conclusions the levels of knowledge and skill among iranian physicians on major topics of sports and exercise medicine are low to medium. gps and interns are the first line of patient management so our findings suggest adding some sports medicine related topics into curriculum of medical doctors. materials and methods a cross-sectional study was performed in 2009 to determine the knowledge rega...

BACKGROUND In 1992, the Royal College of General Practitioners instituted its fellowship in mental health education, which aimed to provide general practitioner tutors with the skills they need to help general practitioners manage mental illness in general practice. However, the emphasis of the fellowship on pedagogic education may discourage educators wishing to introduce andragogic teaching, ...

There is increasing interest in evidence based medicine and critical evaluation of medical literature as an aid to decision making and greater emphasis on using results of research in decision making is one of the recent advances in general practice. There are well recognized models for critical reading which apply more complex rules of epidemiology but this paper describes the use of the READE...

THE fact that a second edition of Dr. Keith Hodgkin's book "Towards Earlier Diagnosis" has had to be published only three years after the first edition is a striking testimony to its worth. Vocational training for general practice is one aspect of post-graduate medical education which is exercising the minds of many doctors today. This book, which consists chiefly of concise and systematic reco...

The Mater Mothers' Hospital, South Brisbane recently identified a number of difficulties with the maternity share-care program it runs with 1100 local GPs. This paper describes an integration approach developed at the Mater which has addressed these problems via the use of clinical management guidelines across the whole episode of care, the provision of a patient held record/pathway as a clinic...

Medical services which are better suited to the needs of the community are increasingly demanded, for example by national governments, and depend to a great extent on education of the new generations of doctors. Problem-based learning in general practice at the community level represents a method of providing appropriate education. This paper describes some of the experiences of undergraduate a...

BACKGROUND Detection of cancer in general practice is challenging because symptoms are diverse. Even so-called alarm symptoms have low positive predictive values of cancer. Nevertheless, appropriate referral is crucial. As 85% of cancer patients initiate their cancer diagnostic pathway in general practice, a Continuing Medical Education meeting (CME-M) in early cancer diagnosis was launched in ...