Background: Many smartphone applications (apps) for weight loss are available, but little is
known about their effectiveness. Objective: To evaluate the effect of introducing primary care …

The 15-minute visit does not allow the physician sufficient time to provide the variety of services
expected of primary care. A teamlet (little team) model of care is proposed to extend the …

… Brian Yoshio Laing is a fourth-year medical student at University of California, San Francisco.
E-mail: yoshi.laing@ucsf.edu. Lisa Ward, MD, MScPh, MS, is Assistant Clinical Professor …

Primary care practices, for years changing at a snail’s pace, have undergone a revolution in
a few short weeks. Up to now, primary care has been driven by the face-to-face medical visit, …

H ow do we characterize the current era in US health care? Perhaps “a time of increasing
costs and decreasing health insurance”. Equally accurate would be “the age of specialism”. …

Background: Unit-based teams (UBTs), initially developed by Kaiser Permanente and
affiliated unions, are natural work groups of clinicians, managers, and frontline staff who work …

Purpose: Despite increasing data demonstrating the positive impact primary care has on
quality of care and costs, our specialty faces uncertainty. Its popularity among medical students …

The invalidity of Brazil’s notion of a ‘racial democracy’is a commonly discussed them of
contemporary race studies in the context of this racially fluid and complex country. Sociologist …

This dissertation explores how anti-racist education might be improved, so that it more effectively
teaches Multiracial students about racism. A brief history of anti-racist education and a …