This paper highlights the content of a course designed to prepare students for family practice, with emphasis on mothers as primary caregivers. A model is presented of relatively healthy family interactions characterized by co-parenting and equitable division of labor in the home. The strengths perspective is applied to family practice with mother-headed families where noncustodial fathers shar...

BACKGROUND More than 11 million people in the United States have moderate or severe migraine resulting in much suffering and millions of lost work days annually. Staying abreast of current advances in headache management is important for family physicians, who care for most headache patients. METHODS MEDLINE files were searched from 1982 to the present using the key words "headache," "migrain...

OBJECTIVE To describe the level of patient satisfaction with family practice in Slovenia. DESIGN An internationally developed instrument for patients' evaluations of general practice care was used in a postal survey. SETTING A representative sample of 36 family practices in Slovenia. STUDY PARTICIPANTS Sixty consecutive patients in every practice were approached and offered a self-adminis...

A new course at the Tavistock Clinic offers general practitioners (GPs) and primary care nurses a training based on family therapy principles but directed at developing skills and conceptualization across the whole range of general practice work. The course may point to a new way forward for postgraduate training in general practice, creating links with the social sciences and giving doctors an...

BACKGROUND Regular use of evidence-based medicine (EBM) among general practitioners (GP) is insufficient. OBJECTIVE To analyse whether knowledge and attitudes about EBM can be improved among mentors in general practice by involving sixth-year medical students as academic detailers. METHODS An interventional non-randomized before-and-after study included 98 GPs (49 in the intervention group ...

Family physicians with full practices and busy schedules struggle to help youth who present with pressing health issues and complicated lives. Our own offspring report difficulty finding primary care as they become independent. Our experience helping youth and young adults negotiate complex resource-constrained systems of care has posed challenges and contradicts the belief that youth do not ne...

The need for a cost-effective decision-making process is increasingly seen as a challenge within modern family practice. The role of family practice research is well recognized in countries with readily available resources and capacity. However, the situation is different in a number of countries with limited financial resources and current low research capacity. This article reports on an empi...

Financial and operational benchmarking data for family practice residency programs within the University of Washington Network were established for the year 2000. Data were systematically collected by standardized questionnaire, evaluated for quality and verified, and then analyzed. Revenues, expenses, faculty structures, productivity, and family practice center staffing models are reported, us...