E lectronic patient portals have received increasing interest with Meaningful Use criteria and the move toward patientcentered medical homes.1-4 Portals typically allow patients and physicians to send electronic messages to one another in a secure environment. Other functions might include renewing prescriptions, making appointments, and viewing portions of one’s own medical record. Despite pot...

CONTEXT Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM) has long maintained a preceptorship program involving community-based osteopathic physicians who voluntarily provide osteopathic medical students with early clinical experiences in family practice. OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors that influence osteopathic physicians to participate in the MSUCOM Family Medicine Pr...

BACKGROUND The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians of Canada mandate that faculty members demonstrate they are evaluating residents on all CanMEDS (Canadian Medical Education Directions for Specialists) roles as part of the accreditation process. Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Ottawa initiated a 5-year project to develop a...

Educated in England, at the University of Durham Medical School and graduated in 1965. Obtained membership of Royal College of Physicians in 1968 and elected Fellow in 1993. Immigrated to Canada in 1976 and became a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Canada in1979. He is a full professor within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa and has been teaching at the University of Ottawa...

6 © Royal College of Physicians 2017. All rights reserved. Author: A consultant forensic physician and specialist in forensic and legal medicine, honorary consultant in emergency medicine, St George’s Hospital, London, UK; honorary clinical senior lecturer, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London, London, UK; president, Faculty of Forensic and L...

Background: Behavioral, social, psychological and biological factors influence health and disease; and, to achieve professional competency, physicians should be knowledgeable about their society and its inhabitants’ behavior. This knowledge will help physicians to become competent in communication, professional behavior, self-awareness, ethical reasoning, and understanding cultural and ...

We evaluated the Oral Physician Program, a dental residency sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Cambridge Health Alliance that offers an innovative model for training dentists to provide limited primary care. The didactic and clinical experiences increased residents' medical knowledge and interviewing skills, and faculty assessments supported their ro...

BOOKS. Source. Vols. College of Physicians, Philadelphia ..... IooO Library of Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Balt., IooO New York Acade,my of Medicine ... 12 Associated Physicians of Long Island...2........ . 12 Cook County Hospital.............. ........... 7 American Pediatric Society..................... 30 Medical Society, State of Tennessee ... 50 Dr. George M. Gould . ................ ...

PURPOSE A diverse medical school faculty is critical to preparing physicians to provide quality care to an increasingly diverse nation. The authors sought to compare experiences of underrepresented in medicine minority (URMM) faculty with those of non-URMM faculty in a nationally representative sample of medical schools. METHOD In 2007-2009, the authors surveyed a stratified random sample of ...