Women's health and managed care: implications for the training of primary care physicians.

Abstract

The growth of managed care is changing the practice of medicine; it has a direct impact on the quality of care offered to women and may erode gains made in the field of women's health. Graduate medical education must be transformed if women's health is to be effectively represented in the evolving health care system. An interdisciplinary primary care specialty in women's health is the best strategy for preparing physicians to deliver cost-effective comprehensive care to women in a changing health care marketplace.