The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners

NZFP October 2001

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CONTENTS

Continuous Professional Development

PACman and Mrs MOPS - a challenge to educational orthodoxy
Ian St George

Continuing Professional Development or Compulsory Re-accreditation
Rodger Charlton

Maintaining professional standards
Earl V Dunn

Opinion and Comment

Editorial - the maintenance of professional competence - let's use the necessity to emphasise the virtues
Campbell Murdoch

Readers Write

Outlook - Aiming for Excellence:The outcome
News and Events from the RNZCGP

Swamprat

Explaining suffering and healing: A comparison of Pentecostal and secular general practitioners
Chrystal Jaye

Deprivation profiles in Wellington IPA practices
Tom Love and Peter Crampton

Does follow-up telepone support encourage general practioners to continue using an alcohol screening and brief intervention programme
Ross McCormick, Grant R Paton-Simpson, Ann Powell, Peter Adams and Dean Bunbury

Continuing Medical Education

Update on barium x-ray examinations of the gastro-intestinal tract
Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Stephen Wood,Dennis Kerins

Osteoporosis Case Studies, 95-97
PreMeC

Skin Diseases that affect the mouth
Martin M Ferguson

Cochrane Corner: Does combining inhaled ipratropium bromide with beta2-agonists for initial treatment of acute asthma in children result in improved outcomes?
Bruce Arroll

Issues

Keystone III
Tony Townsend

Journal Review Service

Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit