Towards Better General Practice

Towards a better diagnosis of throat infections (with group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus) in general practice.

BACKGROUND Sore throat is a common complaint in general practice. However, management strategies are not very clear. A better diagnostic procedure is needed to prevent the overuse of antibiotics. AIM To assess the diagnostic value of a rapid streptococcal antigen detection test in addition to four clinical features in patients with sore throat, using throat culture and antibody titres as refe...

The case of 'protective fever and chest signs': towards a better understanding of general practice databases.

General practice databases provide researchers with information about the realities of primary care. Empirical data of GPs’ care of patients is a key resource in primary care research, and it is a positive sign that this trend is increasing in the worldwide health science community. In a number of countries, robust general practice databases are emerging which serve as an infrastructure for stu...

Attitude of medical students towards general practice and general practitioners.

BACKGROUND The stimuli for this work came from the need to identify and understand the origin of students' attitudes towards general practice in the context of undergraduate curriculum reform and concerns about recruitment. AIM To evaluate attitudes of medical students towards general practice as a specialty and general practitioners (GPs) as doctors and explore factors influencing students' ...

Patient participation groups in general practice: building better partnerships.

Towards Better Understanding of Transfer in Cognitive Models of Practice

Achieving transfer – the ability to apply acquired skills in contexts different from those contexts the skills were mastered in – is, arguably, the sine qua non of education. Capturing transfer of knowledge has been addressed by several user modeling and educational data mining approaches (e.g., AFM, PFA, CFA). While similar, these approaches use different underlying structures to model transfe...