The Future of Family Medicine's Role in American Medicine.

Recharging Family Medicine: A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference.

A historic perspective of family medicine's development, the work of Gayle Stephens, and prior Keystone conferences constitute an important backdrop for the fourth Keystone Conference. Decisions made in the past constrain what can be done now, but they may also offer opportunities for family medicine. A major challenge for Keystone IV was to discern what is a constraint and what is an opportuni...

Social Determinants of Polypharmacy in First Generation Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Introduction: Socioeconomic status (SES) indicators are among the main social determinants of health and illness. Less, however, is known about the role of SES in the epidemiology of polypharmacy in immigrant Latino Americans living in the United States. This research studied the association between three SES indicators, education, income, and employment, and polypharmacy in ol...

100 years later: clarifying family medicine's role in medical student education.

Research published in 2003 by U.S. family medicine authors.

OBJECTIVES The discipline of family medicine seeks to build its research enterprise. To assess the state of family medicine research in the United States, this study identifies and describes research articles published by family medicine researchers from the United States in 2003 and assesses the growth in articles, authors, and publishing journals since 2000. METHODS We searched for all rese...

The contribution of physics to Nuclear Medicine: physicians’ perspective on future directions

BACKGROUND Advances in Nuclear Medicine physics enabled the specialty of Nuclear Medicine and directed research in other aspects of radiotracer imaging, ultimately leading to Nuclear Medicine's emergence as an important component of current medical practice. DISCUSSION Nuclear Medicine's unique ability to characterize in vivo biology without perturbing it will assure its ongoing role in a pra...