Family Medicine Forum

Forum for Internal Medicine

FORUM FOR INTERNAL MEDICINE On the lesser importance of internal medicine Introduction Internal medicine constitutes a unique medical specialty. Not only does it include both outand in patient care, but also involves acute cases and life -threatening conditions. Subjectively, in my view, internal medicine is the essence of medicine, and all the attempts at the reduction of the physician’s role ...

Occupational medicine forum.

The Occupational Medicine Forum is prepared by the ACOEM Occupational and Environmental Medical Practice Committee and does not necessarily represent an official ACOEM position. The Forum is intended for health professionals and is not intended to provide medical or legal advice, including illness prevention, diagnosis or treatment, or regulatory compliance. Such advice should be obtained direc...

55-word stories: a collection from the 32nd forum for behavioral science in family medicine.

From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester (Dr Fogarty); Department of Family Medicine, University of South Alabama (Dr Bogar); Department of Family Medicine, Swedish Medical Center (Dr Costello); Department of Family Medicine, Mercy Health System (Dr Greenfield); and Forbes Family Medicine Residency Program, West Penn Allegheny Health System (Dr Neely). 55-Word Stories: A ...

[Family medicine].

11th Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Research Forum

With author permission, seven selected abstracts are printed below and the remainder are published online at www.westjem.org. Objectives: To evaluate emergency medicine (EM) residents' ability to detect ocular pathology using portable ultrasound (US) in a live porcine model. Methods: This was a single-blinded outcome study to determine both the validity of a live porcine model to evaluate ocula...