Contentment in general practice — for now

PSA testing in general practice: can we do more now?

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 19 April 2004 180 8 379-381 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2004 www.mja.com.au Conference Report THE DEBATE OVER PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN (PSA) testing for prostate cancer has been prolonged, public, and sometimes acrimonious. Despite this, a common theme is present in most evidence-based guidelines produced to date: while population-based sc...

Reflective practice: where now?

Reflective practice was originally conceived as a radical critique of technical rationality, and was based on the premise that knowledge generated by practitioners reflecting on their own experiences is of at least equal value to knowledge derived by ac ademics from empirical research. However, experiential knowledge from reflection-on-action now finds itself at the bottom of the hierarchy of e...

. . . but now what? Some unresolved problems of training for general practice.

WILLIAM Pickles died over 20 years ago in 1969. Nevertheless it is not difficult to get a clear idea of the sort of man and doctor that Pickles was. His concern for his patients and his enthusiasm for research and learning shine through the pages of his writings, and his life has been sensitively portrayed for us by John Pemberton.I His achievements over the years were great particularly his co...

Is UK general practice education and training now fit for purpose?

Soft Systems Methodology for Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines in A General Hospital: A study protocol

Background: It is notoriously challenging to implement evidence-based care and to update and improve health care policy. Adhering to evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) serves as the driving force behind making decisions based on the best evidence and making efforts for improving the quality of patient care and outcomes. Despite requiring Iranian hospitals to implement CPGs in Ja...