INTRODUCTION The ongoing rural doctor workforce shortage continues to stimulate interest in new strategies to alleviate the situation. Alongside increasingly promising approaches is the notion that attracting and nurturing the 'right' individuals may be paramount to achieving long-term success in recruitment and retention. This study compares the patterns of demographic and temperament and char...

INTRODUCTION Smokers receiving support in specialist centers tend to have a higher short-term quit rate, compared with those receiving support in other settings from professionals for whom smoking cessation is only a part of their work. We investigated the difference in longer-term abstinence after short-term smoking cessation treatment from specialist and nonspecialist smoking cessation servic...

BACKGROUND Family practice residency programs are based largely on a model implemented more than 30 years ago. Substantial changes in medical practice, technology, and knowledge necessitate reassessment of how family physicians are prepared for practice. METHODS We simultaneously surveyed samples of family practice residency directors, first-year residents, and family physicians due for their...

BACKGROUND Diet has been proposed to modulate the risk of asthma in children and adults. An increasing body of epidemiological studies have been published in the last year investigating the association between dietary intake and asthma. As part of the Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline Task Force on 'Lifestyle Interventions in Allergy and Asthma' funded by the European Academy of Allerg...

No study of psychiatric morbidity in general practices is reported in India. A three phase study of psychiatric morbidity in General practice is nearing completion in a group general practice in Bangalore. This preliminary report covering the available data from the first phase indicates a psychiatric morbidity of about 36% in general practice.

IL LU ST R A TI O N B Y B ET H A N N T H O R N B U R G H The dynamics of today’s health care environment make it increasingly complicated to ensure adequate physician incomes while running a highquality medical practice. Physicians and managers are faced with increasing overhead, discounted fees, a shortage of qualified and motivated staff, and growing service expectations from their patients. ...

BACKGROUND In 2009, we began recruiting dental practitioners across Germany to participate in a clinical trial to evaluate the clinical performance of EQUIA, a new glass ionomer restoration material. The aim of this paper is to discuss the outcomes of the dental practitioner recruitment and outline the process of establishing a practice-based research network. METHODS Study proposals were sen...

OBJECTIVES To explore stakeholders' perceptions of learners teaching (near-peer teaching) in general practice in order to inform training policy. DESIGN Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 general practice stakeholders. Interviews continued until data saturation was reached. Transcribed interviews underwent thematic analysis. SETTING Nine general practices in NSW, ...

The content of general practice (GP) is changing. The concepts of polypharmacy and multimorbidity, particularly among older patients, are becoming common in our practice as well as being the focus of research among our GP colleagues.[1–5] Furthermore, calls for screening and diagnosing that do not actually help our patients are increasingly an issue brought up in our clinical work. Words like m...