Background Health professionals from high-income countries are increasingly becoming
involved in international service-learning trips in low and low/middle-income countries …

Introduction Scholars and practitioners in medicine and public health have devoted
significant time and effort to defining the social determinants of health and identifying …

Many family physicians have written about how they influence, nurture, and empower
people in their communities of practice. In this essay, the author writes of the personal joys …

BACKGROUND: In this article we introduce family medicine educators to storytelling as an
important teaching tool. We describe how stories are a critical part of the work of family …

Competencies. Milestones. Entrustable professional activities. These concepts are now on
medical education's center stage as medical student and residency educators work to …

In this essay, I borrow the idea of universal precautions from infection control and suggest
that family physicians use a set of considerations, based on the mnemonic UNIVERSAL, to …

For years the United States has been a training ground for physicians from developing c
countries. Conversely, there is much to be gained by US physicians, particularly emergency …

The practice of medicine is full of ethical challenges. Although ethical principles and
organizational formats can help clinicians manage these challenges, they do not necessarily …

Despite the overwhelming need for primary health care in Ecuador, medical education and
practice are still largely based on specialization. The few family physician graduates from …

This book is a unique collection of personal reflections and ideas from the Annals of Family
Medicine, a primary care research journal. Each article has some connection to primary care …