UNLABELLED The concept of evidence based medicine (EBM) as the integration of clinical expertise, patient values and the best evidence was introduced by David Sackett in the 1980s. Scientific literature in medicine is often marked by expansion, acummulation and quick expiration. Reading all important articles to keep in touch with relevant information is impossible. Finding the best evidence th...

The goal of the International Family Medicine Education column is to bring our readers information about developments in family medicine education in countries outside the United States. We will abstract literature from journals published throughout the world that address issues relevant to medical student education and graduate training in family and general practice. The issues may relate to ...

Over the past year, Residents’ Pages have presented several articles devoted to career choice. As family medicine (FM) residents, we often interact with medical students. Many of us are likely to become clinical teachers in the near future. Most of us are concerned with the recent Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) statistics and impending exacerbation of family physician shortages in C...

In this issue of Canadian Family Physician (CFP) we celebrate the growth and diversity of family medicine research in Canada. In the past 2 decades, Canada’s family medicine research enterprise has grown remarkably. Many academic family medicine departments across the country have developed strong core groups of funded family-physician and allied-health researchers with stable infrastructure an...

Family medicine is part of the process by which medicine adjusts itself to the changing needs of society. Family physicians have in common the fact that they obtain fulfillment from personal relations more than from the technical aspects of medicine. Their commitment is to a group of people more than to a body of knowledge. Their experience gives them a distinctive perspective of illness that i...

BACKGROUND The degree to which the family medicine literature articulates unique family practice approaches and perspectives that are distinct from other primary care specialties has not been well studied. To determine how often a family practice perspective is included in clinical articles in the family medicine literature, we performed a family medicine journal review. METHODS We reviewed 1...