L M Sherer | PubMed Health

PubMed1980

Resident development in family practice training: a personal counseling program.

A family physician's personal development and professional functioning are strongly meshed. Family practice residencies need to implement programs which promote personal development and support the integration of the resident's personal and professional development. This paper describes and evaluates the personal counseling program in the Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, from 1973 through 1978. The evolution of goals and their implementation are outlined. Providing resident counseling as part of a family medicine curriculum presents problems which are generic to primary care. These problems and their solutions, within the model of resident development, are defined and addressed.

Counseling↗

PubMed1977

Developing behavioral science for a family practice residency.

The development of behavioral science in a family practice residency has first to be structured around a statement of purpose and adequate goals. These goals can only be implemented when the purely custodial function of the medical profession is rejected and the ethical responsiblity of the physician to society is allowed to direct the role innovations that must be incorporated. It is the person of the physician as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool that must be cultivated. The curriculum presented has included behavioral science conferences, a one-month behavioral science rotation, a two-month orientation program, behavioral science clinical attendings, and a personal counseling program for each resident throughout the three years of training. To be complete, such a program requires the further refinement of behavioral objectives that allow reliable evaluation and redefinition by residents and faculty.

Behavioral Sciences↗