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3 ANALYSIS OF EFFECTIVENESS OF PAST EFFORTS TO BUILD GERIATRICS
Pages 14-29

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From page 15...
... Internal medicine residency programs reported an average of 2.8 full-time geriatrics faculty available, and family practice programs reported an average of 2.3 geriatrics faculty available. When extrapolated to include all programs, estimates of the number of full-time geriatrics faculty might be as high as 869 in family practice and 1,176 in internal medicine.
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From page 26...
... In 1993, 11.8 percent of those who participated in the matching program entered family practice (Association of American Medical Colleges, 1993; Paul Jolly, AAMC, personal communication, 1993~. However, on the basis of the NaSIMM projections from 1989 to 1990, an estimated 60 percent of internal medicine graduates enter subspecialty training (Andersen et al., 1992~.
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From page 27...
... The perceived need for faculty in geriatric medicine has remained largely unchanged over the past decade, and it is clear that the need as perceived by medical schools and their affiliated institutions far exceeds the capacity of the system to train faculty in geriatric medicine. There is a general perception that the training of faculty in geriatric medicine has emerged as an important medical education and health policy priority.
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... There is evidence that many of the fellowship programs may not be of optimal quality; in a UCLA survey (1987) , fewer than 15 percent of the programs at that time could be considered strong (Vivell et al., 1987~.
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