For the 30 years family practice has formally been accepted as a primary specialty, it has had a defined scope of practice that includes all conditions and both sexes. Pregnancy is among the most common conditions and is often the first involving young families with the health care system in a meaningful way. The medical literature and government reports have documented the importance of family...

INTRODUCTION This study examined the work environment of rural family physicians in New Brunswick, a province in eastern Canada. The purpose of the research was to explore the job satisfaction of rural family physicians based on gender, age, years in practice, and language and location of practice. METHODS We used a qualitative, collective case study approach (24 cases of two individuals each...

. 12.00 background: most countries use educated nurses called “nurse practitioners” (nps) besides the family physicians for diagnosis, treatment, and specifically health education of the family. the main goal of this study was to redefine the role of nps for better use of their capabilities in the so-called “family physician reform” in iran. materials and methods: this is a qualitative and comp...

The term “medical home” has been in use since at least 1967, when the American Academy of Pediatrics published Standards of Child Health Care. It defined medical home care as “accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, and compassionate.” The Future of Family Medicine report, published in 2004, is generally credited with initiating the current national conversations ar...

BACKGROUND Healthcare in China has significantly improved, meanwhile many  socio-economic risk factors and health conditions factors affect accessibility and utilization of health services in rural areas. Inequity of health service in China needs to  be estimated and reduced. Andersen behavioral model is useful to assess the association of health service utilization with predisposing, enabling,...

Based on data from the 2004 National Physician Survey, physicians whose primary payment method was fee-for-service saw more patients per week than physicians remunerated by other methods, including salary or blended payments. This result did not change when examined according to specialty or specialty grouping (Table 1), physician age (Table 2) Family physicians versus specialists, type of prac...

We validated the accuracy of case definitions for hypertension derived from administrative data across time periods (year 2001 versus 2004) and geographic regions using physician charts. Physician charts were randomly selected in rural and urban areas from Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, during years 2001 and 2004. Physician charts were linked with administrative data through unique perso...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physician workforce projections fuel interest in addressing the shortage of family physicians. Copious research has investigated personality as a variable influencing specialty intention. Medical school rural longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs) nurture interest in family medicine. This study examined whether rural LIC students who intended to and eventually match...