A New Role of Case Reports in Family Medicine and Primary Care

To our readers, We are immensely proud to present this special issue of the McGill Journal of Medicine (MJM) focused on primary care in Quebec. In recent years the healthcare system in Quebec has gone through massive shifts, many of which have been focused on the role of family physicians and the organization of primary care within the province. These changes reflect a new understanding of the key importance of the previously ignored entry point into our advanced and increasingly complicated healthcare system.In this issue we have sought to bring together diverse perspectives in the ongoing conversation regarding the future of primary care in Quebec. We are proud to present reviews, editorials, original research, artwork and reflections from authors including Dr. Howard Bergman, the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McGill, as well as medical and nursing students. A special thank you to Dr. Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, the Research and Graduate Program Director for the Department of Family Medicine, and Dr. Charo Rodriguez, Director of the McGill Family Medicine Educational Research Group, for contributing an editorial highlighting the importance of primary care research. The above editorials are only a subset of the many other fascinating pieces we are proud to publish in this Issue.This special issue would not have been possible without the incredible effort of the MJM 2016-2017 editorial team. Our editors, section editors, and web developers have worked incredibly hard to bring this project to fruition. As the MJM begins a third year after relaunching in 2015, we hope this Issue stands as a testament to its bright future. We hope you enjoy reading this issue, we have certainly enjoyed putting it together.Best, Lee H. Sterling, Editor-in-Chief, 2017-2018 Rachel La Selva and Shawn Zhuo, Editors-in-Chief, 2016-2017

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Relevance of Hypersexual Disorder to Family Medicine and Primary Care as a Complex Multidimensional Chronic Disease Construct

International Journal of Family Medicine ◽

10.1155/2013/519265 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-5 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Liesbeth Borgermans ◽

Bert Vrijhoef ◽

Jan Vandevoorde ◽

Jan De Maeseneer ◽

Johan Vansintejan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Chronic Disease ◽

Family Medicine ◽

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Treatment Options ◽

Hypersexual Disorder ◽

Psychosocial Consequences

Hypersexual disorder (HD) is not defined in a uniform way in the psychiatric literature. In the absence of solid evidence on prevalence, causes, empirically validated diagnostic criteria, instruments for diagnosis, consistent guidelines on treatment options, medical and psychosocial consequences, and type of caregivers that need to be involved, HD remains a controversial and relatively poorly understood chronic disease construct. The role of family medicine in the detection, treatment, and followup of HD is not well studied. The purpose of this paper is to describe the complexity of HD as a multidimensional chronic disease construct and its relevance to family medicine and primary care.

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Role of Primary Care Physician in COVID-19 Response: A Review

Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International ◽

10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i59b34370 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 207-214

Author(s):

Faisal Suliman Algaows ◽

Amro Youssef A. Elias ◽

Abdulwahab Abdulmannan M. Alshaikh ◽

Rawan Saleh Nabzah ◽

Anas Ebrahim Almejewil ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Primary Care ◽

Family Medicine ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Healthcare Providers ◽

Care Physician ◽

Clinical Consequences ◽

Tertiary Care Centers ◽

The Impact

All healthcare providers have had to adapt and be flexible in order to respond to COVID-19. Nonetheless, the emphasis, particularly at the start of the outbreak, was on the impact and response of secondary and tertiary care. The primary care sector's responsibilities in the response focused on how it could help secondary and tertiary care centers respond. A small percentage of current research and evidence focuses on health services implications or applied public health approaches, with even fewer on the role of primary care and family medicine providers. So, while our scientific understanding of the virus and its subsequent clinical consequences has grown exponentially, information about primary care responses to COVID-19 in a variety of settings, as well as the interaction with patient perspectives and priorities, and broader public health responsibilities, remains significantly hazier.

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The role of family medicine in improvising efficiency, equity and quality of primary healthcare services. Is it significant?

European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare ◽

10.5750/ejpch.v4i2.1089 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 316

Author(s):

Wan Puteh Sharifa Ezat ◽

Supasit Pannarunothai ◽

Mohd Ismail Nurul Azwa ◽

Ahmad Nurmawati

Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Family Medicine ◽

Healthcare System ◽

Primary Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Practical Consideration ◽

Primary Care System ◽

The Family

Primary care is a critical component of any healthcare system and a multiplicity of studies has demonstrated that primary care improves individual and population health outcomes. The provision of more effective and equitable healthcare to populations can be provided through an established primary care system, which is delivered and strengthened by the role of the family medicine specialist. The objective of our study is to describe the rationale for considering family medicine as an essential component of primary healthcare, to provide evidence of its efficiency, equitability and quality, with a practical consideration of its implementation by providing examples from various countries. We conclude that family medicine as an important component in any primary healthcare system and that it is vital to increasing the person-centeredness of individual and population care.

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