Volume 34, Number 4, August 2007
Volume 34, No. 4, August 2007
NZFP August 2007
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CONTENTS
Meeting the Challenge
Rural health - Lessons from Scotland
Lewis Ritchie
A brief editorial on the state of family medicine in the US
Larry A Green
Australian and New Zealand medical education for rural practice
Jonathan Newbury
Medical education into the future
Steven Lillis and Ross Lawresnson
Original Scientific Papers
Changes in AUDIT scores of Auckland general practitioner patients from 1995 to 2003
Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Ross McCormick, Grant Paton-Simpson and Alistair Stewart
Identification and quantification of medication returned to Otago pharmacies
Rhiannon Braund, Yi Ching Yuen and Jane Jung
Improving Performance
Outcomes of the implementation of the Cornerstone General Practice Accreditation Programme Wellington, RNZCGP: 2007
John Wellingham and Maureen Gillon
Continuing Medical Education
Croup
Julian Vyas
Hypertension update
Stewart Mann
Assessment and management of thyroid nodules in general practice
Sarina Lim, Veronique Gibbons, John V Conaglen
POEMs: Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
Cochrane Corner: Nicotine receptor partial agonists are probably the most effective treatment to stop smoking
Bruce Arroll
Issues
Professional probity post-Fernando: A terrible beauty is born
Ian St George
Do you know your legal obligations with regard to the National Cervical Screening Programme?
Katherine A Wallis
Reflections
Diagnosis - a logical consideration of the Science of Medicine
Greig Russell
An excerpt from an interview with Dr Eric Elder by Niall Holland in September 1995
Niall Holland
Journal Review Service
Journal Review Service: Continuing Medical Education from the Goodfellow Unit