Background Family medicine is often selected as an alternate career choice by medical students who do not match to their first choice discipline. Consequently, family medicine residency programs accept and train some residents who prepared for and intended a career in another specialty. The implications of this warrant investigation. Methods Graduates (2006-2011) of Albertan family medicine r...

This study was performed to examine the role of harsh parental discipline in mediating and moderating the effects of environmental adversity (family socioeconomic disadvantage and adverse life events) on emotional and behavioral problems across early-to-middle childhood. The sample included 16,916 children (48% female; 24% non-White) from the U.K.'s Millennium Cohort Study. We analyzed trajecto...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether the discipline (family medicine vs other specialty) of formally assigned faculty advisors affected medical student experience and career interest. DESIGN Survey. SETTING University of Calgary in Alberta. PARTICIPANTS A total of 104 medical students from the graduating class of 2011. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Number of times medical students met with their adviso...

THE problem of finding and defining the ethos of general practice is not solved by l giving a new name to the discipline. The search for a new name is rather a symptom of the uneasiness that general practitioners experience when they come to look for what is special or separate in their department of medical practice. One name in particular has gained currency-'the family doctor'. The purpose o...

Family medicine as a discipline in Canada has come of age; we are now 58 years old. We have grown and reached maturity, and can stand tall articulating what we do, what our specialty is, and how we uniquely contribute to patient care. Governments have taken notice with commitments to primary care reform. National research agencies have stepped up to the plate issuing calls for programmatic rese...

although gender justice, is considered a foreign subject in social & legal institutions and it is often taken into consideration theoretically, operationally due to the amalgamation of cultures and its unrefined foundation it has been faced with challenges, so that it requires explanation in terms of attitudes and approaches based on local & islamic culture. in monotheistic creed, unity parity ...

This study, guided by the Family Systems Theory, examines the direct effect of maternal use of corporal punishment on children's adjustment difficulties. Also, it explores whether corporal punishment serves as a mediating factor in the relationship between several maternal characteristics, marital relationships, and children's adjustment difficulties. A total of 2,447 Arab mothers completed ano...