Effect of an Immersive Primary Care Training Program on Educational and Clinical Outcomes in an Internal Medicine Residency Training Program: Meeting the Training Needs of a Modern-Day Physician Workforce.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Residents planning careers in primary care have unique training needs that are not addressed in traditional internal medicine training programs, where there is a focus on inpatient training. There are no evidence-based approaches for primary care training.

Objectives

Design and test the effect of a novel immersive primary care training program on educational and clinical outcomes.

Design

Nested intervention study.

Setting, participants

Twelve primary care residents, 86 of their categorical peers, and an 11-year historical cohort of 69 primary care trainees in a large urban internal medicine residency training program.

Interventions

Two 6-month blocks of primary care immersion alternating with two 6-month blocks of standard residency training d

SUBMITTER: Graham KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9411496 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature