Journal of Family Practice

MDedge Family Medicine is the source for timely, relevant, evidence-based, practice-changing information for family physicians. Readily accessible, interactive formats make MDedge Family Medicine the best way for busy specialists to stay up to date and gain the perspectives they need to advance personal development and provide state-of-the-art care that improves patient outcomes. MDedge Family Medicine brings together the very best content from two trusted family medicine publications, Family Practice News and The Journal of Family Practice on a single platform. The site integrates comprehensive daily news, conference coverage, and insightful commentary with original research and applied evidence articles. Users can quickly navigate to the content that most interests them via intuitive categorization. Robust multimedia content includes MDedge Daily News and audiocasts from Doug Campos-Outcalt, MD, MPA, author of the monthly Practice Alert column in The Journal of Family Practice. Videos include expert insights on the latest news and clinical advances reported at clinical conferences. Readers can test their skills via the "Photo Rounds Friday" and "Residents’ Rapid Review" quizzes. New features produced in collaboration include The Business of Medicine section, which explains how the latest health policy, payment, and practice management issues impact clinical practice. CME, quizzes, polls and much more round out an ever-evolving online experience driven by feedback from our readers and physician advisory boards. Look to MDedge Family Medicine to keep current in all aspects of prevention, treatment, symptom management, and patient care. The Journal of Family Practice, now in its 45th year as a print publication, and Family Practice News, now in its 48th year as a print publication, are published monthly and reach over 95,000 MDs and DOs in family medicine and general practice, as well as residents in family medicine and educators and researchers within the family medicine specialty. The Journal of Family Practice is indexed in the following: Index Medicus, Current Contents (Clinical Medicine), Science Citation Index, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. The journal is also available in microform from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich.