An Expanded Primary Care-Based Women's Health Clinic to Improve Resident Education and Patient Care in Resident Continuity Clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Internal medicine (IM) residents are underprepared in women's health. Lack of properly trained faculty and clinic culture limits the ability to provide bedside teaching.

Aim

Assess the impact of a primary care-based, women's clinic on residents' quality of care for females.

Setting

Large academic, urban primary care clinic with resident and faculty practices PARTICIPANTS: PGY-2 IM and Med-Peds (MP) residents PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: A weekly half-day, women's clinic to provide expanded women's healthcare to primary care group patients. Residents rotate through the clinic to receive bedside teaching.

Program evaluation

Chart review was performed for a representative sample of reproductive-aged women seen in primary care before and after the establishment

SUBMITTER: Rusiecki J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9296708 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature