Materials and Methods: This community-based cross-sectional study was carried out in Arkhali village, Amdanga Block, rural field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, among 235 elderly individuals aged ≥ 60 years during February to March 2014 by applying Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) questionnaire. Elderly ind...

BACKGROUND As preventive medicine is a cornerstone of managed care, most health plans have traditionally featured automatic vaccine coverage routed through the medical benefit. However, with the advent of emerging vaccines, managed care stakeholders must revise decision-making processes and choose among multiple products targeting the same disease. OBJECTIVE To review the motivating forces be...

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED Medication prescribing is becoming increasingly complex, and the need for formal curricula in pharmacotherapeutics and medication prescribing in accredited family medicine residency programs has been advocated. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The main objective of the pharmacotherapeutic curriculum is to support the development of family medicine residents' pharmacotherapeutic kn...

Characterizationofantimicrobial resistance inSalmonella enterica foodandanimal isolates fromColombia: identi¢cationofa qnrB19mediatedquinolone resistancemarker in twonovel serovars Maria Karczmarczyk, Marta Martins, Matthew McCusker, Salim Mattar, Leonard Amaral, Nola Leonard, Frank M. Aarestrup & Séamus Fanning Centres for Food Safety & Food-borne Zoonomics, UCD Veterinary Sciences Centre, Uni...

In 2003, the University of Hawai'i Department of Family Medicine & Community Health entered a 4-year cooperative agreement with the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to establish the "Pacific Association for Clinical Training" (PACT). PACT's goal is to develop effective distance education methods to improve the education and skills of healtcare professionals in the U.S.-Affiliat...

Postgraduate Family Medicine (FM) training is important to train future primary care doctors to provide accessible and cost effective healthcare. In Singapore, a structured postgraduate FM training programme has been available for 20 years. This programme is characterised by involvement of both FM and non-FM doctors, well written modules and a rigorous assessment process. However, challenges fa...

Sung Yong Lee, Eun Joo Kang, Gyu Young Hur, Ki Hwan Jung, Hye Cheol Jung, Sang Yeub Lee, Je Hyeong Kim, Chol Shin, Kwang Ho In, Kyung Ho Kang, Se Hwa Yoo, and Jae Jeong Shim Department of Internal Medicine, Guro Hospital, Korea University, Seoul; Department of Internal Medicine, Anam Hospital, Korea University, Seoul; and Department of Internal Medicine, Ansan Hospital, Korea University, Ansan,...

BACKGROUND Priority setting is one of the major issues in the health research system and no health system can afford to pay for every research they want to do, particularly in developing countries, so we decided to set the national main areas of the health research priorities. METHODS In this study, according to Essential National Health Research (ENHR) strategy and with cooperation of all th...

CONTEXT The value of reflective practices has gained momentum in osteopathic medical education. However, the use of reflective pedagogies has not been explored in the larger context of medical course delivery and design, to the authors' knowledge. OBJECTIVE To determine the types of reflection demonstrated by osteopathic medical students on an online discussion board and to explore difference...

BACKGROUND Infectious disease specialists who evaluate international travelers before or after their trips need skills to prevent, recognize, and treat an increasingly broad range of infectious diseases. Wide variation exists in training and percentage effort among providers of this care. In parallel, there may be variations in approach to pre-travel consultation and the types of travel-related...