ArticleJournal of graduate medical education2017
Training Family Medicine Residents to Perform Home Visits: A CERA Survey.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Medical Training in Home Care Medicine: The Time is Now.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Delivering Personalized Care at a Distance: How Telemedicine Can Foster Getting to Know the Patient as a Person.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- Family doctors providing home visits in Nova Scotia: Who are they and how often does it happen?Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2020Article
- Utilizing Home Visits to Assess Social Determinants of Health During Family Medicine Residency.PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.) · 2020Article
- Characteristics of the modern-day physician house call.Medicine · 2019Observational
- Incorporating Home Visits in a Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient and Physician Experience.Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2019Article
- House Calls Are Reaching the Tipping Point - Now We Need the Workforce.Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2019Article
- A brief home-based palliative care learning experience for medical students and resident doctors in Okinawa, Japan.PloS one · 2019Article
- The Resurgence of Home-Based Primary Care Models in the United States.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- Visiting Jack: Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Virtual Home Visit Curriculum With a Child With Medical Complexity.Academic pediatricsArticle
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundHome visits have been shown to improve quality of care, save money, and improve outcomes. Primary care physicians are in an ideal position to provide these visits; of note, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education no longer requires home visits as a component of family medicine residency training.
objectiveTo investigate changes in home visit numbers and expectations, attitudes, and approaches to training among family medicine residency program directors.
methodsThis research used the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) national survey of family medicine program directors in 2015. Questions addressed home visit practices, teaching and evaluation methods, common types of patient and visit categories, and barriers.
resultsThere were 252 responses from 455 possible respondents, representing a response rate of 55%. At most programs, residents performed 2 to 5 home visits by graduation in both 2014 (69% of programs, 174 of 252) and 2015 (68%, 172 of 252). The vast majority (68%, 172 of 252) of program directors expect less than one-third of their graduates to provide home visits after graduation. Scheduling difficulties, lack of faculty time, and lack of resident time were the top 3 barriers to residents performing home visits.
conclusionsThere appeared to be no decline in resident-performed home visits in family medicine residencies 1 year after they were no longer required. Family medicine program directors may recognize the value of home visits despite a lack of few formal curricula.
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