of planning. according to the family physician’s idea, evaluating programs in order to improve them is one of the necessities of promoting quality and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of continuing education. this study aimed to determine family physicians’ educational needs regarding health and its applicability in continuous medical education in fasa university of medical sciences. ...

background: access to family physicians plays an important role in individuals' health and health indicators. this study aimed to determine the effect of family physicians lodge on performance indicators of rural family physicians working in health centers of jiroft and kerman universities of medical sciences. methods: in this cross - sectional study conducted in 2013, 26 lodge physicians (as t...

OBJECTIVE To explore how students learn in community-based family physicians' offices from the student's point of view. METHOD Each student completing a community-based family medicine clerkship wrote a "critical incident" narrative about an event that was particularly educational. A coding system was developed by a multidisciplinary research team and thematic analysis was conducted. RESULT...

Introduction: Otolaryngology is a field with a high referral rate; however, there is a dearth of research on the quality of referral letters written in this field. This study was carried out to explicitly assess the quality of referral letters, more specifically in the field of otology.   Materials and Methods: Two otologists assessed referral letters written by general ...

introduction: the family physician program has been implemented with the effort of the country's officials since 2005in the villages and towns with populations under 20,000 people to performe comfortable and convenient access to health services.the aim of this research was to  study knowledge and attitude of rural population toward the family physician program in rural regions of shahr-e kord. ...

in response to the questioning of health policy and management (hpam) by colleagues on the role of rank and file family physicians in the same journal, the author, a family physician in belgium, is trying to highlight the complexity and depth of the work of his colleagues and their contribution to the understanding of the organization and economy of healthcare. it addresses, in particular, the ...

A 2002 discussion paper 1 clearly outlined the difference between simple, complicated, and complex problems and provided analogies that have become part of our everyday language. The authors1 characterized simple tasks as being like following a recipe: recipes are essential; they are tested to assure easy replication; no expertise is required, but having some increases success; recipes produce ...

the concept of quaternary prevention (p4) refers to the idea that medicine has acquired the ability to damage through the proper exercise. family medicine or general practice has the duty of recovering the ethical values and the exercise of a profession with the doctor-patient relationship serving to people’s humanity. in the fourth congress of family and community medicine, held in montevideo ...

www.aafp.org / fpm ■ F A M I L Y P R A C T I C E M A N A G E M E N T ■ 23 IL LU ST R A TI O N B Y J O H N F R ET Z Nonphysician providers of many stripes now work in family practices. This includes a variety of midlevel providers, nurses and medical assistants, among others. One way Medicare recognizes these individuals for payment purposes is by reimbursing physicians for services provided “in...