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- 3 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 270 (17), 2093-2095
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1993.03510170083036
Abstract
CLINICAL SCENARIO You are a primary care physician inspired by a recent editorial inJAMAabout lifelong learning.1You decide to use some of the time you normally take for continuing medical education conferences for "practice-based education" tailored to your own practice. You begin by setting aside 2 hours every week to read about relevant clinical problems. It is now Friday morning and you have 2 hours to spend in the hospital library. You review a one-page list of questions you have generated from the patients you've seen in the prior week. Your questions include these: What should you tell a 33-year-old woman with migraine headaches who has asked for a prescription for sumatriptan after reading a magazine article about it? Should you be screening older men in your practice for prostate cancer? What should you tell the mother of a 6-month-old boy who had a febrile seizure aboutKeywords
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