Medical education in sub-Saharan Africa must be defined by its health needs and the health care services required. The sociodemographic milieu that determines the disease pattern makes a compelling case for primary health care in the context of community participation and multisector community development as the driver of a plan for medical education, in tandem with clinicians' role in continui...

Pediatric Annals has been a premier continuing medical education resource for the general pediatrician for the last 40 years. For the past 14 years, as Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Stanford T. Shulman and his Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Listernick, and their contributors have done an excellent job of keeping practitioners current with clinically relevant, thoughtful articles that have been presented i...

BACKGROUND The Practice Support Program (PSP) is an innovative peer-to-peer continuing medical education (CME) program that offers full-service family physicians/general practitioners (GPs) in British Columbia (BC), Canada, post-graduate training on a variety of topics. We present the evaluation findings from the PSP learning module on enhancing end-of-life (EOL) care within primary care. MET...

BACKGROUND Family Medicine/General Practice (FM/GP) has not developed in a similar way worldwide. In countries that are not primary care oriented, the discipline of FM/GP may be less developed because this is not a career option for medical graduates. In such a situation, FM/GP will not be regarded as a required clinical experience during medical school. OBJECTIVES To define the 'minimal requ...

BACKGROUND Differential diagnosis is a crucial skill for primary care physicians. General practice plays an increasing important role in undergraduate medical education. Via general practice, students may be presented with an overview of the whole spectrum of differential diagnosis in regard to common symptoms encountered in primary care. This project evaluated the impact of a blended learning ...

BACKGROUND Research networks formalize and institutionalize multi-site collaborations by establishing an infrastructure that enables network members to participate in research, propose new studies, and exploit study data to move the field forward. Although practice-based clinical research networks are now widespread, medical education research networks are rapidly emerging. AIMS In this artic...

Background Participation of private practitioners in routine disease surveillance in India is minimal despite the fact that they account for over 70% of the primary healthcare provision. We aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of private practitioners in the city of Pune toward disease surveillance. Our goal was to identify what barriers and facilitators determine their ...

Introduction During the past decade, demands for eVective quality assessment in primary health care have increased considerably. “The third revolution of medical care” has seen a move towards more rigorous assessment of clinical interventions and increasing calls for more accountability. Although most agree that quality improvement is important there are many views about the best approach to qu...

OBJECTIVE To determine, based on international guidelines for asthma management, the appropriateness of the treatment that the Unified Health Care System provides to patients with asthma. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study involving patients suspected of having asthma and referred to the Pulmonology Clinic of the Federal University of Minas Gerais Hospital das Clínicas, Brazil, between ...