The multiple mini-SOAP format for student presentations of complex patients.

(Fam Med 2003;35(16):13-4.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Erika Schillinger, MD, and Samuel LeBaron, MD, PhD, of the Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine at Stanford University present an interesting approach to a common and perplexing teaching problem. 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, 5510 Greenbriar, Houston, TX 77005-2638. 713-798-6271. Fax: 713-7988472. 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.