BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Demographic trends show an increasing older adult population. Therefore, family medicine training programs may need to reevaluate how well their residents perform clinic procedures essential to older adults. Our objective was to compare the rates of the most frequently per…
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Incoming family medicine (FM) residents start residency with different levels of procedural training. Understanding their baseline skill level is necessary to plan the educational experiences and teaching methods that will provide the desired knowledge, skills, and attitud…
Background and Objectives: The collapse of the Communist regime has required many newly independent countries to reform their health care systems. This article presents the unique experience of Estonia's development of family practice training and the introduction of this specialty to the existing h…
Background and Objectives: This study was designed to determine whether medical school graduates who completed undergraduate degrees in particular college majors were more likely to enter primary care residencies. John L. Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments was used to…
In the 1960s general practitioners were a dying race in Norway. Today general practice is a highly approved specialty among doctors as well as patients. Better education is one of the revitalizing factors. General practice is currently taught as a mandatory subject at all four universities in Norway…
