This first edition of Continuing Medical Education for General Practitioners contains a foreword, preface, list of nine contributors, list of boxes and figures, table of contents, three parts, 12 chapters, 30 boxes, three figures, references, and an index. The book is presented as a ix + 163 page A5 soft cover publication. Although some chapters have embedded some definitions of terms, there is...

A continuing education program for the general practitioner is presented that would provide a degree or certificate of advanced status on completion. This long-term program would be made possible by giving credit hours for continuing education courses taken, then redeeming these credits for the certificate or degree on completion. The dentist's choice in continuing education programs is protect...

The general practitioner is in a privileged position with regards to illness in the community. He is usually the first person that people bring their symptoms to and hence he generally sees illnesses in their earliest stages. This is especially so in an urban setting with the greater concentration of practitioners and the general acceptance of doctors as primary care professionals. Greater skil...

(Fam Med 2003;35(3):160-2.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Michael Grover, DO, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, Calif, expands on one of the principles of the “One Minute Preceptor.” I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourage all predoctoral dir...

BACKGROUND The 1990 contract for general practitioners altered the provision of continuing medical education. AIM This study set out to examine doctors' experiences of postgraduate education before and after the contract and their preferences for the provision of postgraduate education. METHOD In 1991 a structured questionnaire was sent to 1959 doctors registered on the database held by the...

BACKGROUND The 1990 Contract encouraged general practitioners to participate in continuing medical education by providing a financial incentive. AIM The study was designed: to determine the motivation of general practitioners attending education events; and to compare motivation and reasons for attendance pre- and post-Contract at commercial and non-commercial meetings, and at the different e...

This project was concerned with the clinical knowledge reported by general practitioners in relation to the diagnosis and management of seven common clinical conditions: acute otitis media, jaundice, iron-deficiency anaemia, transient cerebral vascular insufficiency, infectious mononucleosis, pulmonary infarction, and carcinoma of the prostate. Postal questionnaires were sent to three groups of...

Forces within and outside the field of medicine are impelling new trends in psychiatric services. One of the major trends seen during the last few decades is a change from "close" to "open" system of psychiatric care with a resultant change from traditional autocratic, seclusive mental hospital system to an "open" system with a wide range of flexibility. General hospital psychiatry is a part of...