Inpatient Care Is an Important Part of Family Medicine

Care of patients with disabilities: an important and often ignored aspect of family medicine teaching.

(Fam Med 2006;38(1):13-5.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Sweety Jain, MD, of the Sacred Heart Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Allentown, Pa, discusses how office-based teachers can teach learners to interact with and provide compassionate care to patients with disabilities. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www. stfm.org. ...

Why pregnancy care should be an essential part of family medicine training.

Some family medicine educators are arguing to eliminate pregnancy care as a required component of family medicine training since the majority of family physicians no longer perform deliveries, and many programs are having increasing difficulties in meeting this training requirement. The primary benefit of pregnancy care training is not to produce family physicians who all perform deliveries but...

Symptom management: an important part of cancer care.

Physicians can do a better job of palliating symptoms and improving the quality of life of cancer patients if they understand the principles of symptom management. We review the general principles of symptom management for fatigue, anorexia, constipation, dyspnea, nausea, and vomiting.

Family medicine hospital care.

The Inpatient Children: Partnership Care and Family-centered Care

A comprehensive concept of health is considered today, inseparable from the family, even more when it is associated with the child for whom the family is clearly a reference. The child is not considered an independent element. By their human condition and also by their specific characteristics, the child is vulnerable and so is the family's responsibility promoting their development. The family...