BillBill1219
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A vast majority of my colleagues go into hospital medicine upon graduating. Even those thinking of doing outpatient end up taking hospitalist jobs. My program is very inpatient heavy and the only exposure we get to primary care is our continuity clinic where we commonly see low-functioning, uninsured, uneducated, chronically co-morbid, often drug addicted patients. We get a taste of insurance company denials, mountainous levels of paperwork, and an outdated EMR (eCW). Could this lack of exposure to a properly run outpatient clinic be the reason so many choose to avoid clinic medicine? I am not terribly keen on the 7 on 7 off hospitalist schedule and would rather work more regular hours with no weekends or holidays but I can see the why my colleagues choose to stay 10,000 feet away from an outpatient clinic after graduation. So...is continuity clinic anything like the "real world"?