Primary Care Physicians

Download or read book Primary Care Physicians written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of changes in the health care system, the hospital has become less suitable as the primary focus of graduate medical education for primary care physicians. However, the current system of financing health care education and services makes it difficult to accomplish the needed shift to training in primary care ambulatory settings. This book suggests ways of lowering financial barriers to primary care training in ambulatory settings.