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ERIC Number: EJ434660
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1991
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Pre-employment Drug Testing of Housestaff Physicians at a Large Urban Hospital.
Lewy, Robert M.
Journal of Academic Medicine, v66 n10 p618-19 Oct 1991
The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (New York City) program of preemployment urine toxicology examinations for beginning housestaff physicians has resulted in treatment for two physicians testing positive for illegal drugs. The program's primary purpose is to focus on substance abuse issues in graduate medical education. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Drug Use Testing, Employment Qualifications, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education, Physicians, Professional Education, Program Descriptions, Screening Tests, Teaching Hospitals, Urban Areas
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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