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Growth of Diagnostic Skills in Family Practice

Willam MacMillam Rodney, MS
The University of Tennessee Memphis

Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(5):399-400.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The recent documentation of the prevalence of various procedural skills among one group of family physicians is an important milestone symbolizing the impact of family practice as a social reform within the overall structure of academic medicine.1 These data can be analyzed from a separate perspective to predict future needs for the specialty and can suggest curriculum changes within family practice residency training programs.

By comparing the number of those physicians who currently practice a skill with those who report a desire to practice in the future, certain growth areas can be identified. The published data represent a "snapshot" of early 1989. Five years have passed since that time.

As a coordinator for regional, state, and national continuing medical education, I have observed the growth trends of flexible sigmoidoscopy skills and have used that to predict similar trends for colposcopy, colonoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, obstetric ultrasonography, and others.2-6 The Washington . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]






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