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Communicating Effectively with the Millennial Generation Medical Student (Suzanne Minor MD)
Communicating effectively with medical students and residents is vital to successful learning. Faculty and staff must connect in several ways with those they teach - in person, on the phone, via email, and possibly even by text message. Millennial Generation students tend to have decreased traditional academic literacy, thus are less able to comprehend traditional print media, but are adept with text messaging and social media. Syllabi need concrete expectations, summative details, deadlines, and consequences. Students need to understand when there is flexibility, when they may have input, and when teamwork is appropriate....
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - January 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
FDA Approves Drug for Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Featured in Journal Watch: Early Introduction of Complementary Foods Might Prevent Allergic Disease
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Treatment Mode Has Little Effect on Long-Term Function in Prostate Cancer
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Myths About Obesity
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
30 Days to Better Sleep: See a Sleep Doctor
At the conclusion of 30 days spent in an effort to sleep better, you may find yourself continuing to struggle. Through no fault of your own, restorative rest may still elude you. You may still struggle to sleep at night or wake feeling unrefreshed. What should you do now to improve your sleep? When should you see a sleep doctor?
There are many things that you can do to improve your sleep. As observed over the past month, you can sleep better by keeping a regular sleep schedule. You can improve your sleep environment by removing electronics, pets, and even the alarm clock. You can meet your sleep needs, pay off your sleep ...
Source: About Sleep Disorders - January 30, 2013 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: news
RUC Targeted at Senate Hearing on Primary Care
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The nation's primary care physician shortage might be eased by requiring more transparency from the group that helps set Medicare pay rates, speakers at a Senate hearing said Tuesday.
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 29, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Chocolate? Tomatoes? Grapeseed Oil? Here’s To Your Cardiovascular Health
Source: Consultant Live - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Lamb calls for out-of-hours primary care reform
Health minister Norman Lamb has said new arrangements for out-of-hours primary care could be needed to help cut rising demand for emergency services.
Source: HSJ - January 29, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Researcher Pinpoints Prescription For Successful Primary Care Networks
A newly-released study on early adoptees of the Primary Care Network initiative proposes that their success lies with three key elements: strong leadership, a redefined, inclusive workspace and allowance for creative discord...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news
Patients Often Dissatisfied When Doctors Utilize Digital Diagnostic Tools
Health care practitioners now can access patients' data using electronic medical records, which often include information systems that assess individuals' medical histories and clinical research to facilitate doctors' diagnoses. A University of Missouri researcher says the increased use of computerized clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) leads to greater patient dissatisfaction and could increase noncompliance with preventative care and treatment recommendations...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news
American Academy of Family Physicians Names New Director of Organizational and Business Performance
LEAWOOD, Kan. — The American Academy of Family Physicians has named Lee Stuart director of Organizational and Business Performance.
In this position, Stuart will lead the implementation of new processes and structure, with a focus on improving the AAFP's overall business performance, providing centralized organizational oversight for the product strategist enterprise and assisting the leadership team by identifying opportunities for process improvement in key organizational and cultural issues.
Source: AAFP News Releases and Statements - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
OSLER: A Five Step Integrated Paradigm Of Best Practices In Clinical Teaching (Steven Lin MD)
Presented as a poster at STFM's 39th Annual Conference on Medical Student Education on January 24-27, 2013 in San Antonio, Texas.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Influence Of Family Medicine Residents On Medical Student Interest In Primary Care: A Statewide Study (Steven Lin MD)
Presented as a poster at STFM's 39th Annual Conference on Medical Student Education on January 24-27, 2013 in San Antonio, Texas.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
HRSA Student-Run Clinic Webcast (Christopher Forest PA-C)
HRSA webcast this event about Interprofessional Student Run Clinics on December 4, 2012. The focus was interviewing student leaders from three major medical schools: Keck School of Medicine of USC, Harvard University, and the University of Minnesota. This should inspire both students and leaders to be more involved.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Intense Lobbying Over 'Biosimilar' Drugs at State Level
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Certain Antidepressants Linked to QT Prolongation
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
2013 Pediatric Immunization Schedule Released
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Featured in Journal Watch: For HIV-Infected Patients, Smoking Deadlier Than HIV
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
A physician-focused intervention to reduce potentially inappropriate medication prescribing in older people
The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a physician-focused, multi-factorial, quality-improvement intervention on PIM prescribing in older patients in primary care.
Methods: This 3-year, multi-phase, prospective, proof-of-concept project introduced in 2007 was aimed at engaging all 303 general practitioners (GPs) in the Local Health Authority (LHA) of Parma, Italy, to positively influence the quality of prescribing to the entire older outpatient population (those aged at least 65 years) served by these physicians. The intervention focused on increasing GPs' awareness of prescribing for older people ...
Source: NeLM - Care of Older People - January 29, 2013 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news
CQC inspections
What should GP practices expect after registration? Related items from OnMedicaGPs demand total rethink on CQCCQC registrationQuality of GP services could be looked at by CQCRegistration of GPs with the CQC is on track for 1 AprilMPs query CQC’s primary responsibility for patient safety
Source: OnMedica Views - January 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
The emergency department: middle-man for pediatric referrals
Specialists are more willing to see publicly insured pediatric patients if they are referred from an emergency department rather than directly from a primary care physician, according to research findings from the USA.
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - January 28, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
CDC Merges Child, Teen Immunization Schedules for 2013
Perhaps one of the more immediately noticeable changes to the 2013 immunization schedules is that the CDC has pared down the total number of schedules released by combining the previously separate child and adolescent schedules into a single 0- to 18-year schedule. Overall, the new childhood and adult schedules contain more than a dozen changes, but they should be a bit easier to follow than before, said Jamie Loehr, M.D., of Ithaca, N.Y., the AAFP's liaison to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Source: AAFP Health of the Public - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
ACIP Issues 2013 Adult Immunization Schedule and Guidelines ACIP Issues 2013 Adult Immunization Schedule and Guidelines
The Advisory Committee on Immunization 2013 adult immunization schedule includes recommendations to increase vaccination rates and changes to Tdap, pneumococcal, and influenza vaccine guidelines. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Alert Source Type: news
Hospital patient loads often at unsafe levels, physician survey says
In the United States, more than one-quarter of hospital-based general practitioners who take over for patients’ primary care doctors to manage inpatient care say their average patient load exceeds safe levels multiple times per month, according to a new study. Moreover, the study found that one in five of these physicians, known as hospitalists, reports that their workload puts patients at risk for serious complications, or even death.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 28, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Nonblinded Assessments May Bias Clinical Trial OutcomesNonblinded Assessments May Bias Clinical Trial Outcomes
A lack of blinding can result in observer bias in randomized controlled trials with subjective outcomes. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Sexual Orientation Victimization Subject of New CDC Report Sexual Orientation Victimization Subject of New CDC Report
A new report published by the CDC focuses on the prevalence of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and stalking victimization by sexual orientation. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Maddy Pratt-Hooson: Grandmother who saw GP twice a week for 6 MONTHS dies of cancer after being told not to worry
Maddy Pratt-Hooson, 66, from Newhaven in East Sussex, went to her local GP surgery twice a week for six months complaining of severe abdominal pains.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Myocardial Infarction Risk in Women Reduced With Intake of Berries
Blueberries and strawberries contain high concentrations of anthocyanins, a flavonoid shown to help lower blood pressure and improve endothelial function.
Source: Consultant Live - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Drug Combo Ups Survival in Pancreatic Ca
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer lived significantly longer when they received a two-drug combination instead of standard monotherapy, results of a large international study showed.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Grandmother
Maddy Pratt-Hooson, 66, from Newhaven in East Sussex, went to her local GP surgery twice a week for six months complaining of severe abdominal pains.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Capecitabine Has Edge in CRT for Pancreatic Ca
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- When paired with chemoradiotherapy, capecitabine offered better survival and toxicity outcomes than gemcitabine in locally advanced pancreatic cancer, researchers reported here.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Hospital Patient Loads often at Unsafe Levels, Physician Survey Says - 1/28/13
Nationwide, more than one-quarter of hospital-based general practitioners who take over for patients' primary care doctors to manage inpatient care say their average patient load exceeds safe levels multiple times per month, according to a new Johns Hopkins study.
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine News - January 28, 2013 Category: Research Source Type: news
Condylomata Acuminata (Severe External Genital Warts)
Extensive condylomata acuminata are beyond the capacity of all topical therapies. The area was initially treated by carbon dioxide laser ablation, and residual small foci of infection were subsequently treated with topical 5% imiquimod cream.
Source: Consultant Live - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
FDA Approves Botox for Overactive Bladder
Cystoscopic injection of Botox causes the bladder musculature to relax increasing the organ's storage capacity, and reducing episodes of urinary incontinence.
Source: Consultant Live - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Featured in Journal Watch: Mild Cognitive Impairment Is Common with Chronic AF
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Editor's Note: Physician Assistants Can Prescribe Schedule II Drugs in Some States
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Tamiflu's Usefulness Remains Under Question
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
2013 Adult Immunization Schedule Released
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Dual Blockade of Renin-Angiotensin System May Increase Complications
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Pediatrics Type 2 Diabetes Guidelines Published
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Statins May Lower Death Risk in Liver Ca (CME/CE)
SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Statin use seemed to reduce the risk of mortality in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, researchers reported here.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Featured in Journal Watch: Treating Unexplained Chest Pain with Esomeprazole?
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
How Do You Pronounce That Drug?
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Tolvaptan May Increase Liver Injury Risk
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Limits on Drugs Containing Hydrocodone
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
FDA Approves First OTC Treatment for Overactive Bladder in Women
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Optional Delayed Surgery for Torn ACL Equivalent to Immediate Reconstruction
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
Three New Type 2 Diabetes Drugs Approved
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news
