Family Medicine Resources

Welcome to family medicine resources. This site contains material useful to teachers of family medicine. It was designed by Yonah Yaphe MD, director of research of the Department of Family Medicine at the Rabin Medical Centre in Petach Tikvah, Israel.

Here you will find files containing slide shows for presentations on family medicine topics and links to other family medicine sites.

Enjoy your visit!

For presentations on Family Assessment click here:

1.      The Genogram in family assessment

2.      Assessing Family Function using the PRACTICE Model

3.      Concepts of structural family therapy

For presentations on assorted teaching topics click here:

1.  Breaking bad news

2.   Investigating medical errors

3.   Rational drug prescribing

4.   Chronic disease management

5.   Teaching evidence based medicine

6.   Teaching continuity of care

7.   Research in family medicine

8.   Evidence based education

9.   Prevention for the elderly

10.   Interpreting blood counts

11. Using video in teaching

12. Examination of the ear

13. Interpretation of serum biochemistry

14. Research ethics in family medicine

15. Statistics for family physicians

16. How can I become a better teacher?

17. Qualitative research methods for family physicians

18. Family medicine in basic medical education

19. Understanding patient autonomy in family medicine ethics

20. Use of role play in teaching family medicine

21. Introduction to the family medicine clerkship

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22. Open fracture management

23. Promoting research in family medicine: The Tel Aviv Model

24. Anaphylactic shock

25. Principles of counselling

26. Traveller's health

27. Herpes zoster

28. Scorpion stings and snake bites

29. Teaching communication skills to family doctors - Kusadasi 2005

30. An introduction to comorbidity - Kranjska Gora 2005

31. Formulating research questions in family medicine research

32. Case reports as a research method in family medicine

33. Survey methods in family medicine research

34. Case-control studies

For the results of selected research projects click here:

1.      Use of St. John's wort for depression

2.   Reducing excessive alendronate use

3.   Changing resistance of bacterial pathogens in UTI

4.   Natural history of a research network

5.   Steroids in tonsillitis

6.      Photophobia as a predictor of serious eye disease

Useful family medicine websites for teachers:

European Academy of Teachers in general practice: www.euract.org

PubMed
http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
Easy access to Medline for searching medical literature.

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
http://www.stfm.org/
An excellent website.

Resources for academic family medicine course

Examples of qualitative research

To see Dr. Yaphe's CV click here: