BACKGROUND The degree to which the family medicine literature articulates unique family practice approaches and perspectives that are distinct from other primary care specialties has not been well studied. To determine how often a family practice perspective is included in clinical articles in the family medicine literature, we performed a family medicine journal review. METHODS We reviewed 1...

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The primary focus of literature’s first decade as part of the formal curriculum of some American medical schools (1972–81) was on teaching literary works to help develop students’ capacity for empathy, to enhance their skills in interpretation, and to complement the teaching of traditional medical ethics. These early concerns of literature and medicine have been discussed in the eight previous ...