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Developing an intervention to assist older patients communication with their GP practice after discharge from hospital [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective The GP-MATE study has built a new intervention for family medicine and patients/carers through co-design. Study Design and Analysis This four-year NIHR funded study used Experience-Based-Co-Design informed by a patient experience film and ethnography in family medicine.

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Primary Care Physicians Responses to Treatment Burden in People With Type 2 Diabetes: A Qualitative Video Analysis in China [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the approaches general practitioners (GPs) use to respond to the treatment burden faced by people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 29 videos of GP-patient consultations in an academic general practice clinic in China.

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Using media to enhance pediatric patient recruitment in primary care [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To compare demographic, clinical and psychosocial characteristics of children with FAP and IBS who are recruited by their GP versus via media. Setting: GPs from local GP practices. Population studied: Children aged 7-17 years with FAP or IBS according to their GP. years, interquartile range 1.5-4.6

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

It would probably be harder to find the support if on your own, but after you obtain your license, you could theoretically start your own practice as a General Practitioner (GP). Thirty or so years ago, this was not abnormal, but it has since heavily fallen out of favor.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

One of those tools is eradar from UCSF and Deborah Barnes work, but there are several others of a similar kind that takes readily available information from an electronic medical record for patients who have them, who are in care and uses various associations with cognitive impairment to create clusters of individuals.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Don’t worry; HIPAA laws protect your privacy and medical information. Is a General Physician (GP) the same as a Family Physician (FP)? A general physician (GP) is not the same as a family physician (FP). A physician also may consider themselves a GP if they began practicing before Family Medicine became a specialty (in 1969).

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Over The Top

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

I have consumed so much information in the past two weeks that whatever comes out of my head now is simply a mish-mash of other people's words, advice and opinions. Will a night nurse or a GP go into her house to help her to die well, wearing a full hazmat suit? I am no longer the master of my own thoughts.