Cooperation between an academic subspecialty department and a community-based family medicine department: a developmental model.
While new, community-based family practice residency programs desperately need support from sister departments in academic centers, a variety of problems frequently prevents such cooperation. At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Department of Human Oncology, which is University Hospital-based, has worked to develop an appropriate educational program in oncology, together with and for the Department of Family Medicine and Practice, which is community-based. This paper, relating how and why these two departments have cooperated in this project, is presented to assist other departments in similar situations.
D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009369:Neoplasms; D014922:Wisconsin