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Jim Buterakos, MSA; D. Kay Taylor, PhD

JAMA. 2000;283:2456.

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In the new millennium, Internet technology is changing the operations of health care and medical education. Sixth in Internet content, health sites draw two thirds of all online users at least once.¹ Health systems have responded by increasing their use of the Internet to foster growth.² The first article to suggest promoting residency programs and recruiting residents by creating a home page on the World Wide Web was published in 1997.³ A national survey, conducted the following year, of acute care hospitals showed an increase in Internet and home page use.⁴

At many hospitals in the Midwest, it can be a challenge to identify and recruit highly qualified resident physicians. To enhance the recruitment efforts of our hospital, which is located in a mid-sized city in Michigan, the director of graduate medical education set up a Web page and, since 1998, hits on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Hurley Medical Center
Flint, Mich

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