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A1 Kawasumi Y, Ernst P, Abrahamowicz M, Tamblyn R
T1 ASsociation between physician competence at licensure and the quality of asthma management among patients with out-of-control asthma
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD July 25
VO 171
IS 14
SP 1292
OP 1294
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.319
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.319
AB 
Effective management of asthma requires mastery of a number of interrelated physician skills. There is an increasing effort to directly teach these skills, particularly collaborative communication with patients, in medical school and specialty training programs. In 1993, Canada was the first country to require successful demonstration of clinical and communication skills on national medical licensure examination.3 The United States enacted the same requirement in 2005.4 Our objective was to determine whether higher scores in medical knowledge and clinical and communication skills would be associated with the quality and outcomes of management for patients with poorly controlled asthma in the first 1 to 8 years in practice, after adjusting for differences in patient, physician, and practice characteristics.