Medical Education

Why Medicine Residencies?

Authors: JOSEPH D. SAPIRA MD

Abstract

ABSTRACTOver the last several decades the context of the medicine residency has changed. These changes are described and attributed in considerable degree to bureaucratic impositions. I consider it paradoxic that there is finally a move afoot to reverse the changing nature of medicine residencies, yet this effort appears in the form of yet another bureaucratic imposition.

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