BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In this essay-part memoir, part reflection, and part oral history-I review my early professional development, a several years' long progression after residency training, during which I grew from functioning as a technically competent primary care doctor to being a capable and compassionate family physician. As part of that development, and with my colleague John Frey, ...

INTRODUCTION Family physician is the increasing efforts to promote physician and other human resources in the health care systems. GOAL Investigate Human resources situation of the family physician program in six pilot cities in Khuzestan province in the southwest of Iran. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to examine the family physician program in 2011. In this stud...

Background: LBW is an important factor that can affect infant mortality and represents an index of economic and social development. It is expected that an increase in the density of midwives attending family physician programs will lead to a decrease in LBW in health centers. This study aimed to compare the percentage of LBW infants before and after the implementation of the family physician pr...

Background & objectives: The Integrated Health System (SIB) is the latest electronic health record system in Iran, officially began in Iran in March 2016, with the goal of integrating health information and providing health services. This study aimed to design a model for establishment of the electronic health record in family physician program of Guilan university of medical sciences. Method:...