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Showing 1 to 20 of 943 for “"Family Medicine"”.
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Family medicine patients and mental health referrals: implications for primary care physicians
… investigation of the likelihood of compliance by family medicine patients if their Primary Care Physician (PCP) referred them to mental health treatment. Participants were 116 adults who were at the Family Medicine Center (FMC) in Fort Collins, Colorado, for medical appointments. Participants …
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Behavioral Style Indicators of Communication and Professionalism in a Family Medicine Residency
… of Communication and Professionalism for family medicine residents. DiSC profile reports, and ACGME Milestone Project Communication and Professionalism competency scores were used as predictive variables for the purpose of this study. Data were collected from the University of Kentucky …
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The Attainment of Obstetrical Competency in Postgraduate Family Medicine Training: A Qualitative Study
Aims: This study explored the Family Medicine resident experience in working towards their obstetrical competencies from the perspectives of residents and educators. Methods: Using a qualitative descriptive design, semi-structured interviews were conducted with second-year Family Medicine residents …
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Shared Care and Teaching: A Longitudinal Study of Combined Family Medicine and Surgery Skin Clinic
… yet inconsistently achieved skill within Family Medicine training. This gap is magnified by increasing skin cancer incidence and lengthening wait times for tertiary-level cancer care. STUDY AIMS: This study aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate an interdisciplinary educational …
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AN ANALYSIS OF TALK AND INTERACTIONS IN INITIAL SESSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF COUNSELING AND FAMILY MEDICINE
… in two professions, counselor education and family medicine. The naturally occurring, audio and/or video-recorded data regarding initial sessions conducted by trainees in both professions were used to explore three overarching questions: (1) How are the conversations between trainees and …
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Exploring the perceived impact of a leadership training module on clinical family medicine practice: a qualitative study
Background: Family physicians are the senior clinicians responsible for clinical governance in the District Health System. Their training programmes must prepare them for the leadership roles they are expected to fulfil. At the University of Cape Town, family medicine registrars enrolled in a …
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Roles and Responsibilities of Behavioral Science Faculty on Inpatient Medicine Settings
Behavioral science faculty (BSF) who work in family medicine residency education find themselves in inpatient medicine teaching service settings. However, there is limited research on the roles and responsibilities that BSF fill while working in inpatient medicine teaching services within family …
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Relationship Between Senior Clinical Competency Exam, Resident Readiness Survey, and ACGME Milestones
… institution who matched into three specialties (Family Medicine [FM], Emergency Medicine [EM], and Internal Medicine [IM]) over a two-year period and compared these results to mapped ACGME milestone assessments and the AAMC Resident Readiness Survey (RRS). A linear regression model was created to …
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Re-imagining doctor-patient relationships in an African context: a transformative educational perspective
… and the development of the widely accepted (in Family Medicine) Biopsychosocial model of the clinical consultation. Using a South African clinical postgraduate Family Medicine training programme as a case study, this project answered two central research questions: (i) How do students learn to …
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Improving rates of advanced care planning discussion and documentation in the primary care setting : a DNP quality improvement study
… 50 years and older within our designated family medicine clinic by increasing discussion and documentation rates. Methods: The project was implemented in a family medicine clinic in an urban area over a 3 month time period. An ACP focused workflow was implemented defining specific roles …
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A pragmalinguistic analysis of missed opportunities for building rapport in interpreted medical interviews with Spanish-speaking patients.
… medical consultations previously recorded at a family medicine clinic in Central Texas. The analysis quantified which rapport-building attempts most frequently occurred but were not interpreted and examined specific and general effects of noninterpretation, as well as potential consequences for …
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Making Sense of Medical Education: An Examination of Contraception Counselling, Unplanned Pregnancy Counselling, and Abortion Services Curricula in Ontario Medical Schools
… obstetrics and gynecology clerkship, and family medicine clerkship) and post-graduate (obstetrics and gynecology and family medicine) programs; and 2) explore factors influencing the existence and form of these curricula from the perspective of program directors. Design: An exploratory …
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Improving access to surgery in low- and middle-income countries through improved emergency and essential surgical care provision at district hospitals
… from community service medical officers to family medicine specialists. This study aims to describe the volume and breadth of emergency and essential surgical services provided at Madwaleni Hospital in order to inform and enable future improvements in the surgical system. Methods: A …
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An exploration of community partners' experiences of a 4th year medical students' community-based research and health promotion course
… Health Care (PHC), Public Health (PH) and Family Medicine (FM) in the Health Sciences Faculty at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have placed medical students in communities for eight-week rotations. During this time they undertake a community-based epidemiology project, followed by a …
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BARRIERS TO ABORTION CARE ACCESS IN NORTH PHILADELPHIA: A CALL FOR BOTTOM UP CHANGE
… A 13-question, anonymous survey was sent to the Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology departments at TUHS to measure the frequency in which patients request abortion care services at TUHS, perceived patient barriers to abortion care, and perceived attitudes surrounding abortion care. The …
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A qualitative study of patients' perceptions, interpretations and experiences of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS)
… needs. It became obvious that application of Family Medicine principles to the needs of the patients could improve the quality of care given to them. Also, attention to family functions can help detect patients whose well-being can be improved.
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Reduce the Rooming Time
… to ten minutes. In the Department of Adult and Family Medicine, there are about eighty physicians who are supported by eighty medical assistants. The appointment length is twenty minutes. The rooming procedures take about thirteen minutes to complete which leaves only seven minutes for …
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Dietary knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of individuals with diagnosed hypercholesterolemia
… diagnosed hypercholesterolemia attending the Family Medicine Clinic at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS). In terms of univariate analysis good compliers with cholesterol lowering guidelines were identified as having a higher level of education and less likely to have …
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Increasing point of care testing for glycated hemoglobin A1c levels in a family health clinic
… outcomes of utilizing POCT for HbA1c in the family medicine clinic.
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