PROBLEM ADDRESSEDFewer medical students are choosing careers in family medicine across Canada. One way to cultivate student interest is through creation of family medicine interest groups. Students, residents, community-based family physicians, and academic faculty can all ...
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The study determined the extent to which institutions funded through the Departments grant program have met the objectives of assisting to establish, maintain and/or improve family medicine academic units which are comparable in status, faculty and curric...
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We now have good information about family medicine in terms of content, principles, and practice load. Undergraduate, residency and continuing education are improving, but some family medicine programs still have limited support from their university's faculty and governments. Residency in-training assessment and ...
The current renaissance of interest in primary care could benefit from reviewing the history of federal investment in academic family medicine. The authors review 30 years of experience with the Title VII, Section 747 Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (Title VII) grant program, addressing three ...
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PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED: The continuing shortage of rural family physicians in Canada. PURPOSE OF PROGRAM: To further develop training for rural family practice so that adequate numbers of rural family physicians will be appropriately prepared. MAIN COMPONENTS OF PROGRAM: All family medicine ...
The output of family medicine research in developing countries varies vastly from country to country and also within countries. Most research originates from academic departments of family medicine or from collaborative initiatives with researchers in developed countries. There is generally a ...
, and Community-based Clinical Teaching Sites Compare? Academic Medicine (In Press). 9. Carney, PA, Poor DA Community-Based Faculty: Education, Research and the Costs of Success. Academic Medicine; 2002 Dyad of Medical Student and Community Preceptor. Society of Teachers of Family ...
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Fifty years ago family practice in Canada had no academic presence. Stimulated by a number of general practitioners and with the support of the Canadian Medical Association, the College of General Practitioners of Canada (CGPC) was founded in 1954. In 1962, conferences on education for general practice attended by the Association of Canadian Medical ...
In 2006, a national research project was initially designed in Spain, with the basic aim of analysing the level of information on Primary Care that is available to medical students, their perception of the role of family medicine in the health system, and professional practice preferences, as well as the opinion expressed on the usefulness and need of ...
PROBLEM ADDRESSEDThe Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Alberta has used academic sessions and clinical-based teaching to prepare residents for private practice. Before the new curriculum, academic sessions were large group lectures given by specialists. These sessions lacked consistent quality, ...
The Wonca Working Party for Women and Family Medicine (WWPWFM) was organized in 2001 with the following objectives: to identify the key issues for women doctors; to review Wonca policies and procedures for equity and transparency; to provide opportunities to network at meetings and through the group's listserve and website; and to promote women doctors' ...
Research is just one part of an academic physician's activities, which also include teaching, patient care, and administration. Research productivity, however, is still expected for academic advancement and to enhance family medicine as an academic discipline. The five units of Laval ...
: Work and family issues in academic medicine Linda H. Chaudron, M.D., M.S. David R. Lambert, M to resources for medical educators Scott M. Tripler, M.D. Donna Berryman, M.L.I.S. Concept Mapping and Assessment Anne C. Nofziger, M.D. Linda L. Spillane, M.D. Women in Academic Medicine: Graceful ...
The specialty of family medicine arose out of a combination of American public and professional concerns regarding fragmentation of health care and was intended to foster a type of physician with a scope of clinical competence that would allow the patient, not the disease, to be the focus. Family physicians serve as the patient's ...
in a fair and equitable manner; d. Communicate truthfully with patients, learners, academic and nonacademic of others including, but not limited to, refraining from making unwanted romantic or sexual overtures exploitation of relationships with patients, research participants, colleagues, learners, or their families
in stroke and cerebral palsy patients -- and develop more targeted therapies to treat them. Reaching's academic home, the Department of Family and Commu- nity Medicine also houses classroom and training space
. Leonard J. Haas, Professor (Clinical) of Family & Preventive Medicine, member of faculty for 26 years.S.W., 1998, University of Denver 18. Ms. Shannon S. Andersen, 1987, University of Utah 19. Mr. Jed W. Hale, M
The American College of Physicians, Society of Hospital Medicine, and Society of General Internal Medicine convened a multi-stakeholder consensus conference in July 2007 to address the quality gaps in the transitions between inpatient and outpatient settings and to develop consensus standards for these transitions. Over 30 organizations sent ...
There continues to be a shortage of primary care physicians practicing within urban, Iower-socioeconomic and minority communities despite the fact that many of the 125 allopathic and 19 osteopathic medical schools are located within the affected urban cities. Recognizing a need to better train and recruit primary care physicians to serve in urban settings and provide care to those underserved. The ...
BACKGROUND To lay the groundwork for the development of a comprehensive strategy to transform and renew the specialty of family medicine, this Future of Family Medicine task force was charged with identifying the core values of family medicine, developing proposals to ...
The Nutrition Academic Award received by Tufts University School of Medicine strengthened our first-year Nutrition and Medicine course and clearly resulted in more nutrition in third-year clerkships and residency programs. Standardized patient cases in nutrition counseling for cardiovascular disease and weight loss were developed and ...
BACKGROUND For family physicians to be prepared to deliver the core attributes and system services of family medicine in the future, especially within the New Model of family medicine that has been proposed, changes will need to be made in how family physicians are trained. ...
College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine TO: All Family and Community COMMUNITY CLINICAL FACULTY MEMBER in the DEPT. OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE Mail the items listed below letter requesting an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor of ...
AbstractObjectiveTo compare the academic performance of students who entered family medicine residency programs with that of students who entered other disciplines and discern whether or not family physicians are as academically talented as their colleagues in other ...
; Consultant, Out-Patient and Consultation-Liaison Services, H�pital Ste-Justine. Suman Fernando, M.D., Hon Professor, Department of Family Medicine. Ellen Rosenberg, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Family
Cooper, Space Physics Research Lab, CoE Sabrina Cooper, Cancer Center, UMHS Traci Cooper, School, Department of Family Medicine, Medical School Stephen Eberle, Digital Media Commons, Academic & Budget-M-Flint Velesa Landrum, Briarwood Family Medical Center, UMHS Cindy Lane, Administration, Medical School ...
An invitational conference led by the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca) involving selected delegates from 34 countries was held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, March 8 to12, 2003. The conference theme was �Improving Health Globally: The Necessity of Family Medicine Research.� Guiding conference discussions was the value ...
The current shifts in academics not only invite new challenges but create previously unexplored opportunities for unique discoveries in health. Leaders in academic departments must consider changes in academic medicine as new courses to be charted rather than an inevitable shifting of the ground beneath them. Under ...
FAMILY MEDICINE* Definition Of Family medicine is the medical specialty which provides continuing the biological, clinical and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system and every disease entity. (1986) (2003) ...
Objective: A unique rotation was developed to address limited outpatient internal medicine training in psychiatric residency by the University of California, Davis, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, which provides medical care to patients with mental illness. Methods: The number of patients seen by the service and the number of psychiatric consults was ...
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ABSTRACTOBJECTIVETo examine the practice patterns and clinical and academic roles of family physicians who have care of the elderly training.DESIGNCross-sectional survey.SETTING Family medicine practices or specialized geriatric services programs.PARTICIPANTS Fifty-two family physicians, ...
PROBLEM ADDRESSED Many faculty development programs are thought time-consuming and inaccessible to academic family physicians or physicians wanting to move into academic positions. This is largely due to difficulty in leaving their practices for extended periods. Canadian family medicine needs ...
Academic health centers (AHCs) must change dramatically to meet the changing needs of patients and society, but how to do this remains unclear. The purpose of this supplement is to describe ways in which departments of family medicine can play leadership roles in helping AHCs evolve. This overview provides background for case studies ...
Constructing academic genealogies involves the practice of creating family trees based on doctoral advisors, that is, the advisor-graduate student relationship replaces the father-son relationship. Forestry academic genealogies document the historical development of forestry and quantify the contributions of other disciplines. In this ...
PURPOSE This Future of Family Medicine task force report proposes a plan for lifelong learning that is designed to ensure family physicians are prepared to deliver the core attributes and system services of family medicine throughout their careers, especially within the New Model of ...
OBJECTIVE: To identify the computer knowledge, skills and attitudes of first-year family medicine residents. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey of family medicine residents during the academic year 1993-94; sampling began in July 1993 and ended in October 1993. SETTING: Canada. PARTICIPANTS: All ...
Acknowledging the growing disparities in health and health care that exist among immigrant families and minority populations in large urban communities, the UCLA Department of Family Medicine (DFM) sought a leadership role in the development of family medicine training and community-based ...
I would end with some summarizing points and questions. 1. A majority of women identify gender-related issues influencing their career choices and pathways. 2. Women are diverse in their choices and priorities, with varying balances of personal and professional life. 3. Eighty-three percent of the women responding to the survey have married, and 82% of those married have children. They thus are ...
ABSTRACTPROBLEM ADDRESSEDThe new family health teams (FHTs) in Ontario were designed to enable interprofessional collaborative practice in primary care; however, many health professionals have not been trained in an interprofessional environment.OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM To provide health professional learners with an interprofessional practice experience in primary care that ...
1 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING ACADEMIC of consideration of extenuating circumstances affecting students' academic performance. 1 Principles The policy extenuating circumstances in mitigation of poor academic performance should receive a fair hearing
Women now constitute 43% of US medical students, 37% of residents, and 27% of full-time medical school faculty. Less than 11% of women faculty are full professors, however, compared to 31% of men, and these proportions haven't changed in more than 15 years. Since the proportion of women reaching the top ranks remains relatively low, the pool of women available for leadership positions in ...
There has been increasing, worldwide dissatisfaction with the relevance of medical education to health care. Recently, a special task group set up by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners made a study of how a department of personal and family medicine could participate in the education of the medical student. The task was to present first ...
The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) is supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) education mission through a comprehensive Education and Public Outreach Program (EPOP) that communicates the excitement and significance of space biology to schools, families, and lay audiences. The EPOP is comprised of eight ...
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UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE CHAIR OF RURAL HEALTH of Family Medicine and the School of Public Health as well as the Deanery is appreciated. In terms of staff as Administrator in the Department of Family Medicine in November ...
Each medical discipline has its pioneers. Therefore, the young academic medical discipline of general practice has many founding fathers. Their approach to and their activities in their profession of primary care were quite different. In the present article, we look back at some of the most outstanding colleagues and their achievements. Our hypothesis is that the knowledge of ...
Fifty patients of an academic family medicine unit tried standing and squalting in second stage. Almost all (84.0%) of the women were able to deliver in an upright posture. They rated the upright position as safer, more comfortable, and more effective than the recumbent position. When compared with 136 similar deliveries from the same ...
Each generation has an obligation to remind succeeding ones about the people, ideas, and events that have gotten us to this point. This essay and an accompanying oral history trace the origins of family medicine through the life of someone who helped found it�John P. Geyman, MD. He is one of the most published family physicians in ...
PURPOSE: Do residents in family medicine practice share decision making with patients during consultations? This study used a validated scale to score family medicine residents' shared decision-making (SDM) skills in primary care consultations and to determine whether residents' demographic characteristics were ...
BackgroundPrimary care research has recently garnered greater attention at the national level. Yet, primary care (i.e., family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology) departments within academic institutions struggle to develop and sustain strong research frameworks.MethodsThis paper ...
he Department of Family and Preventive Medicine is comprised of a unique blend of interdisciplinary researchers and clinicians dedicated to. ...
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We surveyed the clerkship administrators of pediatrics, family medicine, and internal medicine at U.S. medical schools, and of pediatrics at Canadian medical schools to determine what rewards and incentives are being offered to nonsalaried faculty for office-based teaching. Monetary payment was offered by 13% to 22% of the programs. ...
The Non Conventional Medicines have a greater social impact and the demand for such treatments of more than 10 million Italian citizens (male and female) of all ages and social classes and of thousands of Italian families reveals an interest proving that there is a trend reversal, involving also other sectors of the medical and scientific world, which ...
Oka Kenkai began practicing medicine in Shimonoseki following the conclusion of his training in western medicine in Nagasaki. He lived there from early spring in the 12th year of the Bunsei Era until mid-March of the following year. During that time, he wrote the "Oka-jyoyoho" and completed a translation of the "Seiki-ron". In addition, Kenkai established ...
Personalized Medicine Research, Third Party Protection, Family Structure Attacks, Genotype-Phenotype Inference
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