The Impact of Social Vulnerability on Alcohol Consumption and Mortality: A 20-year Age, Sex-stratified Analysis from the Taiwan Longitudinal Study of Aging.

Objective: This study aimed to use the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to encapsulate the complex and multidimensional nature of social determinants and their influence on alcohol intake and mortality in middle-aged and older individuals.

Design: Cohort study.

Setting And Participants: Data were obtained from the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (TLSA), with 3945 study participants aged 50 years and older.

ChatGPT failed Taiwan's Family Medicine Board Exam.

Background: Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT), OpenAI Limited Partnership, San Francisco, CA, USA is an artificial intelligence language model gaining popularity because of its large database and ability to interpret and respond to various queries. Although it has been tested by researchers in different fields, its performance varies depending on the domain. We aimed to further test its ability in the medical field.

Choices of Specialties and Training Sites among Taiwanese Physicians Graduating from Polish Medical Schools.

Taiwanese students who graduated from Polish medical schools (P-IMGs) accounted for the second-largest group of international medical graduates in Taiwan. In 2009, domestic medical students in Taiwan staged mass demonstrations against P-IMG's exemption from the qualifying test before the licensing exam. Although medical circles in Taiwan might still hold prejudices against P-IMGs, little is known about their career development.

The element of family medicine in the mega journal of the family medicine specialty: A bibliometric analysis of the journal, Chinese General Practice.

Background: With the evolving specialization of modern medicine, family medicine (FM), also known as general practice, is relatively late in being recognized as a formal specialty in most countries of the world. Because many non-FM specialists were recruited into the new specialty in the early stages of FM specialization, the contents of FM specialty journals might, to an extent, reflect the development of the FM specialization.

Methods: In this study, the voluminous journal, Chinese General Practice, which is regarded as the most representative specialty journal, was chosen and analyzed to illustrate the current situation of FM in China.