Family medicine: Global health in practice

The Formation of a Self-Funded Global Health Fellowship within a Department of Family Medicine

Introduction: The need for global health training for early-career family medicine physicians is greater than the supply. This paper details the formation of a one-year, self-funded global health fellowship for early-career family medicine physicians. Methods: In August of 2012, the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine established a self...

Mental Health Problems in Family Medicine/General Practice

Copyright © 2012 Jan De Lepeleire et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Mental health disorders represent a large proportion of the world's disease burden, mostly due to depression and anxiety disorders, alcohol a...

Global health curriculum in family medicine: resident perspective.

The Section of Residents’ (SOR) Council of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has representation from each training program across the nation; collectively, we represent all family medicine residents in Canada. Our mandate is to improve the quality of the family medicine residency experience and to have a positive effect on the delivery of health care to Canadians.1 As a section ...

Psychological Medicine in Family Practice

Family medicine practice in rural any-country.