Orienting family medicine residents and medical students to office practice.

(Fam Med 2005;37(7):461-3.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Sweety Jain, MD, of the Sacred Heart Hospital Family Practice Residency in Allentown, Pa, discusses important items that should be discussed with residents and students when orienting them to office practice. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourage all predoctoral directors to make copies of this feature and distribute it to their preceptors (with the appropriate Family Medicine citation). Send your submissions to [email protected]. William Huang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3701 Kirby, Suite 600, Houston, TX 770983915. 713-798-6271. Fax: 713-798-7789. Submissions should be no longer than 3–4 double-spaced pages. References can be used but are not required. Count each table or figure as one page of text.