Medicine: Postgraduate

Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking provides authoritative, step-by-step guidance on performing the patient interview and physical examination, applying clinical reasoning, shared decision-making, and other core assessment skills--all based on a firm understanding of clinical evidence.

Based on author Eugene Toy's proven learning system, this powerful primer on how to approach clinical problems teaches you to think like a doctor - and improves your shelf exam score. Case Files: Family Medicine reviews 60 high-yield family medicine cases, each with USMLE-format review questions and clinical pearls that highlight key concepts. In this score-boosting resource, you'll find must-know family medicine cases in an interactive and memorable format written by experienced educators.

Lab Literacy for Canadian Doctors is an affordable and comprehensive pocket guide for choosing appropriate lab tests. It quickly and efficiently improves patient care through better test decisions for clinical situations.

Patient Education is a collection of explanations of common medical problems presented to GPs, written with the patient in mind in simple, non-technical terms. The book presents one page per condition so they can be photocopied and distributed by family physicians to their patients accordingly.

McWhinney defines the principles and practices of family medicine as a separate and distinct field of practice. His initial sections cover the basis principles and philosophies of family medicine and a later section discusses the approach to the patients with common diseases encountered in practice(these discussions not only address these clinical problems, but each is a workshop for incorporating what it means to be a family physician into everyday practice).

This book is a high-yield, targeted, rapid review for the American Board of Family Medicine Certification and Recertification Examination and the In-training Examination for Family Medicine Residents. Written in the most distilled, concise format, the book highlights certain crucial facts that are consistently used in the development of Board questions, and that candidates should study thoroughly in the last few weeks before the examination.

Maximize your exam preparation time with this quick-hit question and answer review. The unique question and single-answer format eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice Q&A reviews and reinforces only the correct answers you'll need to know on exam day.

Family Medicine: PreTest Self-Assessment & Review is the perfect way to assess your knowledge of Family Medicine for the USMLE Step 2 CK and shelf exams.

Case histories and multiple-choice questions equip you with the most current developments and information in family medicine, offering all the assistance you need to maximize your preparation for the ABFM exam.

Organized in easy-to-use A-Z format, this book covers thousands of medical terms from the common cold to the Lyme Disease. Hundreds of different surgical procedures and tests are explained, as well as the benefits and potential side effects of drugs and treatments.

Gathering the expertise of over 1,000 medical experts from across the nation, well-known medical writer June Engel has teamed up with University of Toronto`s Michael Evans, a practising physician who brings his own clinic-based experience to the book`s contents for this edition.

Database provides access to product monographs, gives contact information for Canada's poison control centers, various health organizations, manufacturers, and distributors of pharmaceutical products, and provides "Information for the Patient" pages, and therapeutic information.

Gathorne-Hardy has travelled all over Britain talking to dozens of GPs; from the private doctor with a superbly equipped subterranean surgery to over-worked inner-city GPs (One, in a Scottish slum practice, with patients too poor to have shoes) to a doctor in a remote Highland inducement practice. He visits with the doctors, sits in on consultations, goes to practice meetings and their (sometimes indiscreet) dinner parties.

This book takes the layman behind the closed doors of the doctor's office to learn the mysteries of the medical profession.

From the Deptartment of Family Medicine, McMaster University.

Family physicians are the quarterbacks of the health care team. The team may have its other specialists, but it cannot perform without leaders who have the vision of the entire field, and know when and how to carry of the action themselves, or to recognize instinctively when and to whom they must hand the ball.

Holdings: 1967-2018

Family Medicine, the official journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, publishes original research, systematic reviews, narrative essays, and policy analyses relevant to the discipline of family medicine, particularly focusing on primary care medical education, health workforce policy, and health services research.

1982-1993

Family Practice is an international journal aimed at practitioners, teachers, and researchers in the fields of family medicine, general practice, and primary care in both developed and developing countries. The journal's range and content covers such areas as health care delivery, epidemiology, public health, and clinical case studies.

Holdings: 1992-1999

Holdings: 1974-2015

Holdings: 1969-1985