Teaching preventive medicine in an office-based visit.

(Fam Med 2006;38(10):693-5.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Krupa Shah, MD, MPH, and Tricia Elliott, MD, of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine discuss how to teach learners to conduct a prevention visit. I thank Paul Paulman, MD, of the University of Nebraska for being the guest editor of this month’s column. 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 williamh@bcm. tmc.edu. William Huang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3701 Kirby, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77098-3915. 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.