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<blockquote data-quote="LukeWhite" data-source="post: 1311234" data-attributes="member: 17626"><p>I don't really think Kristin's obligated to justify her skepticism of an unproven point. Burden of proof's on the claimant, and all that.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, it's not that tough.</p><p></p><p>ABSTRACT:</p><p></p><p>We wanted to figure out whether AZCOM focuses disporportionately on turning out primary care docs compared to COMP. Judging by recent match lists, this seems not to be the case, or if it is, they're not doing a good job of keeping people out of specialties.</p><p></p><p>METHODOLOGY:</p><p></p><p>I defined primary care as the NHSC set: peds, ob/gyn, family practice, internal medicine, psychiatry. Tossed out traditional rotating internships, since they could go either way. Took the COMP match list someone posted awhile ago, and the 2003 AZCOM match list from the MWU intranet.</p><p></p><p>RESULTS:</p><p></p><p>COMP: 92/140 (66%) straight into primary care.</p><p>AZCOM: 56/133 (42%) "</p><p></p><p>Qualitatively, AZCOM's looks a lot more impressive. COMP's out-of-the-gate specializers generally did EM, some surgery, a bit of anesthesiology. AZCOM had plenty of anesthesiology, derm, exotica like otolaryngwhatever, etc.</p><p></p><p>DISCUSSION:</p><p></p><p>Whatever AZCOM's doing by focusing on primary care in its classwork and rotations, it seems to be working even for those not planning on going into primary care. Perhaps program directors are more interested than we thought in getting people who are excellent in the fundamentals and then training them in the speciality, rather than hand-holding research-paper-writing hospital-rotating gunners who have a great grasp of hospital politics but don't know how to draw blood. </p><p></p><p>To Neuro!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LukeWhite, post: 1311234, member: 17626"] I don't really think Kristin's obligated to justify her skepticism of an unproven point. Burden of proof's on the claimant, and all that. Anyway, it's not that tough. ABSTRACT: We wanted to figure out whether AZCOM focuses disporportionately on turning out primary care docs compared to COMP. Judging by recent match lists, this seems not to be the case, or if it is, they're not doing a good job of keeping people out of specialties. METHODOLOGY: I defined primary care as the NHSC set: peds, ob/gyn, family practice, internal medicine, psychiatry. Tossed out traditional rotating internships, since they could go either way. Took the COMP match list someone posted awhile ago, and the 2003 AZCOM match list from the MWU intranet. RESULTS: COMP: 92/140 (66%) straight into primary care. AZCOM: 56/133 (42%) " Qualitatively, AZCOM's looks a lot more impressive. COMP's out-of-the-gate specializers generally did EM, some surgery, a bit of anesthesiology. AZCOM had plenty of anesthesiology, derm, exotica like otolaryngwhatever, etc. DISCUSSION: Whatever AZCOM's doing by focusing on primary care in its classwork and rotations, it seems to be working even for those not planning on going into primary care. Perhaps program directors are more interested than we thought in getting people who are excellent in the fundamentals and then training them in the speciality, rather than hand-holding research-paper-writing hospital-rotating gunners who have a great grasp of hospital politics but don't know how to draw blood. To Neuro! [/QUOTE]
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