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General medicine

Health reform

When big isn’t beautiful: lessons from England and Scotland on primary health care organisations

James A Dunbar

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 219-221 Free

Health care delivery

Ram’s horn nails

Nicola Mumoli

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 202

Preventive health

General practice and preventive health care: a view through the eyes of community members

Danielle Mazza, Lyndel K Shand, Narelle Warren, Helen Keleher, Colette J Browning and Emma J Bruce

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 180-183 Free

Education and research

In-practice and distance consultant on-call general practitioner supervisors for Australian general practice?

Susan M Wearne

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 224-228 Free

Health care delivery

Increased bulk-billing for general practice consultations in regional and remote areas, 2002–2008

Xenia Dolja-Gore, Julie E Byles, Deborah J Loxton, Richard L Hockey and Annette J Dobson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 203-204

Health care delivery

The Refugee Health Network of Australia: towards national collaboration on health care for refugees

Christine B Phillips, Mitchell M Smith, Margaret Kay and Sue Casey

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 185-186

In Clinical Practice

Predictors of accuracy of diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in general practice

Nicholas A Zwar, Guy B Marks, Oshana Hermiz, Sandy Middleton, Elizabeth J Comino, Iqbal Hasan, Sanjyot Vagholkar and Stephen F Wilson

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 168-171 Free

Education and research

NHMRC funding for primary health care research, 2000–2008

Ellen L McIntyre, Danielle Mazza and Naomi P Harris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 230

Health care delivery

The general practitioner’s role in providing mental health services to Australians, 1997 and 2007: findings from the national surveys of mental health and wellbeing

Ruth A Parslow, Virginia Lewis and Geraldine Marsh

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 205-209 Free

Health care delivery

Access to primary health care services by community-based asylum seekers

Erin A Spike, Mitchell M Smith and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 188-191 Free

In Clinical Practice

Australian dispensing doctors’ prescribing: quantitative and qualitative analysis

David Lim, Jon D Emery, Janice Lewis and V Bruce Sunderland

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 172-175 Free

Education and research

Teaching and patient payment

Nancy J Sturman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 231

Health care delivery

How generalisable are results of studies conducted in practice-based research networks? A cross-sectional study of general practitioner demographics in two New South Wales networks

Parker J Magin, Melanie J Marshall, Susan M Goode, Georgina L Cotter, C Dimity Pond and Nicholas A Zwar

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 210-213 Free

Health care delivery

Sex of the GP — 20 years on

Christopher M Harrison, Helena C Britt and Janice Charles

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 192-196 Free

In Clinical Practice

Taking a stab

Ron Elisha

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (4): 177-178

Notable cases

Herpes simplex encephalitis presenting after steroid treatment of panuveitis

K Nadia Wittles, Lucy A Goold and Jagjit S Gilhotra

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 87-88 Free

Letters

Why are women referred for female genital cosmetic surgery?

Rebecca Deans, Lih-Mei Liao, Naomi S Crouch and Sarah M Creighton

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 99

Viewpoint

What does the future hold for general medicine?

Paul F Jenkins, Campbell H Thompson and Alasdair B MacDonald

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 49-50 Free

Viewpoint

Social media and the medical profession

Sarah J Mansfield, Stewart G Morrison, Hugh O Stephens, Michael A Bonning, Sheng-Hui Wang, Aaron H J Withers, Rob C Olver and Andrew W Perry

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 642-644 Free

Poem

Off call

Robert F Grace

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 657

Letters

How accurate are hospital scales?

Rimma Goldberg and Geoffrey Hebbard

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 665

Supplement

Family medicine training — the international experience

Richard G Roberts, Vincent R Hunt, Teresa I Kulie, Wesley Schmidt, Julie M Schirmer, Tiago Villanueva and C Ruth Wilson

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): S84 Free

Medicine and the community

A national survey of general practitioners’ experiences of patient-initiated aggression in Australia

Laura E Forrest, Pushpani M Herath, Ian S McRae and Rhian M Parker

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): 605-608 Free

Supplement

The evolution of general practice training in Australia

Stephen C Trumble

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): S59 Free

Supplement

Strategic approaches to the development of Australia’s future primary care workforce

Mark F Harris, Nicholas A Zwar, Christine F Walker and Sabina M Knight

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (11): S88 Free