community medicine

Summary

Summary: A branch of medicine concerned with the total health of the individual within the home environment and in the community, and with the application of comprehensive care to the prevention and treatment of illness in the entire community.

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Do community medicine residency trainees learn through journal club? An experience from a developing country
    Saima Akhund
    Human Development Programme, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
    BMC Med Educ 6:43. 2006
  2. ncbi What impact will an increased number of teaching general practices have on patients, doctors and medical students?
    Jonathan Mathers
    Health Impact Assessment Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
    Med Educ 38:1219-28. 2004
  3. ncbi Community-based education programme of Dokuz Eylül School of Medicine
    Berna Musal
    , Department of Medical Education, Inciralti, Izmir, Turkey
    Educ Health (Abingdon) 16:218-21. 2003
  4. ncbi Sidney Kark's contributions to epidemiology and community medicine
    J D Kark
    Int J Epidemiol 32:882-4. 2003
  5. ncbi Evidence-based public health, community medicine, preventive care
    Milos Jenicek
    Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Canada
    Med Sci Monit 9:SR1-7. 2003
  6. ncbi Frequency of alcohol use and obesity in community medicine patients
    James E Rohrer
    Health Services Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, USA
    BMC Fam Pract 6:17. 2005
  7. ncbi [Skills and requirements of residents. Teaching resources to help tutors in a situation of change]
    Francisco J Sanchez Marin
    Fundación para la Formación e Investigación Sanitarias de la Región de Murcia, Hospital General Universitario Reina Sofia, Murcia, Espana
    Aten Primaria 39:535-9. 2007
  8. ncbi How a community-based organization and an academic health center are creating an effective partnership for training and service
    Dodi Meyer
    Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Division of General Pediatrics, New York, New York, USA
    Acad Med 80:327-33. 2005
  9. ncbi Assessment of competencies in physicians-in-training through the delivery of a community-based health curriculum using distance learning
    Andrea T Bortot
    Joint Primary Care Fellowship, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Med Teach 26:615-20. 2004
  10. ncbi Active precepting in the residency clinic: a pilot study of a new model
    David W Lillich
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
    Fam Med 37:205-10. 2005

Research Grants

  1. Treatment of Maternal Depression in Home Visitation: Mother and Child Impacts
    ROBERT THOMPSON AMMERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2010
  2. REDUCTION OF TRIGLYCERIDES IN WOMEN ON HRT
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 2007
  3. Communities as Partners in Cancer Clinical Trials
    SARENA SEIFER; Fiscal Year: 2007
  4. Health Pomotion and Disease Prevention Research Center
    Daniel Blumenthal; Fiscal Year: 2007
  5. Oklahoma-UT Southwestern Hemostasis Consortium
    James George; Fiscal Year: 2007
  6. Treatment of Depression in Mothers in Home Visitation
    ROBERT AMMERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2007
  7. Selective screening for osteoporosis in younger postmenopausal women
    Margaret Gourlay; Fiscal Year: 2007
  8. Sensitization to brain antigens following stroke.
    Kyra Becker; Fiscal Year: 2007
  9. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN WOMEN
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 2007
  10. 2006 Clinical Research Training Institute
    James George; Fiscal Year: 2006

Detail Information

Publications127 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi Do community medicine residency trainees learn through journal club? An experience from a developing country
    Saima Akhund
    Human Development Programme, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
    BMC Med Educ 6:43. 2006
    ..Also we have found no published effectiveness studies of this teaching modality in Community Medicine (Public Health) in any country...
  2. ncbi What impact will an increased number of teaching general practices have on patients, doctors and medical students?
    Jonathan Mathers
    Health Impact Assessment Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
    Med Educ 38:1219-28. 2004
    ..In light of the ongoing expansion of medical student numbers, many more general practices will be required to participate in undergraduate teaching...
  3. ncbi Community-based education programme of Dokuz Eylül School of Medicine
    Berna Musal
    , Department of Medical Education, Inciralti, Izmir, Turkey
    Educ Health (Abingdon) 16:218-21. 2003
  4. ncbi Sidney Kark's contributions to epidemiology and community medicine
    J D Kark
    Int J Epidemiol 32:882-4. 2003
  5. ncbi Evidence-based public health, community medicine, preventive care
    Milos Jenicek
    Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Canada
    Med Sci Monit 9:SR1-7. 2003
    ..As a result, the already impressive, but still incomplete accomplishments of the evidence-based medical world require further advancements...
  6. ncbi Frequency of alcohol use and obesity in community medicine patients
    James E Rohrer
    Health Services Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, USA
    BMC Fam Pract 6:17. 2005
    ..However, the effects of alcohol use on the risk for obesity have not been thoroughly explored. This study focuses on how frequency of alcohol use is related to the risk of obesity in a community medicine clinic population.
  7. ncbi [Skills and requirements of residents. Teaching resources to help tutors in a situation of change]
    Francisco J Sanchez Marin
    Fundación para la Formación e Investigación Sanitarias de la Región de Murcia, Hospital General Universitario Reina Sofia, Murcia, Espana
    Aten Primaria 39:535-9. 2007
    To determine indicators of the skills and expectations of family and community medicine (FMC) residents (MIR). To construct teaching resources to value skills and expectations individually and continuously.
  8. ncbi How a community-based organization and an academic health center are creating an effective partnership for training and service
    Dodi Meyer
    Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Division of General Pediatrics, New York, New York, USA
    Acad Med 80:327-33. 2005
    ....
  9. ncbi Assessment of competencies in physicians-in-training through the delivery of a community-based health curriculum using distance learning
    Andrea T Bortot
    Joint Primary Care Fellowship, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Med Teach 26:615-20. 2004
    ..This paper describes the background, process and statistical results of their work...
  10. ncbi Active precepting in the residency clinic: a pilot study of a new model
    David W Lillich
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
    Fam Med 37:205-10. 2005
    ..This study's objective was to develop and implement a model of "active precepting" as a teaching and patient care quality improvement project at a community-based family medicine residency program...
  11. ncbi Comparison of knowledge scores of medical students in problem-based learning and traditional curriculum on public health topics
    Erol Gurpinar
    Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, Antalya, Turkey
    BMC Med Educ 5:7. 2005
    ..The purpose of the study was to compare the knowledge scores of medical students in Problem-based Learning and traditional curriculum on public health topics...
  12. ncbi Factors influencing community pediatrics training in residency
    Cynthia S Minkovitz
    J Pediatr 150:119-20, 120.e1-2. 2007
  13. ncbi LOCUS: immunizing medical students against the loss of professional values
    Donald A Carufel-Wert
    Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53711, USA
    Fam Med 39:320-5. 2007
    ..The program consists of a core curriculum delivered through retreats, workshops, and seminars; a mentor relationship with a physician who is engaged in community health services; and a community service project...
  14. ncbi Does Community-Based Education come close to what it should be? A case study from the developing world: students' opinions
    T N Kristina
    Faculties of Medicine of Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia
    Educ Health (Abingdon) 19:179-88. 2006
    ..However, there are doubts whether CBE programmes are appropriately implemented. As a case study, the CBE programme of the Medical Faculty of Diponegoro University (MFDU) in Semarang, Indonesia was evaluated...
  15. ncbi Beyond 'tomorrow's doctors': a review of basic medical education in the UK
    Gaynor Lloyd-Jones
    Medical Teaching Organisation, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, UK
    Ann Trop Paediatr 25:71-8. 2005
    ..Consequences of the initiative include greater choice in the courses now offered to applicants to medical school, the growth of medical education units within medical schools and greater interest in medical education generally...
  16. ncbi Family and community medicine in Saudi Arabia. Development and future
    Ali M Al-Shehri
    Saudi Med J 25:1328-30. 2004
  17. ncbi The state of pediatrics residency training: a period of transformation of graduate medical education
    Theodore C Sectish
    Division of General Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
    Pediatrics 114:832-41. 2004
    ..Strategies are suggested for leaders in graduate medical education to meet the challenges experienced during this period of transformation...
  18. ncbi Continuing effectiveness of a community child health programme for medical students
    Maree O'Keefe
    University of Adelaide, Department of Paediatrics, Women s and Children s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006
    Med Teach 28:683-9. 2006
    ..Although the programme continued to meet its specific aims, a number of agency factors outside the control of the programme coordinators posed real threats to long-term programme success...
  19. ncbi [Evaluation of clinical competence of family medicine trainer]
    M Pedregal González
    Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
    Aten Primaria 34:68-72. 2004
    ..The objective is to use a competence evaluation instrument that, in the short term, will be used not only for trainer accreditation but also for other public sanitary professionals...
  20. ncbi Evaluation and comparison of a 1-month versus a 2-week community pediatrics and advocacy rotation for pediatric residents
    Cynthia Delago
    CARES Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, New Jersey 08084, USA
    Clin Pediatr (Phila) 46:821-30. 2007
    ..Residents' patients' use of Early Intervention services increased 65% during the 5-year period after curriculum introduction. No significant differences in outcome measures were observed between Curriculum A and Curriculum B...
  21. ncbi Teaching professionalism within a community context: perspectives from a national demonstration project
    THOMAS P O'TOOLE
    Georgetown University School of Medicine, NE 113 Medical Dental Building, 3900 Reservoir Rd, NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA
    Acad Med 80:339-43. 2005
    ..0%). This project demonstrates that community-based experiences can provide unique and relevant learning in a professionalism curriculum that can complement existing medical-school-based efforts...
  22. ncbi Dr. A.L. Saha Memorial Oration. National rural health mission: an opportunity to bridge the chasm between prescription, practice & perception of medical education in India
    Chandrakant S Pandav
    Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India
    Indian J Public Health 50:153-9. 2006
  23. ncbi Value of a community pediatrics rotation for residents
    Earnestine Willis
    J Pediatr 148:287-8. 2006
  24. ncbi Assessing the effects of training on knowledge and skills of health personnel: a case study from the family health project in Sindh, Pakistan
    Syed Farid-ul-Hasnain
    Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
    J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 17:26-30. 2005
    ..This is a comparative analysis to assess the knowledge and skills of health care providers in Area Focus Approach (AFA) health facilities with the ones in non-AFA health care facilities...
  25. ncbi Advocacy by any other name would smell as sweet
    Lisa J Chamberlain
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:453. 2006
  26. ncbi Development of the Community-Oriented Medical Education curriculum of Pakistan: a case report on the national initiative on curriculum development
    Lubna A Baig
    University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
    Educ Health (Abingdon) 19:223-8. 2006
  27. ncbi [Applying a teaching programme in community-based medical education]
    W Al-Faisal
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
    East Mediterr Health J 12:398-404. 2006
    ..The students agreed with the structure of the programme and the role of the tutor and community, but were concerned about difficulties in implementation. Community members were enthusiastic about the programme...
  28. ncbi Facilitating the integrated small-group tutorial in a medical programme--the University of Transkei (Unitra) experience
    Jehu E Iputo
    Quality Assurance Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
    S Afr Med J 95:959-62. 2005
    ..Regular training of tutors is carried out to assist faculty in adapting to the new methods of training. Performance of tutors is regularly assessed by students...
  29. ncbi Empirical evidence for symbiotic medical education: a comparative analysis of community and tertiary-based programmes
    Paul Worley
    Flinders University Rural Clinical School, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Med Educ 40:109-16. 2006
    ..The examination performance of students on this course has been shown to be higher than that of their tertiary hospital-based peers...
  30. ncbi A walk in the patients' shoes: a step toward competency development in systems-based practice
    Elisa Alter Zenni
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USA
    Ambul Pediatr 6:54-7. 2006
    ..To implement and evaluate the effectiveness of scenario-based learning as a method for teaching systems-based practice to pediatric residents...
  31. ncbi The Community Follow-up Project (CFUP)
    M S Sherina
    Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia
    Med J Malaysia 60:54-7. 2005
    ....
  32. ncbi The Montana model: integrated primary care and behavioral health in a family practice residency program
    Claire Oakley
    Biology Department, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT, USA
    J Rural Health 21:351-4. 2005
    ....
  33. ncbi Effect of a community oriented problem based learning curriculum on quality of primary care delivered by graduates: historical cohort comparison study
    Robyn Tamblyn
    McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1A3
    BMJ 331:1002. 2005
    ....
  34. ncbi Advocacy is not a specialty
    Abraham B Bergman
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:892. 2005
  35. ncbi Child advocacy training: curriculum outcomes and resident satisfaction
    Lisa J Chamberlain
    Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:842-7. 2005
    ..Many health problems affecting children today are based in the community and cannot be easily addressed in the office setting. Child advocacy is an effective approach for pediatricians to take...
  36. ncbi Evaluation of a task-based community oriented teaching model in family medicine for undergraduate medical students in Iraq
    Samim A Al-Dabbagh
    Department of Community Medicine, Mosul College of Medicine, Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq
    BMC Med Educ 5:31. 2005
    ..The aim of this study is to evaluate a task-based, community oriented teaching model of family medicine for undergraduate students in Iraqi medical schools...
  37. ncbi The family medicine clerkship over the past 10 years at Ben Gurion University of the Negev
    Roni Peleg
    Department of Family Medicine, Goldman Faculty of Medical Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
    Teach Learn Med 17:258-61. 2005
    ..Most medical teaching takes place in the academic hospital setting and students continue to have little exposure to community-based medicine...
  38. ncbi Community pediatrics: gender differences in perspectives of residents
    Cynthia S Minkovitz
    Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Ambul Pediatr 6:326-31. 2006
    ..We assessed gender differences in pediatric residents' involvement in and perspectives regarding community activities...
  39. ncbi Evaluation of residency training in the delivery of culturally effective care
    Maria Luisa Zuniga
    Division of Community Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
    Med Educ 40:1192-200. 2006
    ..To augment resident training in the delivery of culturally effective care in order to improve clinician capacity to effectively care for patients from diverse backgrounds...
  40. ncbi Lessons learned from community site administrators involved in pediatric community rotations
    Jennifer G Christner
    Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
    Ambul Pediatr 4:121-3. 2004
    ..Understanding these perspectives may lead to better partnerships and experiences for both the residents and the community sites...
  41. ncbi Prevalence of community-oriented primary care knowledge, training, and practice
    Shirley K Longlett
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Quincy 62301, USA
    Fam Med 34:183-9. 2002
    ..This study examines COPC-related aspects of training and practice and whether or not respondents report COPC knowledge. The study also compares residency program and physician responses...
  42. ncbi Pediatrics in the community: community pediatrics training initiative (CPTI)
    Jeffrey Kaczorowski
    CPTI American Academy of Pediatrics, USA
    Pediatr Rev 29:31-2. 2008
    ..The challenge is how to make such experiences available to all pediatric residents and pediatricians.-C. Andrew Aligne, MD, MPH, Section Editor...
  43. ncbi Integrating population health into a family medicine clerkship: 7 years of evolution
    Mark Unverzagt
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
    Fam Med 35:45-51. 2003
    ..The curriculum integrates population health/community medicine projects and problem-based tutorials into a community-based, ambulatory clinical experience...
  44. ncbi Training community-responsive physicians
    John R Brill
    St Luke s Family Practice Residency, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Milwaukee, 53215, USA
    Acad Med 77:747. 2002
    ..Luke's family practice residency program has developed a longitudinal community medicine curriculum designed to teach the four domains of physician-community involvement: (1) insight into ..
  45. ncbi Participatory identification of learning objectives in eight medical schools in Vietnam
    Luu Ngoc Hoat
    Faculty of Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
    Med Teach 29:683-90. 2007
    ..The process is described as an example of a comprehensive and bottom-up approach to curriculum development that could provide an example for other disciplines and schools in Vietnam or elsewhere...
  46. ncbi Challenges to rural medical education: a student perspective
    Gabrielle Delaney
    Greater Murray Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia
    Aust J Rural Health 10:168-72. 2002
    ..Moreover, there is potential for flow-on benefits to the community following integration of new information technology into the local health infrastructure...
  47. ncbi [Doctors in training: a stimulus for society]
    R Vinyeta
    Aten Primaria 29:529-30. 2002
  48. ncbi The state of community medicine training in family practice residency programs
    Marcus Plescia
    Department of Family Medicine, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC 28232, USA
    Fam Med 34:177-82. 2002
    This paper describes the state and nature of community medicine training in family practice residency programs.
  49. ncbi Early patient contact in primary care: a new challenge
    A C Haffling
    Department of Community Medicine, Lund University, , Sweden
    Med Educ 35:901-8. 2001
    ..CONCLUSIONS: The teaching of junior medical students is maintained by the GPs' enthusiasm for teaching. However, teacher training is required and the crucial issues of time and space have to be considered...
  50. ncbi Patients consulting with students in general practice: survey of patients' satisfaction and their role in teaching
    Ann Christin Haffling
    Lund University, Sweden
    Med Teach 30:622-9. 2008
    ..General practice is a common setting for medical students' clinical training. However, little is known about patients' views on consulting with senior students...
  51. ncbi Training interns in population-based research: learners' feedback from 13 consecutive batches from a medical school in India
    S Chaturvedi
    Department of Community Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
    Med Educ 35:585-9. 2001
    ..CONCLUSIONS: This study empirically demonstrates that with some extra effort from teachers, interns can be exposed to a hands-on learning experience in population-based research, on a systematic basis, without additional resources...
  52. ncbi Introducing the IMCI community component into the curriculum of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira
    S H AbdelRahman
    Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan
    East Mediterr Health J 14:731-41. 2008
    ..It describes the community-based courses into which the community component was integrated, the implementation and impact of the programme and the constraints faced...
  53. ncbi The development and evaluation of community health competencies for family medicine
    Marie Wolff
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
    WMJ 106:397-401. 2007
    ..This focus requires a multidimensional perspective on community health that examines the determinants, ranges, and variations of health status and disease in the community as a whole...
  54. ncbi The development and evaluation of a community attachment scheme for first-year medical students
    David Hannay
    Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, Community Sciences Centre, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK
    Med Teach 25:161-6. 2003
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  55. ncbi General practice: a leading provider of medical student education in the 21st century?
    Jill E Thistlethwaite
    Centre for Innovation in Professional Health Education and Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Med J Aust 187:124-8. 2007
    ....
  56. ncbi Resident training and education in the United States
    Renee R Jenkins
    Department of Pediatrics, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
    Pediatrics 112:752-4. 2003
    ....
  57. ncbi The challenges of teaching in a general practice setting
    Rod Pearce
    Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Med J Aust 187:129-32. 2007
    ....
  58. ncbi Medical training in community medicine: a comprehensive, academic, service-based curriculum
    Judith A Fisher
    Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
    J Community Health 28:407-20. 2003
    The University of Pennsylvania's Family Practice Residency includes a significant community medicine component in order to accomplish the goals of addressing the health-related needs of the university's neighbors; exposing residents to ..
  59. ncbi Evaluation of a community-based pediatrics residency rotation using narrative analysis
    Nancy P Chin
    Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Division of Public Health Practice, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
    Acad Med 78:1266-70. 2003
    ....
  60. ncbi [Proposal for a map of methods and techniques to help tutors to "travel through the teaching programme"]
    José Saura Llamas
    Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria, Centro de Salud Barrio del Carmen, Servicio Murciano de Salud, C Atenea, 21 El Palmar, Murcia, Spain
    Aten Primaria 39:497-505. 2007
  61. ncbi Ambulatory care education: how do academic medical centers, affiliated residency teaching sites, and community-based practices compare?
    Patricia A Carney
    Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
    Acad Med 79:69-77. 2004
    ....
  62. ncbi Introducing practice-based learning and improvement ACGME core competencies into a family medicine residency curriculum
    Mary Thoesen Coleman
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, Med Center One, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:238-47. 2003
    ..A curricular change was designed at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Louisville, to address selected ACGME competencies by incorporating practice-based ..
  63. ncbi Change in cardiovascular risk factors during a 10-year community intervention program
    S Giampaoli
    Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, , Rome, Italy
    Acta Cardiol 52:411-22. 1997
    ..Between 1983 and 1993 several intervention activities based on community medicine were carried out in the treatment area...
  64. ncbi [Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in community medicine: management intentions and cost estimates]
    M Jeantet
    , , ,
    Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss 94:1103-9. 2001
    This study was undertaken to describe the declared management of atrial fibrillation in community medicine in France for patients between 50 and 80 years of age, and to estimate the total cost of treatment for Society in the year 2000...
  65. ncbi 2006 Job Lewis Smith Award acceptance address: Is there an OWA (other weird arrangement) in your future?
    Stanley I Fisch
    Harlingen Pediatrics Associates, 321 S 21st St, Harlingen, TX 78550, USA
    Pediatrics 120:149-54. 2007
  66. ncbi Community health
    Meghashyam Bhat
    East Mediterr Health J 14:747. 2008
  67. ncbi Primary prevention of violence against women: training needs of violence practitioners
    Sandra L Martin
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Violence Against Women 15:44-56. 2009
    ..They want to learn about working at the community level (rather than the individual level), developing and evaluating prevention activities, and identifying effective primary prevention programs...
  68. ncbi Healing the schism: medicine and public health in Pakistan
    Greg Pappas
    Faculty of Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
    Educ Health (Abingdon) 21:173. 2008
    ..We recommend the creation of public health schools that focus on leadership to renew an emphasis on unifying health concepts and actions following successful examples to bring medicine and public health together...
  69. ncbi Community-based education in Nigerian medical schools: students' perspectives
    D E Heestand Skinner
    Office of Educational Development, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
    Educ Health (Abingdon) 21:83. 2008
    ..This study seeks to identify and describe the CBE programs in accredited Nigerian medical schools and to report students' assessments of the knowledge and skills gained during their community-based educational experience...
  70. ncbi Does general surgery residency prepare surgeons for community practice in British Columbia?
    Hamish Hwang
    Department of General Surgery, Vernon Jubilee Hospital, Vernon, and the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
    Can J Surg 52:196-200. 2009
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  71. ncbi Collaboration with traditional health practitioners in the provision of skin care for all in Africa
    Terence J Ryan
    University of Oxford, UK
    Int J Dermatol 50:564-70. 2011
    ..The Task Force recommends education of traditional and modern health practitioners to improve collaboration, safety and efficacy. Thereby, it aims to improve skin care and to reinforce the best practices...
  72. ncbi Monitoring asthma status
    Christopher Skappak
    Department of Pediatric Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 11:174-80. 2011
    ....
  73. ncbi [General practitioner and family practitioner are not synonyms: what is the difference?]
    Bruno Paccagnella
    Comunità Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
    Ig Sanita Pubbl 62:91-7. 2006
  74. ncbi Health is still social: contemporary examples in the age of the genome
    Timothy H Holtz
    Institute of Human Rights at Emory University, and in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
    PLoS Med 3:e419. 2006
  75. ncbi Continuous quality improvement and community-based faculty development through an innovative site visit program at one institution
    Rebecca Malik
    Undergraduate Family Medicine, Site Visit Committee, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Acad Med 82:465-8. 2007
    ..quality-improvement program was developed by the undergraduate program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine to facilitate and document both self- and peer-assessment...
  76. ncbi Indian Public Health Association. 51st Annual Conference of Indian Public Health Association, Kolkata. Presidential speech. Socio political determinants of public health
    Deoki Nandan
    Indian J Public Health 51:159-61. 2007
  77. ncbi [About the best physician for the community]
    Josep E Banos
    Med Clin (Barc) 127:797. 2006
  78. ncbi Medical students as family-health advocates: Arabian Gulf University experience
    Neil Grant
    Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain
    Med Teach 29:e117-21. 2007
    ..The family-studies programme requires all third-year students to complete a wide series of activities under family-physician supervision...
  79. ncbi [X conference of semFYC residents]
    Fernando García Martín
    Aten Primaria 38:373-4. 2006
  80. ncbi Dennis Carlson
    Faith McLellan
    Lancet 370:649. 2007
  81. ncbi Psychotropic prescriptions in a sample including both healthy and mood and disruptive disordered preschoolers: relationships to diagnosis, impairment, prescriber type, and assessment methods
    Joan L Luby
    Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 17:205-15. 2007
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  82. ncbi Comparing academic performance of medical students in distributed learning sites: the McMaster experience
    Flavia Bianchi
    McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    Med Teach 30:67-71. 2008
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  83. ncbi [Comments on the future of our speciality]
    Manuel María Ortega Marlasca
    Aten Primaria 40:108; author reply 108-9. 2008
  84. ncbi Pragmatism and idealism in community child health
    Graham Vimpani
    Kaleidoscope in Greater Newcastle, Hunter Children's Health Network, New South Wales, Australia
    J Paediatr Child Health 42:306-8. 2006
  85. ncbi Using an office system intervention to increase breast cancer screening
    L S Kinsinger
    Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 13:507-14. 1998
    ..At follow-up, few practices had a complete office system for breast cancer screening. Outreach approaches to assist primary care practices implement office systems are promising but need further development...
  86. ncbi Medical education in Pakistan: current curriculum non-compliant with the community doctors
    M Shahid Shamim
    J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 13:183. 2003
  87. ncbi New opportunities to study real-world patient management
    Norman L Foster
    Scand J Gastroenterol 38:341-2. 2003
  88. ncbi Task-oriented processes in care (TOPIC): a proven model for teaching ambulatory care
    John Rogers
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
    Fam Med 35:337-42. 2003
    ..This paper describes methods for teaching this model to clerkship students and reports 4 years of outcome data...
  89. ncbi Geriatric medicine in the European Union: future scenarios
    S A Duursma
    Specialist Geriatric Medicine, University Medical Centre, University Hospital Utrecht, Koperslagershoek 21, 3981 SB Bunnik, The Netherlands
    Z Gerontol Geriatr 36:204-15. 2003
    ..The collected data can not be considered as a representation of the ideas of the European Union geriatricians. However, they may contribute to the discussion on the national and European level about the future of the specialty...
  90. ncbi Videoconferenced grand rounds: needs assessment for community specialists
    Joan Sargeant
    Program Development and Evaluation, Office of Continuing Medical Education, Dalhousie University, 5849 University Avenue, Halifax, NS B3H 4H7
    J Contin Educ Health Prof 23:116-23. 2003
    ..As requirements for specialists to participate in accredited learning activities become more rigorous, videoconferencing grand rounds may be one way to increase access to important learning activities...
  91. ncbi Community preceptors' views of their identities as teachers
    Susan Starr
    Department of Pediatrics and the Community Faculty Development Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
    Acad Med 78:820-5. 2003
    ..Identifying factors that enhance teacher identity may be helpful for the recruitment and retention of high-quality community faculty...
  92. ncbi Multidisciplinary rehabilitation versus usual care for chronic low back pain in the community: effects on quality of life
    Eberhard Lang
    Department of Neurology, University of Erlangen Nuremberg, D 91054 Erlangen, Germany
    Spine J 3:270-6. 2003
    ..Implementation of multidisciplinary rehabilitation services in community medicine may enhance both early availability and treatment capacity for comprehensive back pain rehabilitation.
  93. ncbi A prospective, community-based study on virologic assessment among elderly people with and without symptoms of acute respiratory infection
    Judith M Graat
    Division of Human Nutrition and Epidemiology, Wageningen University, Bomenweg 4, P.O. Box 8129, 6703 HD, Wageningen, The Netherlands
    J Clin Epidemiol 56:1218-23. 2003
    ....
  94. ncbi Teaching as therapy: cross sectional and qualitative evaluation of patients' experiences of undergraduate psychiatry teaching in the community
    Kate Walters
    Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London N19 5LW
    BMJ 326:740. 2003
    ..To explore the impact of participating in undergraduate teaching in general practice for patients with common mental disorders...
  95. ncbi Training primary care physicians in community eye health. Experiences from India
    Sanjeev K Gupta
    Community Ophthalmology Section, Dr R P Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110 029, India
    Indian J Ophthalmol 50:63-8. 2002
    ..There is immense value addition from training primary-care physicians in community eye health. Despite a long series of training sessions, trainer fatigue was minimal; therefore, such capsules can be replicated with great success...
  96. ncbi Competency in community-oriented health care. Instrument development
    S P Chen
    Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612 7350
    Eval Health Prof 22:358-70. 1999
    ..Content Validity of the instrument is based on the literature review, focus group sessions, and expert opinion. The instrument may be used to assess competency of health professions students in COHC, but continued testing is needed...
  97. ncbi Community-based education improves stroke knowledge
    K Becker
    University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Wash, USA
    Cerebrovasc Dis 11:34-43. 2001
    ..Health education campaigns can increase community awareness and may decrease time to hospital presentation among stroke patients...
  98. ncbi Clinical detection of depression among community-based elderly people with self-reported symptoms of depression
    J Garrard
    Institute of Health Services Research, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 53:M92-101. 1998
    ....
  99. ncbi A primary care preceptorship for first-year medical students coordinated by an Area Health Education Center program: a six-year review
    L Rooks
    Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, Florida State University, College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4300, USA
    Acad Med 76:489-92. 2001
    ..After six years, this preceptorship has been demonstrated to have a positive and meaningful impact on medical student education and development...
  100. ncbi Assessment of the effects of intensive training of community based staff in the screening of children for disorders of growth and puberty
    F J Cowan
    Department of Child Health, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XW, UK
    J Med Screen 8:15-7. 2001
    ....
  101. ncbi Evaluating primary care as a base for medical education: the report of the Cambridge Community-based Clinical Course
    N Oswald
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Med Educ 35:782-8. 2001
    ..It remains the most radical attempt to share clinical education in the UK between primary and secondary/tertiary care. Further research is required into providing long-term clinical attachments in NHS primary care settings...

Research Grants76

  1. Treatment of Maternal Depression in Home Visitation: Mother and Child Impacts
    ROBERT THOMPSON AMMERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Results from this study will have profound public health implications through demonstrating the effectiveness of a readily disseminated treatment for sociodemographically high-risk mothers and their children. ..
  2. REDUCTION OF TRIGLYCERIDES IN WOMEN ON HRT
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  3. Communities as Partners in Cancer Clinical Trials
    SARENA SEIFER; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  4. Health Pomotion and Disease Prevention Research Center
    Daniel Blumenthal; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Abstract not provided ..
  5. Oklahoma-UT Southwestern Hemostasis Consortium
    James George; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..A valuable outcome of the past four years has been the extension of collaborative relationship to the junior faculty members and trainees in our programs. OKLAHOMA-UT SOUTHWESTERN HEMOSTASIS CONSORTIUM CRITIQUES ..
  6. Treatment of Depression in Mothers in Home Visitation
    ROBERT AMMERMAN; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  7. Selective screening for osteoporosis in younger postmenopausal women
    Margaret Gourlay; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..This study will test osteoporosis screening strategies for postmenopausal women under 65 with the goal of preventing fracture. ..
  8. Sensitization to brain antigens following stroke.
    Kyra Becker; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..End of Abstract) ..
  9. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN WOMEN
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The HWS follow up provides a unique opportunity to study the development of new coronary Ca and progression of coronary Ca and relationship to both pre- and postmenopausal risk factors. ..
  10. 2006 Clinical Research Training Institute
    James George; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ....
  11. Health Literacy and Children with Special Needs
    Dolores Acevedo Garcia; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..g. access, care coordination. III. Level of social support moderates the relationship between health literacy and service-related outcomes ..
  12. Morehouse School of Med/Tuskegee Univ/University of Alabama Ca Ctr Partnership
    Edward Partridge; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  13. Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Women (Healthy Women Study)
    Karen A Matthews; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....
  14. CNS antigen sensitization in stroke.
    Kyra Becker; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..Data derived from this study will be used to plan future trials of immunomodulation in patients with stroke. ..
  15. Sensitization to brain antigens following stroke.
    Kyra J Becker; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..abstract_text> ..
  16. Longitudinal, computer assisted analysis in IPF
    Kevin Flaherty; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..If true, changes in high resolution computed tomography could serve as a non-invasive surrogate endpoint in the study of novel agents to treat this devastating disease. (End of Abstract) ..
  17. Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Women (Healthy Women Study)
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ....
  18. Peer Education in Pregnancy Study
    Victoria Persky; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..Results of this study will assist in elucidating the etiologic pathway by which asthma develops early in life, as well as assist in the development of effective intervention programs. ..
  19. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN WOMEN
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..They further note that the identification of early and modifiable risk factors for subclinical disease should lead to prevention or reduction of clinical cardiovascular disease among postmenopausal women. ..
  20. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN WOMEN
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ..They state that it has become the cornerstone of a major research effort in women's health...
  21. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN WOMEN
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 1990
    ....
  22. Prognostication In Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia
    Kevin Flaherty; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..We will utilize survival analysis to define the patient population most likely to have improved survival through lung transplantation. ..
  23. REDUCTION OF TRIGLYCERIDES IN WOMEN ON HRT
    Lewis Kuller; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..NMR spectroscopy of lipoproteins, inflammatory markers, and estrogen metabolites will also be evaluated. Therefore, the primary goal of this trial is the modification of measures of subclinical disease among HRT users. ..
  24. Parenting Effects of Healthy Steps: Utilization & Expec
    Cynthia Minkovitz; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..This study will inform policy and practice regarding whether or not a parenting intervention, highly targeted to child development and behavior when children are 0-3, has effects when children are 5 years of age. ..
  25. THE ROLE OF LYMPHOCYTES IN CEREBRAL ISCHEMIC INJURY
    Kyra Becker; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ....
  26. Longitudinal, computer assisted analysis in IPF
    Kevin R Flaherty; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..If true, changes in high resolution computed tomography could serve as a non-invasive surrogate endpoint in the study of novel agents to treat this devastating disease. (End of Abstract) ..
  27. Clinical Research Training Institute
    James George; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..It is through this near one to one ratio with the trainees that ASH intends to foster and sustain interest in clinical hematologic research and thereby help stimulate the career development of future clinical researchers in hematology. ..
  28. Sensitization to brain antigens following stroke.
    Kyra Becker; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..abstract_text> ..
  29. The Health and Social Context of Infant Death: Reflections from South Africa
    Cynthia Minkovitz; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..It also will provide client-based information that will enable the development of targeted interventions and policies to address these factors and improve service systems and community resources. ..
  30. The Cost-Effectiveness of MRI in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
    LISA SUTER; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The results will address an important unanswered question in Rheumatology that would otherwise require years of costly prospective research. ..
  31. Behavior & Clinical Trials Participation in HIV+ Latinos
    MARIA ZUNIGA DE NUNCIO; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..abstract_text> ..