BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This article describes the development of the first training
program in family medicine in Ethiopia that was launched on February 4, 2013, at Addis …

… Brian M. Comelson Family and Community Medicine Wellesley-St. Michael’s Hospital …
Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Brian M. Cornelson, MD …

Family physicians are often faced with multi-factorial problems which are difficult to
understand and document. Patients are not isolated beings; rather, they are participants in …

Background: Building the capacity of local health systems to provide high-quality, self-sustaining
medical education and health care is the central purpose for many global health …

Jet lag is a symptom complex resulting from travel across time zones, which can incapacitate
travellers for several days. It is a result of the abrupt changes forced on travellers' sense of …

I am troubled by present-day society’s zealous identification of past wrongs by looking at
historic figures through the lens of our present-day values. Turns out our saint Osler has demons…

Part one contains chapters on gen-eral considerations of aging: the physiology, psychosocial
aspects, pharmacokinetic considerations, guidelines and principles for geriatric prescrib-…

I'm very fortunate to have all this space and these appliances just for me; it's an apartment
they keep for extended-stay visitors. I think it has been a while since anyone has used it, and I …

The author makes a number of important, relevant and sensitive observations about the
difficulties patients may encounter in presenting their sex-ual concerns directly, the impact of …

The authors make a persuasive argument, but who are they trying to persuade? Health care
providers are clear that population heterogeneity is a major factor in many conditions, …