Practice patterns of graduates of 2- and 3-year family medicine programs: in Ontario, 1996 to 2004.

Objective: To compare patterns of practice between graduates of core 2-year family medicine (FM) training programs and those completing an additional postgraduate year (PGY3) of training.

Design: Retrospective cohort study using administrative data from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.

Setting: Ontario.

Resident and program director perspectives on third-year family medicine programs.

Objective: To determine the views of family medicine (FM) program directors, third-year program coordinators, and residents on the factors affecting demand and allocation of postgraduate year 3 (PGY3) positions and the effects of these programs on the professional activities of program graduates.

Design: Cross-sectional surveys and key informant interviews.

Setting: Ontario (FM residents) and across Canada (program directors) in 2006.

Mantle skewness and ridge segmentation.

Mantle upwelling is generally assumed to be symmetric. Toomey et al. observe low seismic-wave velocity in off-axis mantle, and suggest that mantle upwelling is skewed, which has important implications for asthenospheric flow, ridge segmentation, crustal accretion, and volcanic, tectonic and hydrothermal vent activities along the ridge axis.

Health effects of anthrax vaccination in the Canadian forces.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether anthrax vaccine resulted in adverse health effects in Canadian Forces members 8 months after vaccination.

Methods: A quasi-experimental, retrospective chart review was undertaken for two groups within the Canadian Forces, one group that received anthrax vaccination and another that did not. Information on symptoms, diagnoses, and injuries for 848 persons for which there were approximately 35,000 chart entries was abstracted from charts over a 4.

Differences in the lipolytic function of adipose tissue preparations from Black American and Caucasian women.

The purpose of this study was to determine the potential causes of the lower lipolytic rates in obese Black American women compared to obese Caucasian women. Subcutaneous and omental adipose tissue were obtained from subjects during abdominal surgery, and hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) mass, mRNA, and activity were determined. HSL mRNA levels did not differ between the Black American and Caucasian women in either subcutaneous or omental adipose tissue.