Students must meet tremendous challenges to their mental and physical health as they proceed through this critical year of professional development. We have developed a set of videotapes to promote discussion of important stressors. These trigger tapes are shown and discussed within the small group sessions of our longitudinal third-year curriculum. We offer our community preceptors free software and access time to the Internet and free computer consultations in their offices and homes to reward them and to improve the quality of medical education in the community. We will present survey results of computer use by our preceptors before and after these consultations.
Participants can sample both the case-based and traditional curriculum formats.
Providing ongoing management support and education to persons who care for family members with dementing disorders is a significant challenge for family physicians. Participants of this session will have the opportunity to view the CD-ROM program and contribute suggestions for its improvement, use, and distribution. A relatively inexpensive computer program for tracking health maintenance and disease specific health activities was integrated into the daily practice of a small residency practice site. How to obtain tangible benefits for patients quickly without major investments of time and money will be discussed. A Computer Program for Documentation and Augmentation of Resident Training Experience Robert Lorin Cantrell, MD This session will present a basic computer program for resident education documentation and discuss how it can be developed to maximize its potential.