Background and Objectives: Because patients often present to their family physicians with
undifferentiated medical problems, uncertainty is common. Family medicine residents must …

Methods: We used two surveys to capture data. One was for program directors, which assessed
the level of resident involvement in curricular and practice transformation. The second …

Originally from Sweden, Hans Duvefelt, MD, trained at Central Maine Medical Center 40
years ago and has practiced in rural Maine ever since. In 2008, he began writing a reflective …

Innovation is essential to the growth of family medicine as a specialty and to maintaining
excellence in training and patient care in a health care environment under constant change. 1, …

The Covenant of Water expansively tells the story of a multigenerational family in Parambil,
in Southeastern India. The saga begins with the marriage of a 12-year-old girl to a much …

There is a need for an improved awareness about Familial Hypercholesterolemia to promote
prompt treatment and long-term management amongst a population disproportionately …

We thank Dr Ventres and Mr Rule for their thoughtful review and stimulating ideas for
consideration regarding our study. 1 They will be of great value to us as we design future study for …

… Picker Institute, and the Commonwealth Fund and Beth Israel invested in that idea. If more
foundations adopt this as an exit strategy from long and expensive grant programs, the Picker …

… My daughter, Beth, was the only thing that gushed out of me from … Instead it ruptured out of
Beth in short, fevered spurts of … Sometimes the churning volcano threatened to swallow Beth …

The thymus represents the major site of the production and generation of T cells expressing
αβ-type T-cell antigen receptors 1 . Age-related involution 2 may affect the ability of the …