PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED Rapid postpartum discharge has reduced opportunities to detect early newborn or parenting problems and to teach neonatal assessment and maternal postpartum care to medical trainees. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM Development of a program to not only ensure adequate care of mothers and newborns after early hospital discharge, but also to teach outpatient assessment skills to fami...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED A recently implemented model of care in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) called Care by Design addresses concerns about a previously uncoordinated care system, a reduction in family physician services, and high rates of ambulance transports to emergency departments. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM Care by Design is designed to increase access to care and continuity and quality of care...

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BACKGROUND There is limited understanding of the impact of Triple C competency-based curriculums on the preparation of residents for family practice. This paper describes a competency-based curriculum within an integrated longitudinal block design and presents preliminary evaluation data on the impact of this curriculum on preparedness for family practice. METHODS First and second year family...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate clients' satisfaction regarding health-care services and its determinant factors in South-West of Iran. METHODS Totally, 3400 households were randomly selected for this cross-sectional study, carried out in Shiraz, Iran, from December 2013 to March 2014. Data were collected using a checklist that includes insurance status of the household, enro...

Primary care is the foundation of the rural U.S. health care system. Thus, the willingness of rural primary care physicians to accept new Medicare patients is critically important to the Medicare program and to rural America's elderly. But universally consistent access to primary care physicians for Medicare beneficiaries may be in jeopardy. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) repo...

health care system is organized to achieve more efficiency as well as developing public equity and providing access to the first, second and third levels of services. family physician is in the first line of the health care system; in other words, family physician is the health system’s goalkeeper. according to classification of health services, gaining access to specialized services becomes po...

BACKGROUND Supervision of obstetric care by family practice faculty increases the likelihood that family practice residents will choose to practice obstetrics. METHODS A survey instrument was developed to obtain information about practice faculty and the educational setting in which residents learn family physician obstetric care. Questionnaires were sent to all family medicine residency dire...