title: Surgeon and family physician opinions of the general surgical needs of family practice residents: a pilot study.
abstract: There is a lack of data assessing needs and evaluating educational objectives in general surgery for family practice residents. Studies suggest that family practice residency graduates feel underprepared in some surgical areas. This study provides results of a survey of 28 surgeons, practicing family physicians and family practice residents in the Northeast regarding the importance of 166 surgical objectives. The groups are compared to each other to detect differences in perceptions about what family practice residents should be taught in general surgery. Surgeons attached significantly less importance to nine of 21 general categories of learning objectives (e.g. emergency skills) than did practicing family physicians or family practice residents. No differences in ratings of surgical objectives were observed for 12 of 21 general categories.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Quirk
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010865:Pilot Projects