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As academic institutions are facing increasingly fierce competition for a highly skilled workforce, support for caregivers could be a key selling point, committee member Robert Phillips Jr., founding executive director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care, pointed out during today’s webinar. “Our universities, our science settings, could really enhance their competitiveness within the country—for funding, for success—by creating a workplace that not just accommodates caregiving, but that embraces it and makes it possible.”
In this survey study of 2088 physicians, 70% indicated being at least somewhat satisfied with access to outside information. However, only 23% indicated that it was very easy to use outside information, and very few (8%) indicated that it was very easy to use information from different electronic health record systems.
Despite the persistent primary care physician shortage over 2 decades of allopathic medical school expansion, some medical schools are absent a department of family medicine; these schools are designated as “target” schools. These absences are important because evidence has demonstrated the association between structured exposure to family medicine during medical school and the proportion of students who ultimately select a career in family medicine. In this study, we aimed to address part of this gap by defining and characterizing the current landscape of US allopathic target schools.
