Background: Behavioral, social, psychological and biological factors influence health and disease; and, to achieve professional competency, physicians should be knowledgeable about their society and its inhabitants' behavior. This knowledge will help physicians to become competent in communication, professional behavior, self-awareness, ethical reasoning, and understanding cultural and social d...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family physicians provide many office-based procedures in primary care settings. While first-trimester abortion is a procedure appropriate for and performed by family physicians, few residency programs offer routine training in this skill. This study explored the experience of residency programs that have initiated or are in the process of initiating required abortion ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES One factor cited for the decline of family physicians delivering babies is a lack of faculty role models during residency training. This study's purpose was to determine how many residency programs experience difficulty recruiting faculty who perform deliveries and whether financial or not financial compensation are associated with recruiting difficulties. METHODS Us...

Patients expect physicians to be lifelong learners who are able to interpret and evaluate diagnostic tests, and most medical schools list the development of lifelong learning in their program objectives. However, lecture is the most often utilized form of teaching in the first two years and is considered passive learning. The current generation of medical students has many characteristics that ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study compared the training programs and career paths of family medicine graduates in the National Research Service Award (NRSA) Program for Research in Primary Medical Care with general internal medicine and general pediatric peers. METHODS We mailed a survey to NRSA fellows graduating from 23 programs nationally between 1988-1997. Personal characteristics, fel...

1. Disaster Medicine Section, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA 2. Division of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts USA 3. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts USA 4. The Operational Medicine Institute, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, Boston, Massachusetts USA 5. Kennedy S...

BACKGROUND Leaders in medicine have called for transformative changes in healthcare to address systems challenges and improve the health of the public. The purpose of this study was to elicit the perspectives of students, faculty physicians and administrators regarding the knowledge and competencies necessary in an undergraduate leadership curriculum. METHODS A mixed-methods study was conduct...

The recent GMC guidance on confidentiality [1], especially the supplementary guidance [2], has caused much consternation amongst occupational physicians. The Faculty and Society of Occupational Medicine have issued a joint statement to members [3], and a GMC representative responded on the same day [4]. However, the 6 OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

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The Clinical Case of the Month is a regular educational feature presented by the Louisiana State University Department of Medicine. Medical students, residents, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty collaborate in the preparation of these discussions. After reading this article, physicians should be better able to understand the pathophysiology, prognosis, clinical presentation, and treatment of sy...