OBJECTIVE To evaluate a curriculum for teaching family physicians (FPs) in rural and underserviced areas about children's mental health, and to evaluate a collaborative model of teaching using child psychiatrists and FPs. METHODS A child psychiatrist and a rural FP provided training to rural FPs in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs). Trai...

A large number of false positives (FPs) generated by computer-aided detection schemes is likely to distract radiologists’ attention and decreases their interpretation efficiency. Therefore, it is desirable to reduce FPs as many as possible to increase the detection specificity while maintaining the high detection sensitivity. In this paper, several features are extracted from the projected imag...

PURPOSE Continuous and rapid eye movement causes significant intraframe distortion in adaptive optics high resolution retinal imaging. To minimize this artifact, we developed a high speed adaptive optics line scan confocal retinal imaging system. METHODS A high speed line camera was employed to acquire retinal image and custom adaptive optics was developed to compensate the wave aberration of...

INTRODUCTION One of the key strategies for marketing new drugs to physicians is personal selling by pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs). GOAL The aim of this study was to determine which features of PSR's are most valued by Slovenian family physicians (FPs). METHODS We performed a cross-sectional observational postal survey in FPs. We sent the invitation for cooperation in the study...

BACKGROUND Emotion dysregulation has been implicated in the negative outcomes following trauma exposure. A proposed biomarker of emotion dysregulation, respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), has demonstrated associations with trauma-related phenomena, such as the fear-potentiated startle (FPS) response. The current study aimed to examine the prospective association between emotion dysregulation an...

Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have gained enormous popularity amongst the game communities, industries and academic researches. In particular, first person shooter (FPS) and massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) genres are most famed. FPS traffic is very delay sensitive like voice and its interactivity is similar to the multimedia. However, MMORPG traffic is less ...

BACKGROUND Family physicians (FPs) specialize in the management of common problems, but we know little about their role in the care of patients with rare conditions. OBJECTIVE To describe the roles FPs play in the identification and management of patients with rare conditions in a typical practice. METHODS Office record review of 100 patients with rare conditions in the everyday, community-...

This paper presents Free Parking System (FPS), a system for assigning free curbside parking spaces to drivers in the cities. FPS has two components: a mobile app running on the drivers’ smart phones that submits parking requests and guides drivers to their parking spaces, and a server that manages the parking assignment process. Unlike existing parking systems, FPS is cost-effective as it does ...

The speed of genomic discovery has left little time for health professionals to acquire an understanding of the implications for practice. We examine the factors influencing receptivity to genomic education and adoption of the genetics-informed optimal family history (OFH) among US family physicians (FPs). We test a model based on Rogers’ theory of innovation diffusion using data from a sample ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which Nova Scotian FPs prescribe and provide emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) and to explore their knowledge of and attitudes toward ECPs. DESIGN Survey of Nova Scotian FPs using a modified Dillman method. SETTING All regions of Nova Scotia. PARTICIPANTS Family physicians registered with Dalhousie University's Division of Continuing Medical Educati...