Burnout among family medicine residents: a cross-sectional nationwide study.

Background: In addition to pressures typical of other medical professions, family physicians face additional challenges such as building long-term relationships with patients, dealing with patients' social problems, and working at a high level of uncertainty. We aimed to assess the rate of burnout and factors associated with it among family medicine residents throughout Israel.

Methods: A cross sectional study based on a self-administered questionnaire.

Too Much Healthcare: The Harmful Combination of Overdiagnosis and Medical Overuse, Told and Untold Stories.

Too much healthcare is prevalent, wasteful, and harmful. It consists of two separate phenomena: overdiagnosis and overuse. Overdiagnosis is the labeling of a person with a disease or abnormal condition that would not have caused the person harm if left undiscovered.

Patient's evaluations and expectations of primary care medicine in Israel revisited after two decades - Health Service Research.

Background: The European Task Force on Patient Evaluations of General Practice's (EUROPEP) internationally-validated questionnaire measures patients' satisfaction with their primary care physicians. A study published in 1999 showed positive evaluations of primary care among patients across Europe and included 1603 Israeli patients. Major changes have taken place during the past 20 years, in Israel's society, in the healthcare system, and particularly in primary care clinics.

Comparison of antidepressant use between adult populations living in urban and rural communities in Israel.

Background: Depression and anxiety are among the most prevalent disorders in primary care. City dwelling is commonly cited as a risk factor for mental disorders, but epidemiological evidence for this relationship is inconclusive.

Objective: To compare the prevalence of antidepressant use, as a proxy for the level of depressive disorders, between patients in Israeli urban and rural communities.

Illness in context and families as teachers: a year-long project for medical students.

The authors describe a program for second-year students in Tel Aviv University's six-year medical school. The program's aim is to teach students the importance of context and interactions in patient care by exposing them to a real patient-family-doctor interaction using narrative-based methods to encourage reflective learning. Each student meets five times a year with a volunteer family, one of whose members suffers from a chronic disease.