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The association of types of training and practice settings with doctors’ empathy and patient enablement among patients with chronic illness in Hong Kong [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: The increase in non-communicable disease (NCD) is becoming a global health problem and there is an increasing need for primary care doctors to look after these patients although whether family doctors are adequately trained and prepared is ...
Fung, Colman S.C.   +7 more
core   +5 more sources

Family medicine training in Sub-Saharan Africa : South-South cooperation in the Primafamed project as strategy for development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BACKGROUND. Health-care systems based on primary health care (PHC) are more equitable and cost effective. Family medicine trains medical doctors in comprehensive PHC with knowledge and skills that are needed to increase quality of care.
Ayankogbe, Olayinka   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences 2010 Annual Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
2010 annual report includes: External Funding in 2010; Peer-reviewed publications in 2010; Full-time Affiliate and Voluntary Faculty; Honors, Awards and Appointments in ...
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences
core   +8 more sources

Ideal Blood Glucose Control for Type 2 Diabetes Management: A New Clinical Equipoise

open access: yesProceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2011
Diabetes mellitus is a common chronic condition and an old friend to family physicians practising in the community. The long-standing practice had aimed to lower glucose levels in type 2 diabetes to prevent long-term complications.
Choon How How MMed (Family Medicine), MCI (NUS)
doaj   +1 more source

A Review of Health Literacy: Problem, Tools and Interventions

open access: yesProceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2011
Health literacy is an important concept that is increasingly being recognised internationally worldwide as a fundamental skill required in maintaining health and accessing the local healthcare system.
Choon How How MMed (Family Medicine), MCI (NUS)
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Audit on Hypoglycaemic Symptoms in Type 2 Diabetic Patients in SingHealth Polyclinics

open access: yesProceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2011
Introduction: Hypoglycaemia is an important complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus treatment, because it causes recurrent physical and psycho-social morbidity, and it is sometimes fatal.
Hui Min Joanne Quah FCFP (S), MCI (NUS)   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family medicine specialty in Singapore

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2013
Family Medicine in Singapore has its roots in a generalist ethos and found its origin as a counter culture movement to the increasing sub-specialisation of medicine which resulted in a complex healthcare system where that patients are often cared for by ...
Santosh Lional Thomas
doaj   +1 more source

Apuntes sobre el desarrollo del modelo de reforma de la atención primaria y comunitaria de los años 80

open access: yesAtención Primaria Práctica, 2022
Resumen: El proceso de reforma de la atención primaria y comunitaria en España, iniciado en la década de los años 80, se planteó con unos objetivos teóricos ambiciosos que a lo largo de su desarrollo no se han visto cumplidos, al menos en un porcentaje ...
Amando Martín Zurro
doaj   +1 more source

Family Medicine vs Community Medicine in Iran

open access: yesSocial Determinants of Health, 2016
In the early 1970s 15% of all Iranian Medical Graduates (IMG) left Iran and migrated to the United States(1, 2), while 50.000 villages in Iran had no health coverage(3).
Hossain A. Ronaghy
doaj   +1 more source

Empathy in family medicine

open access: yesRevista Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e Familiar, 2011
EMPATIA EM MEDICINA GERAL E FAMILIAR OBJECTIVO: A empatia é essencial nas relações terapêuticas. Uma relação empática tem vários resultados positivos: melhoria da relação médico-doente,aumento da satisfação e da capacidade de diagnóstico, e um ...
António Macedo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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