These are the duties of a physician: First... to heal his mind and to give help to himself before giving it to anyone else. — Epitaph of an Athenian physician, 2 AD S uicide, alcohol abuse, drug abuse and marital discord can be the unfortunate outcomes of workplace distress. The medical profession is not immune. Researchers have long recognized that physicians may have even higher risks for the...

This activity offers CE credits for: 1. Physicians (CME) 2. Other ACTIVITY GOAL To understand the psychiatric and psychosomatic aspects of chronic pain. LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to: • Discuss the factors that lead to pain in the absence of a medical diagnosis • Assess the underlying psychiatric and psychosomatic factors that lead to pain • ...

OBJECTIVE Academic emergency physicians (EPs) often feel that the demands of clinical productivity, income generation, and patient satisfaction conflict with educational objectives. The objective of this study was to explore whether the quality of faculty bedside teaching of residents correlated with high clinical productivity, measured by relative value units (RVUs). We also explored the strat...

Embedding interprofessional education (IPE) into academic programs presents structural, curricular and human factor challenges. Nurses and physicians comprise the dominant dyad in healthcare, and therefore nursing and medical faculty are key in guiding future IPE approaches. However, faculty experiences with IPE are rarely reported. This paper presents perceptions of medical and nursing faculty...

The Colleges and Faculties of Occupational and Environmental Medicine largely developed to meet the need of postgraduate training in the discipline, and this function remains central to their role in 2010. To this end, a number of these organizations have examined the training curriculum and pathways in their countries and within the last few years have developed new curricula. The Australasian...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study investigated factors related to declining interest in family medicine by US medical school graduates. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to all physicians who graduated from 24 medical schools in 1997-1999, and who entered a family medicine residency, and a randomly selected equal number of graduates from the same years who entered other primary care special...

BACKGROUND Few medical teachers have received formal teaching education. Along with individual and organizational barriers to participation in teacher training programs, increasing numbers and altered distribution of physicians away from major teaching centers have increased the difficulty of attendance. Furthermore, it is not known if traditional faculty development formats are the optimal lea...

BACKGROUND Physicians frequently report negative attitudes about obesity which is thought to affect patient care. However, little is known about how attitudes toward treating obese patients are formed. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of physicians in order to better characterize their attitudes and explore the relationships among attitudes, perceived competency in obesity care, including ...

BACKGROUND Practicing physicians rarely apply evidence-based medicine (EBM). Unlike their more-experienced counterparts, current residents probably participated in EBM curricula during medical school. The current study was designed to determine the extent to which they or their faculty spend time searching for evidence-based answers. This information will help guide the content and format of EB...

We describe how collaboration with outpatient community health centers and other disciplines resulted in the creation of a novel interdisciplinary inpatient maternal child health system that focuses on safety and collaboration. Our maternal child health faculty team includes a mix of fellowship- and non-fellowship-trained, inpatient- and outpatient-based family physicians. Our team provides a s...