Journal article
Comparing selection criteria of residency directors and physicians' employers
Academic medicine, v 70(4), pp 261-271
Apr 1995
PMID: 7718057
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Abstract
In 1993, the Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP), mindful of the rapidly changing environments of health care delivery, created three surveys to gather information from outside the school that would help the faculty plan how the curriculum and advising system could better prepare students and residents for the demands of twenty-first-century medicine. The first survey focused on the MCP seniors graduating that year and asked about their perceptions of their medical education and their specialty and residency choices. The second survey, directed to 40 medical residency program directors in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and surgery, sought to identify the characteristics of applicants that these directors valued when selecting entrants to their programs. The third survey, of 30 employers of physicians representing four practice environments (private practice, hospitals/other health systems, academic medical centers, and health maintenance organizations), sought information on hiring and recruitment practices and the skills, competencies, and attitudes these employers valued most when hiring recently graduated physicians. The responses showed several differences and/or misperceptions among the views held by the three groups surveyed and suggest that medical educators have not adapted as rapidly as have employers to changes in the health care environment. Academic health centers must broaden their missions and make changes in their own institutional cultures, both to maintain their own viability and to train physicians who have the balance between scientific and technical competency and essential personal characteristics (such as empathy) that the next century's practice will probably demand.
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- Title
- Comparing selection criteria of residency directors and physicians' employers
- Creators
- A M Villanueva - Drexel UniversityD KayeS S AbdelhakP S Morahan
- Publication Details
- Academic medicine, v 70(4), pp 261-271
- Publisher
- Lippincott
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Medicine (Graduate); [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1995QT46200010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0028915311
- Other Identifier
- 991019184189804721
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