Family medicine residency characteristics associated with practice in a health professions shortage area.

Background And Objectives: While some family medicine residency programs are designed to train residents in community health centers (CHCs) for future careers serving underserved populations, there are few outcome studies on such programs. Our residency program provides three options for ambulatory health center training, but otherwise residents participate in the same curriculum. We analyzed relationships between ambulatory training site and likelihood of practice in health professions shortage areas (HPSAs).

The impact of a physician awareness group and the first year of training on hematology-oncology fellows.

Purpose: To assess the impact of a Balint-like physician awareness group on hematology-oncology fellows' attitudes and measure changes in attitudes during the first fellowship year.

Patients And Methods: We used a modified crossover design in which one half of a fellowship class at a time was exposed to the group intervention over a 2-year period (2000 to 2002). Two 14-fellow classes were followed for 1 year each and were given three "attitudes" questionnaires, at the beginning, middle, and end of the academic year.