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Accreditation • Introduction To Health Care Accreditation (Jun 2000) • JCAHO Accreditation Of Hospitals (Jun 2000) • Goals And Purpose Of NCQA Accreditation (Jun 2000) Career Pathways • Qualifications And Functions Of Medical Directors (Dec 2000) • Hospitalists (Mar 2002) Clinical Practice Guidelines/Pathways • How Clinical Practice Guidelines Can Improve Medical Practice (Mar 1999) • Teaching Residents About Clinical Pathways (Mar 1999) • Disclosing Information To Patients About Clinical Practice Guidelines (Mar 1999) • Overcoming Barriers To Using Asthma Clinical Practice Guidelines (Sep 2000) • A Patient-Centered Approach To Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines To Treating Tabacco Dependence (Sep 2001) Disease Management • Theory And Implementation Of A Disease Management Program  (Dec 1999) • Basic Principles Of Disease Management (Dec 1999) • Prejudices Surrounding Disease Management (Dec 1999) Employment/Compensation • Introduction To Physician Compensation (Aug 1999) • Assessing Private Practice Opportunities (Mar 2000) • Finding the Practice That Is Right for You: Tips for a Successful Job Search After Residency (Mar 2005) Evidence-Based Medicine • Basic Principles Of EBM  (Oct 1999) • Pulmonary Embolus As An EBM Case Study (Oct 1999) • How To Search For And Evaluate Medical Evidence (Oct 1999) • Challenges To Using EBM In Daily Clinical Practice (Oct 1999) • Challenges To Implementing An EBM Curriculum (Oct 1999) • Answering Patient-Specific Questions With Resources Available In An Outpatient Clinic (Dec 2000) • Making Medical Decisions Under Uncertainty (Jun 2000) • Understanding And Applying Common Clinical Reasoning Strategies (Mar 2001) • Evidence-Based Practice: How To Develop A Focused Clinical Question (Sep 2002) • Evidence-Based Practice: How To Evaluate A New Diagnostic Test (Dec 2002) • Evidence-Based Practice: How To Approach Decisions About Screening (Dec 2003) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Evaluate a Therapeutic Option  (Feb 2004) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Use and Evaluate a Clinical Prediction Rule (Jun 2004) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Estimate Prognosis (Aug 2004) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Find the Current Best Evidence (Jan 2005) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Use a Clinical Practice Guideline (May 2005) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Address Clinical Questions of Harm (Mar 2006) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Find and Use a Systematic Review (Jul 2006) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Detect Misleading Claims in Clinical Research Reports (May 2007) • Evidence-Based Practice: How to Use an Article on the Clinical Manifestations of Disease (Jan 2008) Health Care Quality • Basic Principles Of Quality Measurement (Aug 1998) • Understanding The Role Of Quality Management Programs (Aug 1998) • Basic Principles And Applications Of CQI (Mar 1999) • Misuse Quality Problems  (Jun 2001) • Underuse Quality Problems  (Dec 2001) Information Management • How Handheld Computers Can Support Residency Program Director Effectiveness (Dec 2002) • Electronic Medical Records  (Dec 2002) • Implementing Resident Training In Handheld Computing (Dec 2002) • Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems: The Promise of Safer, Better Care (Oct 2004) Innovations In Resident Training • Gaps In Physician Training In Managed Care (Aug 1998) • Utilization Management Morning Report For Residents (Mar 2001) • Developing An Institution-Specific Palliative Care Curriculum  (Sep 2001) • Physician Profiling In A Residency Training Program (Jun 2002) • Near Miss Conference For Residents (Mar 2002) • Teaching Residents Patient-Centered Interviewing  (Jun 2002) Physician-Patient Relationship/Communication • The Physician-Patient Relationship In Managed Care (Aug 1998) • Reconciling Doctor And Patient Agendas (Dec 2000) • How To Respond To A Formal Patient Complaint (Jun 2001) • Tips For Communicating With Patients In Managed Care  (Jun 2001) • Defining The Skills Underlying Communication Competence  (Sep 2002) • Using Clinical Reasoning Skills To Improve Skills In Oral Case Presentation (Sep 2002) • Effective Physician Approaches to Support Self-Management  (Jul 2005) • Teaching Health Communication in a Family Medicine Residency Program (Jan 2006) • Effective Communication in the Inpatient Care Setting: An Essential Competency for Hospitalists  (May 2006) • Breaking Bad News: A Patient-Centered Approach to Delivering an Unexpected Cancer Diagnosis (Mar 2008) Physician Profiling • Development And Use Of Physician Profiling (Aug 1999) • Physician Profiling In A Residency Training Program (Dec 2001) • Current Trends In/Practical Guide To Physician Profiling (Dec 2001) Practice-Based Learning and Improvement • A Case-Based Approach to Teaching Practice-Based Learning and Improvement on the Wards  (Nov 2005) • Learning by Doing: Use of Resident-Led Quality Improvement Projects to Teach Clinical Practice Improvement (Oct 2006) • Improving DVT Prophylaxis in Hospitalized Patients: A Quality Improvement Project (Nov 2006) • Implementing the Chronic Care Model in an Academic Setting: A Resident's Perspective (Jan 2007) Professionalism/Ethics • Ethical Issues In Capitation  (Aug 1999) • Protection Of Patient Confidentiality (Mar 2000) • Ethical Issues In Patient/Physician Use Of The Internet And E-Mail  (Sep 2000) • Professional Dilemmas: Responding To A Patient Request To Provide Concurrent Care And To Withhold Specific Information From The Medical Record (Jun 2002) • Disclosing Medical Error: A Professional Standard (Apr 2004) • Basic Principles of Informed Consent in the Acute Care Setting (Mar 2005) • Approach to Routine Interactions with Industry: A Primer for Residents (Sep 2005) • The Dilemma of the Patient Who Wishes to Leave the Hospital Against Medical Advice (Mar 2007) • Managing End-of-Life Ethical Dilemmas in the Hospital (Sep 2007) • Clinical Ethical Decision Making: The Four Topics Approach (Nov 2008) Research Reports • Characteristics of General Internists Who Practice Only Outpatient Medicine: Results from the Physician Worklife Study  (Mar 2002) • Merging Old School Methods with New Technology to Improve Skills in Cardiac Auscultation  (May 2008) • The Influence of Patient Race and Socioeconomic Status and Resident Physician Gender and Specialty on Preventive Screening  (Jul 2008) Resident as Teacher • Resident as Teacher: Practical Tips to Enhance Feedback on the Fly (Nov 2007) Utilization Management • Physician Involvement In Clinical Resource Management (Aug 1998) • Pharmacy Management Trends/Benefit-Based Copays  (Mar 2000) • Basic Principles And Practices Of Utilization Management (Mar 2001) If you do not already have Acrobat Reader, simply click on the icon below, scroll down to the "Get the Free Acrobat Reader" heading and follow the instructions to install the program. 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