Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of post-coronary artery
disease (CAD) depression diagnosis on heart failure (HF) incidence. Background …

OBJECTIVES: An association between depression and coronary artery disease (CAD) is
well established. Poor adherence to cardiac treatments may be one way depression could …

Academic health centers (AHCs) are experiencing turmoil in all three of their traditional
missions of teaching, research, and patient care. The authors examine origins of universities …

Negotiating a resource package as a potential new department chair is common practice in
academic medicine. The foundations for this negotiation include the historical presence of …

Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with
accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine, as …

Context: Most graduates of rural residencies enter rural practice. Rural residencies therefore
have emerged over the past 2 decades to increase the supply of rural physicians. However …

Trends in invasive meningococcal disease in Utah during 1995–2005 have differed
substantially from US trends in incidence rate and serogroup and age distributions …

Thank you for that kind introduction. I am honored by the invitation to speak to you tonight.
For this is an evening of ceremony and induction, a moment when both teacher and pupil …

Nutrition screening is an essential component when providing health care for the older
person. With the paradigm shift of geriatric care from a medical to a functional model …

This chapter discusses family medicine. Family practice is an official medical specialty under
the jurisdiction of the American Board of Family Practice. To qualify as a specialty, a field …