Training International Medical Graduate Internal Medicine Residents in Pelvic Examinations and Pap Smears.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nearly 39% of Internal Medicine (IM) residents in American training programs are international medical graduates (IMGs), whose prior training in women's health is variable. There is a paucity of data about women's health training programs that train IMG IM residents in pelvic examinations/Pap smears.

Aim

To train IMG IM residents to competently perform pelvic examinations/Pap smears.

Setting

Montefiore Wakefield IM residency clinic, Bronx NY.

Participants

IMG categorical IM residents.

Program description

In 2015, we established the Women's Health Clinic (WHC) to train residents in pelvic examinations/Pap smears. The educational model includes one hour of didactics followed by trainees seeing up to four patients, supervised by WHC faculty in 1:

SUBMITTER: Swedish KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12325812 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature