ADVOCACY IN FAMILY MEDICINE: FAMILY MEDICINE ADVOCACY SUMMIT

Media advocacy for the office-based teacher of family medicine.

(Fam Med 2003;35(8):544-6.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Jamee Lucas, MD, Palmetto Health Family Practice Residency, and James Stallworth, MD, Palmetto Health Pediatric Residency in Columbia, SC, present a mnemonic to help us remember how to approach learners with specific difficulties and give them feedback. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the S...

The STFM presidential themes: leadership and advocacy in academic family medicine.

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The Shared Terrain of Narrative Medicine and Advocacy Journalism.

Reprinted with permission from Ethics Rounds 2003-04 Winter;13(4):9-11. In the still uncharted territory of “narrative medicine,” the early conceptual pioneers have planted a number of boundary stakes and flags in attempts to define the width and breadth of the new discipline, in much the way that new medical subspecialties are defined and legitimized. Thus, depending on whom you read or talk t...

Emergency medicine health advocacy: foundations for training and practice.

Emergency physicians (EPs) are uniquely positioned to act as health advocates for individual patients, emergency department (ED) patient populations and the Canadian public. However, most ED practice environments do not encourage health advocacy, and staff EPs often do not feel adequately prepared to address many health-determinant issues. The mandate to provide health advocacy training to emer...