abstract：BACKGROUND:The family medicine clerkship at the University of Arizona uses three methods to evaluate students. The purpose of this study is to 1) look for possible sources of bias in each method, 2) validate the evaluation methods by correlating with other measures of academic achievement, and 3) measure the amount of ...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Campos-Outcalt D,Witzke DB,Fulginiti JV

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To judge the effectiveness of a new required third-year family practice (FP) clerkship, we designed a 20-item FP comfort assessment (FPCA) to measure students' self-reported comfort with a wide range of FP skills. This report examines the behavior and characteristics of the FPCA. METHODS:During the 1990-91 ...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Donnelly JF,Boltri JM,Weeks ME,Mengel MB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical laboratory are often provided as numerical values that are then interpreted as being positive or negative. While this approach might simplify interpretation, it also makes interpretation contingent on a standard test cutoff point. Alternatively, test results can be interpreted for a specific patient with refe...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Bergus GR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family-oriented care and sociocultural awareness are core competency objectives in behavioral science education. Nevertheless, teaching "family" and "culture" in ways that are meaningful and useful to residents can be a challenging task for family medicine educators. METHODS:We describe a block rotation tha...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Marvel MK,Grow M,Morphew P

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was conducted to validate a shortened version of the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM). This screening instrument is designed to be used in public health and primary care settings to identify patients with low reading levels. It provides reading grade estimates for patients who ...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Davis TC,Long SW,Jackson RH,Mayeaux EJ,George RB,Murphy PW,Crouch MA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Involvement in service-education linkages by family practice residencies is increasing. In the late 1980s, Swedish Hospital Family Practice Residency in Seattle sought to expand into a new site. At the same time, the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health (SKCDPH) identified the Denny Regrade area o...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Verdon ME

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To encourage pursuit of focused academic and clinical interest by family practice residents, we developed an Area of Concentration (AOC) program at a university-based residency program. The program uses resources available throughout the university and permits residents to focus on a variety of interest areas, includi...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Frank SH,Smith CK

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Many family practice residency programs use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in the process of resident advising. The purpose of this study was to validate the MBTI with an alternative personality evaluation instrument. METHODS:We evaluated 44 residents with both the MBTI and the Sixtee...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Eicke FJ,Blake G,Replogle W

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health policies often have disproportionate effects on the poor and other vulnerable groups. Standard survey techniques are often difficult to apply to these vulnerable populations, and many data bases systematically omit such individuals. The purpose of this paper is to review our experience in collecting prim...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Bindman AB,Grumbach K,Keane D,Lurie N

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family-oriented medical care is one of the basic tenets of family practice. However, little is known about the extent to which: 1) resident physicians discuss family issues during outpatient office visits and 2) attending physicians address family issues during teaching consultations. METHODS:Two hundred an...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Marvel MK,Morphew PK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known regarding the dynamics of elderly persons' participation in health promotion programs. We studied factors influencing the participation of 337 sedentary elderly persons in an exercise promotion session. All study participants were members of a health maintenance organization. METHODS:Baselin...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Elward KS,Wagner EH,Larson EB

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physicians' encounters with dying patients are often problematic. This study was designed to facilitate understanding of what happens when residents encounter dying patients. METHODS:The research involved observing and interviewing 28 family practice residents as they worked with dying patients. The primary...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Dozor RB,Addison RB

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and infant care are a continuum in the family life cycle for which the family physician is especially qualified to provide primary, comprehensive care. The purpose of this paper is to document and share the controversies, wisdom, and knowledge about caring for women and their familie...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Scherger JE,Levitt C,Acheson LS,Nesbitt TS,Johnson CA,Reilly KE,Ratcliffe S,Marquardt D,Pfenninger JL,Rodney WM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nurse practitioners and physician assistants (physician extenders) are playing an increased role in medical care. The purpose of this research was to determine the proportion of adults who have received health care from physician extenders. METHODS:This study used the subject population of the 1990 Kentucky...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Mainous AG 3rd,Bertolino JG,Harrell PL

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a survey of required first-year generalist courses offered by US medical schools during 1980, 1985, and 1990 to see if significant growth had occurred in this curricular area and to determine if the presence of these courses was associated with an increase in the percent of graduates selecting family prac...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Mengel MB,Davis AB,Barton ED

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family practice residency training in Venezuela is designed to prepare physicians to meet the health needs of the nation at a time of increasing societal concerns for the quality and cost of care. Since 1982, nine residency programs have been created throughout the country. Each two-year program is based in an ambulat...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Thompson R,Gruber F,Marcano G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four family practice resident physicians provided a school-based educational intervention designed to increase the use of bicycle helmets by elementary school children in three of six public schools and to produce more favorable parental attitudes toward bicycle helmets. The effect of the one-week intervention was ass...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Towner P,Marvel MK

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether the sex of physicians and patients affected the preventive care of middle-aged and older patients of family physicians. The charts of 61 male and 75 female patients older than 50 years, whose primary physicians were third-year family practice residents, were reviewed to determine whether te...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Levy S,Dowling P,Boult L,Monroe A,McQuade W

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A home visit rotation was developed to provide family practice residents with a more comprehensive understanding of the effect of patient life-style on health status. The rotation emphasizes geriatric, community, and rehabilitative medicine. In addition, the curriculum addresses issues related to patient compliance, a...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Neale AV,Hodgkins BJ,Demers RY

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine neonatal circumcision has long been controversial. Presented here is a cost-effectiveness analysis of the consequences of the treatment choices (circumcision versus no circumcision) using a decision tree model. For a simulated 85-year life expectancy, routine neonatal circumcision had an expected lifetime cost...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Lawler FH,Bisonni RS,Holtgrave DR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades Vitamin B12 injections have been administered to patients with no documented deficiency. A previous study identified a cohort of patients who described vitamin B12-responsive symptoms despite lack of cobalamin deficiency as measured by conventional laboratory tests. These patients have been studied further...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Lawhorne LW,Wright H,Cragen D

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Now that primary care practice-based research networks are known to be feasible, it is important to learn more about the reasons practices participate and withdraw. The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) experience presents a special opportunity to study 32 practices that withdrew from the Network since it be...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Green LA,Niebauer LJ,Miller RS,Lutz LJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Duke Social Support and Stress Scale (DUSOCS) was validated in 249 adult family practice patients using the Family Strengths, the Family Inventory of Life Events, and the Duke Health Profile (DUKE) as comparison instruments. Validity was supported in that the DUSOCS family support measure had the clinically expect...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Parkerson GR Jr,Broadhead WE,Tse CK

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the tenth report prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians on the percentage of each medical school's graduates who entered family practice residency programs. Approximately 10.7% of the 15,433 graduates of United States medical schools between July 1989 and June 1990 were first-year residents in f...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Schmittling G,Graham R,Hejduk G

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A national survey of all family practice residency directors was undertaken to assess programs' current efforts in the area of violence education. The survey also investigated directors' views about particular types of violence and beliefs about how involved family practice residency programs should be in educating ph...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Hendricks-Matthews MK

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the records of patients attending a rural family practice clinic indicated that 13% had received "cold shots" (lincomycin with or without chlorpheniramine). The providers who assumed management of the clinic when the previous physician retired judged these injections inappropriate, but patients believed th...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Lawhorne LW

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 25,000 recorded visits between primary care physicians and adults aged 25 and older in the 1985 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey were analyzed to study the relationship between patient age and selected process measures of the physician-patient encounter. Multiple presenting complaints and visit di...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Sloane PD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new family practice residency curriculum in the format of the special requirements for residency training is proposed. This new curriculum consolidates the original principles of family practice with current developments in medical practice and changes in society. The emphasis is on increased flexibility, a competen...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Merenstein JH,Schulte JJ

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is intended to inform STFM and NAPCRG members of current developments regarding this organizational process and the future of each organization. These preliminary discussions have provided a basis for determining how family medicine can be more effective as an academic discipline. The board of directors a...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： David AK

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The improvement of clinical teaching skills has consistently been an important focus of faculty development in family medicine. Successful faculty development programs depend on an understanding of the components of clinical teaching and a profile of the strengths and weaknesses of each faculty member with respect to ...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Lewis BS,Pace WD

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that maternity care by family physicians can produce statistically similar outcomes to obstetric management in some communities. Obstetrical and perinatal literature suggest that those specialties may be able to decrease rural neonatal mortality. However, family practice literature h...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Marquardt DN

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the attitudes of women patients about the presence and role of a chaperone during pelvic exams and factors associated with these perceptions. A questionnaire was mailed to a systematic sample of all adult women patients of an academic-affiliated family practice (n = 939) in a rural southeastern U...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Patton DD,Bodtke S,Horner RD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family physicians frequently see children and parents when they are adjusting to marital separation. This study examined how well child adjustment at school could be determined from an assessment of interspousal relations, maternal functioning, and child perception variables. Teachers evaluated adaptive functioning, s...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Oppenheimer K,Prinz RJ,Bella BS

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through several recent and widely publicized cases, misconduct in science has caught the public's attention and reached the agenda of Congress. After a brief historical overview, this article presents a number of cases from family medicine raising issues of duplicate publication, plagiarism, inappropriate authorship, ...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Berg AO

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigators conducted a survey of Balint group activities among family practice residencies in the United States. The survey was designed to discover how many programs have Balint groups as well as the groups' characteristics, leadership, and structure. Of the 381 family practice residencies surveyed, 93% respon...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Brock CD,Stock RD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This pilot study was undertaken to better understand the families of patients with somatization disorder. Two complementary methods were used to study six patients with somatization disorder and six control patients. The first method was a semistructured clinical family interview which was videotaped and independently...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： deGruy FV,Dickinson P,Dickinson L,Mullins HC,Baker W,Blackmon D

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for research, aptitude x treatment interactions (ATI), is presented. This model has some specific utility for family medicine research. ATI can test the interaction between individual differences (aptitudes) and experimental interventions (treatments). Thus, in an applied setting one might choose an interventi...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Holloway RL,Rogers JC

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discipline of family medicine covers a broad area of interests which often leads to duplication of information and lack of awareness of useful information resources. In an era of limited financial and time resources, it is in the best interest of large departments to consolidate departmental and scholarly informat...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Crandall E,Curtis P,Resnick J,Scharlock N

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research themes of interest to both clinical and social sciences have been proliferating in recent years. While the personal experiences of individuals who conduct interdisciplinary research probably vary widely, several general models of research and its conduct seem to be quite common. This is illustrated using the ...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Mayer JD

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study continues a series of reports from the American Academy of Family Physicians on the percentage of each medical school's graduates who enter family practice residency programs. Approximately 10.7% of the 15,947 graduates of United States medical schools between July 1987 and June 1988 were first-year residen...

journal_title：Family medicine

authors： Schmittling G,Graham R

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00