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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.
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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
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