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>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Create a quantitative Sankey diagram of the flow of US physicians from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into PC specialties: family medicine (FM), general internal medicine (IM), and general pediatrics (Peds). Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015.

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Remembering Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP

ABIM

Holly had a long and meaningful relationship with ABIM dating back to her first days on the ABIM Board of Directors in 2001. Gerard Professor in Medicine, the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and ultimately the Dean for Medical Education. Foundation, passed yesterday from pancreatic cancer.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.