McWhinney’s gift: academic family medicine

McWhinney's gift: academic family medicine.

360 CMAJ, March 5, 2013, 185(4) © 2013 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Dr. Ian R. McWhinney was catalyst and witness to a half century of change that saw family medicine become fully professionalized as its own academic discipline. He died on Sept. 28, 2012. Born in the United Kingdom in 1926 and trained at Cambridge and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (MB 1949), McWhinney completed mi...

Academic cooperation in family medicine: a viewpoint from Split.

UNLABELLED The problems, current status, and opportunities of national and international collaboration between the academic family medicine institutions in Southern Europe, particularly in the region of ex Yugoslavia, as perceived from the standpoint of the Department of Family Medicine in Split University School of Medicine, Split, Croatia, are presented in this brief review. A historical surv...

Family medicine defines its academic niche: the Split Initiative.

Women's satisfaction with abortion care in academic family medicine centers.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The primary study aim was to describe patient satisfaction regarding abortion experiences in urban academic family medicine centers (FMCs). METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 210 women obtaining a first trimester medication or aspiration abortion at four FMCs. The 32-item written survey consisted of multiple choice, open-ended questions and Likert scale...

Family medicine curriculum: improving the quality of academic sessions.

UNLABELLED PROBLEM ADDRESSED The Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Alberta has used academic sessions and clinical-based teaching to prepare residents for private practice. Before the new curriculum, academic sessions were large group lectures given by specialists. These sessions lacked consistent quality, structured topics, and organization. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The prog...