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Within the faculty development program of a Department of Family Medicine at a major research university, bulletin boards offer an alternative method for communicating new information, reinforcing knowledge previously acquired, and stimulating faculty to think about new ideas. This paper describes a five-step strategy for integrating bulletin boards into a faculty development program.
Home care providers rarely initiate research because of limited resources and the perception that research belongs to academic institutions. A survey of the affiliates of the Visiting Nurse Associations of America identified the types of research activities performed and the interest level of nurses in participating in research activities.
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Interactive videodisk training programs offer a new instructional approach to demands for technical skills training. This article highlights the demands for staff development providers to address technical skills training through interactive videodisk modalities.
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The Cleveland Free-Net is the nation's first free open-access computer system providing health information to the public. An online survey was developed for the family medicine clinic housed within the Free-Net to study the characteristics of the users of the system and the reason they selected the Free-Net as a source of health information. Three areas were addressed: 1) user demographics; 2) content analysis of questions; and 3) reasons Free-Net was used instead of the person's own health care provider. An analysis of the initial system done in 1985 revealed that early users of the system were known to be predominantly white male professionals, generally in the 25-35 age range. In comparison to that profile, more of the users in this study were women, but the majority of users continued to be white male professionals. Questions asked can be classified in six categories: diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, medications, laboratory tests, and prevention. The main categories of medical concerns were cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, obstetrical, and gynecologic problems. Users tended to use the Free-Net for health information rather than their physician because the traditional means was not always appropriate for the life-style of this population.
Mentor relationships have long been advocated as an important mechanism for facilitating the personal and professional development of junior members of a profession. The relative youth of the discipline of family medicine and the bimodal age distribution of its members limit the availability of mentors for junior faculty. Junior faculty members seeking mentor relationships can benefit from taking a proactive approach to identifying needs likely to be met by a mentor. These needs include: professional socialization, role modeling, nurturing, teaching, and advocacy. Multiple mentors may be required to meet these needs. Family medicine departments can foster mentor relationships by providing formal and informal mechanisms for interaction between junior faculty members and the senior faculty within and outside the department. Future research which characterizes successful components of mentor relationships and examines creative ways of meeting mentoring needs would benefit the discipline of family medicine.
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