Specialization

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2020 ACC/HFSA/ISHLT Lifelong Learning Statement for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Specialists: A Report of the ACC Competency Management Committee. 
  • A Call to Restructure Psychiatry General and Subspecialty Training. 
  • A comprehensive process for identifying and managing conflicts of interest reduced perceived bias at a specialty society annual meeting. 
  • A decade in diabetes specialist services, 2000 to 2011, in England: the views of consultant diabetologists and diabetes specialist nurses amidst persistent healthcare delivery change. 
  • A potential hole in the safety net. 
  • ABR examinations: the why, what, and how. 
  • Accreditation council for graduate medical education (ACGME) competencies in neuropathology training. 
  • Achieving Entrustable Professional Activities During Fellowship. 
  • Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care Specialists in Malignant Hematology and Stem-Cell Transplantation: On Why It Takes A Village. 
  • An analysis of the knowledge base of practicing internists as measured by the 1980 recertification examination. 
  • Are primary care services a substitute or complement for specialty and inpatient services? 
  • Assessment of Subspecialty Choices of Men and Women in Internal Medicine From 1991 to 2016. 
  • Association of evidence-based care processes and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndromes: performance matters. 
  • Attrition rates in integrated vascular and cardiothoracic surgery residency and fellowship programs. 
  • Burnout in Nephrology: Implications on Recruitment and the Workforce. 
  • Can we close the income and wealth gap between specialists and primary care physicians? 
  • Career characteristics of graduates of a Medical Scientist Training Program, 1970-1990. 
  • Certification in neuromuscular medicine: a new neurologic subspecialty. 
  • Chemotherapy administration for ovarian cancer by gynecologic oncologists and medical oncologists. 
  • Comparative genomics reveals dynamic genome evolution in host specialist ectomycorrhizal fungi. 
  • Comparing Specialty and Primary Palliative Care Interventions: Analysis of a Systematic Review. 
  • Comparing perceptions and use of a commercial electronic medical record (EMR) between primary care and subspecialty physicians. 
  • Core clerkship directors: their current resources and the rewards of the role. 
  • Correlation of Appointment Times and Subspecialty With the No-Show Rates in an Orthopedic Ambulatory Clinic. 
  • Creating the Subspecialty Pediatrics Investigator Network. 
  • Current teaching and evaluation methods in critical care medicine: has the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education affected how we practice and teach in the intensive care unit? 
  • Defining sarcoma specialist center: revisiting the volume effect. 
  • Development of a web-based, specialty specific portfolio. 
  • Diagnostic laboratory immunology: a subspecialty that encompasses clinical as well as laboratory immunology. 
  • Differences in providers' beliefs about benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy in managed care. 
  • Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved? 
  • Does payment drive procedures? Payment for specialty services and procedure rate variations in 3 HMOs. 
  • Does the label "fibromyalgia" alter health status, function, and health service utilization? A prospective, within-group comparison in a community cohort of adults with chronic widespread pain. 
  • Doing all they can: physicians who deny medical futility. 
  • Early evidence on the quality of care provided by special needs plans. 
  • Effects of insurance status on children's access to specialty care: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Enrollment of patients with lung and colorectal cancers onto clinical trials. 
  • Equity and accuracy in medical malpractice insurance pricing. 
  • Evaluation of specialist referrals at a rural health care clinic. 
  • Experience rating: does it make sense for medical malpractice insurance? 
  • Exploring the generalist-subspecialist interface in internal medicine. 
  • Factors influencing morning report case presentations. 
  • Factors related to an effective referral and consultation process. 
  • Family medicine at Duke: excellence defined. 
  • Family practice as a specialty. 
  • From Coronary Care Units to Cardiac Intensive Care Units: Recommendations for Organizational, Staffing, and Educational Transformation. 
  • General internists influence students to choose primary care careers: the power of role modeling. 
  • General otolaryngology and the subspecialties: finding the balance. 
  • Geriatric oncology. 
  • Guidelines for training in adult cardiovascular medicine. Core Cardiology Training Symposium (COCATS). Task Force 4: training in echocardiography. 
  • Guidelines for training in electronic ultrasound: guidelines for clinical application. From the ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 
  • Impact of a multidisciplinary thoracic oncology clinic on the timeliness of care. 
  • Impact of physician assistant care on office visit resource use in the United States. 
  • Impact of psychiatric advance directive facilitation on mental health consumers: empowerment, treatment attitudes and the role of peer support specialists. 
  • Impact of the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative on Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Practice. 
  • Improving ICU-Based Palliative Care Delivery: A Multicenter, Multidisciplinary Survey of Critical Care Clinician Attitudes and Beliefs. 
  • Influence of Trainee Experience on Choice of Orthopaedic Subspecialty Fellowship. 
  • Influence of changes in supply on the distribution of pediatric subspecialty care. 
  • International health and internal medicine residency training: the Duke University experience. 
  • Interspecialty differences in the care of children with chronic or serious acute conditions: a review of the literature. 
  • Is tenure irrelevant for academic clinicians? 
  • Knowledge and attitudes about depression among non-generalists and generalists. 
  • Literacy and laryngectomy: how should one treat head and neck cancer in patients who cannot read or write? 
  • Low back pain as perceived by the pain specialist. 
  • Low back pain as perceived by the pain specialist. 
  • Management of allergic rhinitis in the working-age population. 
  • Manuscript Architect: a Web application for scientific writing in virtual interdisciplinary groups. 
  • Medical malpractice experience of physicians. Predictable or haphazard? 
  • Medical records and quality of care in acute coronary syndromes: results from CRUSADE. 
  • Medical student perceptions of diagnostic radiology. Influence of a senior radiology elective. 
  • Meeting the challenges facing clinical research: solutions proposed by leaders of medical specialty and clinical research societies. 
  • Migration patterns of recent medical school graduates. 
  • Neurosurgical workforce trends in the United States. 
  • Outcome of acute myocardial infarction according to the specialty of the admitting physician. 
  • Overcoming the challenges facing quality-improvement strategies for non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • PA job availability in primary care during 2014 and 2016. 
  • Patient preference in primary care provider type. 
  • Patient, Provider, and Practice Characteristics Associated With Sacubitril/Valsartan Use in the United States. 
  • Perceptions of palliative care among hematologic malignancy specialists: a mixed-methods study. 
  • Performance of Consultative Palliative Care Model in Achieving Quality Metrics in the ICU. 
  • Perspectives of HIV specialists and cardiologists on the specialty referral process for people living with HIV: a qualitative descriptive study. 
  • Physician assistant specialty choice: Distribution, salaries, and comparison with physicians. 
  • Physicians' beliefs and U.S. health care reform--a national survey. 
  • Political trends in vascular and interventional radiology: a randomized survey. 
  • Possible incremental benefits of specialized rehabilitation bed units among veterans after lower extremity amputation. 
  • Preserving an integrated view of informatics. 
  • Primary Care Providers And Specialists Deliver Comparable Buprenorphine Treatment Quality. 
  • Primary and subspecialty care: building a collaborative relationship. 
  • Primary care as a vocation. 
  • Primary care for patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Primary care providers. The view from where I stand. 
  • Primary versus specialty care outcomes for depressed outpatients managed with measurement-based care: results from STAR*D. 
  • Primary-care physicians' access to genetic specialists: an impediment to the routine use of genomic medicine? 
  • Prognostic factors, disability, and functional status among patients in a headache specialty practice. 
  • Progress in medical information management. Systematized nomenclature of medicine (SNOMED). 
  • Psychomotor and visual skills underlying position specialization in 1352 elite youth baseball players. 
  • Putting the "M" back in maternal-fetal medicine. 
  • Radiographic loss of contact between radial head fracture fragments is moderately reliable. 
  • Randomized Trial of Population-Based Clinical Decision Support to Facilitate Care Transitions. 
  • Real returns to medical education: a comment. 
  • Recent interest in global health among American Academy of Pediatrics Newborn Specialists. 
  • Redefining the role of psychiatry in medicine. 
  • Referrals to psychiatrists. Assessing the communication interface between psychiatry and primary care. 
  • Report of the 2010 society of thoracic surgeons congenital heart surgery practice and manpower survey. 
  • Rhythm versus rate control in the contemporary management of atrial fibrillation in-hospital. 
  • Role Models' Influence on Specialty Choice for Residency Training: A National Longitudinal Study. 
  • Sex Differences in the Pursuit of Interventional Cardiology as a Subspecialty Among Cardiovascular Fellows-in-Training. 
  • Sex, role models, and specialty choices among graduates of US medical schools in 2006-2008. 
  • Should we just let the anticoagulation service do it? 
  • Solo versus group practice in the medical profession: the influence of malpractice risk. 
  • Specialist/generalist division of responsibility for patients with mental disorders. 
  • Specialty distribution of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in North Carolina. 
  • The European union and postgraduate medical education in Scotland. 
  • The Veterans Affairs Learners' Perceptions Survey: the foundation for educational quality improvement. 
  • The financial impact of orthopaedic fellowship training. 
  • The future internist. The Task Force on the Future Internist, American Board of Internal Medicine. 
  • The value of an infectious diseases specialist. 
  • Time-dependent analysis in CHF follow-up. 
  • Too many, too few, too concentrated? A review of the pediatric subspecialty workforce literature. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Solid Organ Transplantation. 
  • Trainee Characteristics, Subspecialty Choice, and Program Usage for the American Board of Pediatrics Resident Research Pathways, 2000-2019. 
  • Training and practice activities of hematology and medical oncology diplomates. 
  • Training in occupational medicine. 
  • Training in subspecialty internal medicine. On the chessboard of health care reform. Association of Subspecialty Professors. 
  • Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law. 
  • Tricyclic antidepressant prescribing for nonpsychiatric disorders. An analysis based on data from the 1985 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. 
  • Use of general medical care services by persons with mental disorders. 
  • Use of outpatient care in VA and Medicare among disability-eligible and age-eligible veteran patients. 
  • VA community-based outpatient clinics: access and utilization performance measures. 
  • VA community-based outpatient clinics: cost performance measures. 
  • Vascular Anomalies in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Resident Education. 
  • Working group 8: Defining the different types of cardiovascular specialists and developing a new model for training general clinical cardiologists. 
  • Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Morgan, Perri Anne, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society