There is a shortage of physicians to care for underserved populations. Medical educators at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University have used five years of Health Resources and Services Administration funding to train medical students to provide outstanding primary care for underserved populations. The grant has two major goals: 1) to increase the number of graduating medical stude...

T implementation of health care reform in the United States will add to the growing demand for primary care physicians. Only about a third of active physicians in this country currently practice primary care medicine, and the proportion would probably shrink if the only source of new primary care physicians were graduates of U.S. allopathic medical schools, since only 16 to 18% of those graduat...

BACKGROUND Utilisation of the electronic medical record (EMR) is believed to facilitate timely access to patient information, enhance communication between care team members and further promote clinical decision support. OBJECTIVE To determine if pharmacist-generated electronic consults (e-consults) improve blood pressure control among patients with uncontrolled hypertension in a multisite he...

reproductive behavior of 1525 pregnant woman were studied in the time of termination of pregnancy in relation to maternal age, education, prenatal care and the number of previous pregnancies. the results show that the frequency of maternal attendance at the centers of prenatal care is significantly related to maternal education. and the total pregnancies per woman are inversely correlated with ...

Health-care educators share the social responsibility to teach medical students about social determinants of health and health-care disparities and subsequently to encourage medical students to pursue residencies in primary care and medical practice in underserved communities. Free clinics provide care to underserved communities, yet collaborative partnerships with such organizations remain lar...

BACKGROUND The reduced number of hospital beds and an ageing population have resulted in growing demands for home nursing. We know very little about the comprehensive care of these patients. The objectives were to identify the care, in addition to primary health care, of patients with primary-care home nursing to give a comprehensive view of their care and to investigate how personal, social an...

Medical education in India was introduced by the British several decades ago. Since that time, it has been on the path of evolution, albeit rather slowly. Several changes have been made at regular intervals to the curricula of undergraduate medical teaching, including shortening the duration of basic sciences training, introducing vertical and horizontal integration, and early clinical exposure...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To develop a standardized framework to discuss rural background, a review of the literature to identify studies regarding the association of rural background with primary care and/or rural health practice was conducted. The various definitions of rural background were collated and from this data a framework for the conceptualization of rural background is proposed. M...

Family-centered, coordinated, comprehensive, and culturally competent care for children and youth with special healthcare needs is a national priority. Access to a primary care medical home is a US Maternal and Child Health Bureau performance measure. Most primary care practices lack methods by which to partner with families and improve care. Gaps remain in the number of children with access to...