Brief intervention to improve diagnosis and treatment knowledge of skin disorders by family medicine residents.

Background And Objectives: Family medicine residents encounter and treat a significant number of skin diseases. It is important for them to make correct diagnostic and treatment decisions for these diseases. Our study was done to assess residents' competence in diagnosing and treating skin disorders before and after a brief educational intervention.

Estimating impacts on safety caused by the introduction of electronic medical records in primary care.

Context: Primary care is a highly complex environment in which multiple safety problems have been identified. Each primary care practice can be viewed as a complex adaptive system with its own unique characteristics. The introduction of an electronic medical record (EMR) into such a system represents a significant perturbation that can have multiple unpredictable effects.