Commentary: Training Internists for Practice Focused on Meeting Patient Needs

Training for general practice: meeting the challenge.

In 1911 Sir William Osler in a letter to Ira Remsen, President of the Johns Hopkins University, said of the hospital specialist that 'he was cabined, cribbed, confined within the four walls of a hospital practising the fugitive and cloistered virtues of a clinical monk. How shall he, forsooth, train men for a race the dust and heat of which he knows nothing and this is a possibility! cares less...

Meeting commentary--"medicines for older adults: learning from practice to develop patient centric drug products".

A meeting jointly organised by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APSGB), the Geriatric Medicine Society and the UCL School of Pharmacy took place on the 13th of March 2013, in Stevenage, UK. The meeting was attended by a number of experts involved with the treatment and development of drugs for the older adult, including clinicians, pharmacists, academics, regulators and representatives f...

Commentary Meeting The Medical Needs Of Adults Public Psychiatric Facilities

workforce needs for internists in the islamic

internists contribute to the care of sizable populations for a vast variety of conditions. however, despite the importance of the need assessment for these specialists in iran remains uncharted. the purpose of this paper is to address this issue and to recommend further actions related to training of internists. internal medicine is a 4-year specialty program, for which candidates can take a sp...

General practice meeting the needs for psychiatric care in Croatia.

BACKGROUND In recent decades, general practitioners (GPs) have become critical components of mental health services. However, in Croatia the role of GPs in mental health services is still mostly perceived as "gate keeping", whereas seeking help for serious mental illnesses is mostly restricted to psychiatrists. The aim of this study is to investigate the practices and attitudes of family doctor...