Elder care: The need for interprofessional collaboration between Family Physicians, Clinical Pharmacists, and Physiotherapists in home-based primary care teams.

Background: Elderly patients with pain and falls are commonly seen in family practice.

Aims: (1) Highlight the role of a physiotherapist in the primary care team; (2) Discuss the collaboration between a family physician clinical pharmacist dyad and the physiotherapist that emerged; and (3) Share practice tools that emerged from our teamwork.

Settings And Design: Home Based Primary Care Practice (a core component of family practice).

Managing mental health problems in a family and community setting: Reflections on the family physician approach and Re-imagining psychiatric education.

Family Medicine is unique in that it recognizes the central role of the patient's context and the interplay of family dynamics, social relationships, cultural background, and economics in the causation and presentation of any illness and the response to any given treatment. While this is true across the board, it is particularly true of mental health. In this article, using a selection of stories from our daily practices as family physicians, we: (1) reflect on the role of family physicians in addressing mental health needs in the community; (2) contrast between a disease-oriented (specialist approach) and a person-oriented (family physician approach); and (3) suggest a course correction to the existing model of mental health education for both generalists (such a family physicians) and specialists (such as psychiatrists).