, Alexander J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Physicians' offices are not the usual place where emergencies occur; thus how staff remains prepared and current regarding medical emergencies presents an ongoing challenge for private practitioners. The very nature of low-volume, high-risk, and problem-prone medical emergencies is that they occur with such infrequency it is difficult for staff to…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer System Design, Physicians, Emergency Programs
Barrett, Theresa J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This quantitative, nonexperimental, correlational study sought to determine whether a relationship exists between family physicians' levels of self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) and their preferences for continuing medical education (CME) activities. The study also sought to determine whether years in clinical practice or size of clinical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Independent Study, Learning Readiness, Learning Activities
Evans, Steven Owens – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Patient centered medicine is a paradigm of health care that seeks to treat the whole person, rather than only the illness. The physician must understand the patient as a whole by considering the patient's individual needs, social structure, socioeconomic status, and educational background. Medical education includes ways to train students in this…
Descriptors: Pediatrics, Health Services, Holistic Approach, Patients