Background and Objectives: Leading medical organizations including the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) American Association of Colleges (AAMC) espouse value a diverse physician workforce, disability, yet there is dearth research about this population in graduate education (GME). More information needed on prevalence disability resident population, plans to recruit r...

S imulated office orals (SOOs) are the oral component of the College of Family Physicians of Canada’s (CFPC) Certification Examination in Family Medicine. Each SOO consists of a 15-minute interview between a “patient” (actor) and “physician” (resident or non–board-certified physician); emphasis is on evaluation of candidates’ use of patient-centred and communication skills. In their efforts to ...

BACKGROUND Rural areas of the United States are perennially medically underserved, and the state of Illinois is no exception. A recent survey showed that 75 of Illinois' 84 rural counties are primary care physician shortage areas. In response to this chronic physician shortage, the Illinois Rural Medical Education (RMED) Program was developed by the University of Illinois College of Medicine at...

BACKGROUND The Family Physician Plan has recently been implemented in three provinces of Iran on a pilot basis and is going to be implemented throughout Iran in the future. Through a qualitative design, this study aims to determine probable implementation challenges of Family Physician Plan in Kerman. METHODS This study was conducted in Kerman in 2013. Data were collected through interviews w...

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, ...

a bstra ct background: the family caregivers of the people with cancer such as breast cancer experience a decrease in their quality of life and an increase of their caring burden. in most of the cases, the researchers consider the quality of life and physical and psychological problems in patients with cancer and pay less attention to the family caregivers. to reduce the caring burden imposed t...

introduction. in order to educate any subject, needs and lack of knowledge must be recognized. family planning is an essential subject for instructing to all university students, therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine educational needs of medical student about emergency contraception ( ec ). methods. this descriptive study was performed on 102 female nursing midwifery, health, and...

background & aim: women experience various changes in their transition into motherhood and feel stressed while facing new challenges in this period. high levels of stress may prevent mothers from realizing their maternal role. in this study, we aimed to explore the effects of training on the stress of primiparous mothers. methods:in this quasi-experimental intervention, 100 pregnant women were ...