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There has been recent passionate email discussion by members of the Australian Association for Academic Primary Care about the ‘invisibility’ of general practice research.

Despite successive 'top down' reform initiatives, healthcare in Australia continues to be conducted as a series of silos with separate control and regulatory processes, and funding streams,1 which reflects that isolated high level change is ineffective in addressing current and future challenges...

Case studyCally, 44 years of age, is a mother of three children. She is annoyed about the ‘pins and needles’ in her thumb and first three fingers of her right hand. Over the past 4 months she has needed to shake her hand when she gets up in the morning to ‘get it going’. The pins and needles used...

In August 2007, a registrar of our general practitioner training program in The Netherlands diagnosed pneumonia in a young, otherwise healthy, male patient. The registrar established that the patient was in a stable condition and had no risk factors for respiratory tract disease. After consulting...

Case historyMr HB, 69 years of age, presented with a 3 month history of progressive itchy erythematous lesions on his groin. His medical history consisted of hypertension, hyperuricemia and gastric ulcer. He also suffered from a long history of rheumatoid arthritis. Physical examination revealed...

Risk is an individual business. Some people see skydiving as safe, thrilling and enjoyable; I see it as the stuff of nightmares! What about plane versus car travel? Is it more risky driving to the airport or getting on the plane? What do the figures show? What does our gut say? Why do we have...

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AFP in Practice questions are designed to get you started in a small group learning (SGL) activity in your practice or with colleagues. Requirements to earn 40 Category 1 CPD points for a SGL activity are: minimum of four and a maximum of 10 people, minimum of 8 hours of discussion in a year, and...

Influenza A (H1N1 09) has been in Australia for 2 months and, in a world that had been preparing for a potentially dramatic outbreak due to H5 avian influenza, it has challenged global and national planning assumptions, definitions of pandemic influenza and our public health interventions. It has...