Need to teach family medicine concepts even before establishing such practice in a country

Need to teach family medicine concepts even before establishing such practice in a country

BACKGROUND The practice of family medicine is not well established in many developing countries including Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Government funds and runs the health facilities which cater to the health needs of a majority of the population. Services of a first contact doctor delivered by full time, vocationally trained, Family Physicians is generally overshadowed by outpatient departments o...

Family medicine practice in rural any-country.

Psychological Medicine in Family Practice

Business Relationship Digitization: What Do We Need to Know Before Embarking on Such Activities?

Managers involve their companies in different types of business relationships for various reasons. These include but are not limited to efficiency gains, innovation, and influencing other organizations. In the age of digitization, managers have witnessed new ways to manage business relationships as the number of digital and electronic commerce tools have mushroomed. Business relationships digit...

Using standardized patient encounters to teach longitudinal continuity of care in a family medicine clerkship

BACKGROUND Despite demonstrated benefits of continuity of care, longitudinal care experiences are difficult to provide to medical students. A series of standardized patient encounters was developed as an innovative curricular element to address this gap in training for medical students in a family medicine clerkship. The objective of this paper is to describe the development and implementation ...