Family Medicine, Community, and Race: A Minneapolis Practice Reflects

Clinical practice and community medicine.

The idea for a study of the attitudes of trainees and recently appointed specialists in community medicine arose out of discussions I had with successive classes of trainees on the MFCM course run by the Southern Universities Consortium. The object was to determine whether trainees considered it desirable that specialists should have the option of continuing to practise clinical medicine on a p...

Supporting and promoting osteopathic medicine through community-based family practice preceptorships: a survey-based study.

CONTEXT Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM) has long maintained a preceptorship program involving community-based osteopathic physicians who voluntarily provide osteopathic medical students with early clinical experiences in family practice. OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors that influence osteopathic physicians to participate in the MSUCOM Family Medicine Pr...

Psychological Medicine in Family Practice

Family medicine practice performance and knowledge management.

BACKGROUND Knowledge management (KM) is the process by which people in organizations find, share, and develop knowledge for action. KM affects performance by influencing work relationships to enhance learning and decision making. PURPOSE To identify how family medicine practices exhibit KM. METHODOLOGY A model and a template of KM concepts were derived from a comprehensive organizational li...

Appraisal of family and community medicine.