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An Update On The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Early Lyme Disease: "Focusing On The Bull's Eye, You May Miss The Mark", Amber Stonehouse, James S. Studdiford, C. Amber Henry
An Update On The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Early Lyme Disease: "Focusing On The Bull's Eye, You May Miss The Mark", Amber Stonehouse, James S. Studdiford, C. Amber Henry
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
To confidently diagnose and treat Lyme disease, the clinician must first understand the natural history of this disease, especially its protean early manifestations. Emergency physicians, primary care physicians, and other providers need to be vigilant in terms of the timely recognition of erythema migrans (EM), the unique marker of early localized stage 1 disease. The classic EM, originally described as a slowly expanding bull's eye lesion, is now recognized to be present in only the minority of cases (9%); the dominant morphologic lesion of EM is now recognized to be the diffusely homogenous red plaque or patch, which occurs in …
Allergic Contact Dermatitis From Tea Tree Oil
Allergic Contact Dermatitis From Tea Tree Oil
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
The sudden appearance of a pruritic confluent erythematous rash on the anterior neck and upper back prompted a 30-year-old woman to seek medical attention. She had recently started applying 5% tea tree oil to the area to treat chronic, recurrent tinea versicolor. An herbal specialist had recommended this therapy.
Predoctoral Directors: Who Are They And What Do They Do In These Trying Times?, John Gazewood, Katherine Margo, Christine Jerpbak, Sandra Burge, Thea Ballinger, Richard Usatine
Predoctoral Directors: Who Are They And What Do They Do In These Trying Times?, John Gazewood, Katherine Margo, Christine Jerpbak, Sandra Burge, Thea Ballinger, Richard Usatine
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Family medicine faces declining student interest and funding. Predoctoral directors will help lead efforts to overcome these challenges. Academic success will be important for predoctoral directors to be effective leaders in academic health centers. We therefore sought to describe predoctoral directors and factors associated with their academic success.
METHODS: We carried out a cross-sectional survey of all family medicine predoctoral directors at US allopathic medical schools using a Web-based questionnaire. The response rate was 82%. We measured academic success using a variable combining rank and tenure status. We used bivariate analysis and multiple linear regression …
Development Of A Reliable And Construct Valid Measure Of Nutritional Literacy In Adults, James J. Diamond
Development Of A Reliable And Construct Valid Measure Of Nutritional Literacy In Adults, James J. Diamond
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
NOTE: The Nutritional Literacy Scale can be found here: http://jdc.jefferson.edu/nls/1/
Background: Research into the relation of literacy to health status has not included measures of nutritional literacy. This may be a critical area in the study of chronic conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, which can both relate to obesity and nutrition. This paper details the development and psychometric characteristics of the Nutritional Literacy Scale (NLS), offered as a measure of adults' ability to comprehend nutritional information.
Methods: In order to assess the internal consistency and construct validity of the NLS, demographic data, readability statistics, NLS scores and …
Toward A Biopsychosocial Understanding Of The Patient-Physician Relationship: An Emerging Dialogue, Herbert M. Adler
Toward A Biopsychosocial Understanding Of The Patient-Physician Relationship: An Emerging Dialogue, Herbert M. Adler
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
Complexity theory has been used to view the patient-physician relationship as constituted by complex responsive processes of relating. It describes an emergent, psychosocial relational process through which patients and physicians continually and reciprocally influence each other's behavior and experience. As psychosocial responses are necessarily biopsychosocial responses, patients and physicians must likewise be influencing each other's psychobiology. This mutual influence may be subjectively experienced as empathy, and may be skillfully employed by the clinician to directly improve the patient's psychobiology.
The Interplay Of Obesity And Asthma, James Plumb, Rickie Brawer, Nancy Brisbon
The Interplay Of Obesity And Asthma, James Plumb, Rickie Brawer, Nancy Brisbon
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
The relationships, interactions, and association between obesity and asthma are complex, and are active sources of hypotheses and research. An association between obesity and asthma has been reported in many studies, although considerable debate about the existence of the association and its meaning still exists. Potential associative relationships may result from genetics, immune system modifications, and mechanical mechanisms. The rising prevalence of asthma and obesity in children and adults, and the significant morbidity from both, makes it imperative that clinicians recognize the importance of weight management in patients with and without asthma.
Family Medicine Predoctoral Education: 30-Something, Howard K. Rabinowitz
Family Medicine Predoctoral Education: 30-Something, Howard K. Rabinowitz
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
From the introduction:
The specialty of family medicine is now more than 30 years old. Fitting for its stage of life, family medicine predoctoral education has achieved appropriate maturity and parity with other core clinical departments and has assumed its role and responsibility in medical education within the academic health center. Of course, this wasn’t always true.