Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:The Culture of Health Care
Unit:Health Professionals The People in Health Care
Lecture:Introduction and Physicians
Non-clinical IT/Informatics Roles for Clinicians
Effects of Changing Care Models on Clinicians
Slide content:Physician 2.1 Figure: Hickman, 2010. Retrieved from Author. Used with Permission. 9
Slide notes:Education for a physician typically includes four years of college and four years of medical school. The medical school can be either allopathic [al-uh- path - ik ] (medical doctor) or osteopathic [ os -tee-uh- path - ik ] (doctor of osteopathy [ os -tee- op - ath - ee ]). After medical school, physicians typically pursue three to five years of training in a specialty. Fellowship training provides an additional one to three years of study to gain expertise in a subspecialty. 9