Journal of General Internal Medicine

Teaching cardiac examination skills

Christopher A. Smith, Avery S. Hart, Laura S. Sadowski, Janet Riddle, Arthur T. Evans, Peter M. Clarke, Pamela S. Ganschow, Ellen Mason, Winston Sequeira, Yue Wang

Impact of instructional practices on student satisfaction with attendings’ teaching in the inpatient component of internal medicine clerkships

Cassandra M. Guarino, Clifford Y. Ko, Laurence C. Baker, David J. Klein, Elaine S. Quiter, José J. Escarce

Measuring patients’ experiences with individual primary care physicians

Dana Gelb Safran, Melinda Karp, Kathryn Coltin, Hong Chang, Angela Li, John Ogren, William H. Rogers

Randomized controlled trial of an informatics-based intervention to increase statin prescription for secondary prevention of coronary disease

William T. Lester, Richard W. Grant, G. Octo Barnett, Henry C. Chueh

Call for membership committee members

Prevalence of depression in survivors of acute myocardial infarction

Brett D. Thombs, Eric B. Bass, Daniel E. Ford, Kerry J. Stewart, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Udita Patel, James A. Fauerbach, David E. Bush, Roy C. Ziegelstein

Medical patients’ attitudes toward emotional problems and their treatment

Bernd Löwe, Ute Schulz, Kerstin Gräfe, Stefanie Wilke

Thinking of applying for a K24 grant?

Screening, assessment, and management of depression in VA primary care clinics

David W. Oslin, Jennifer Ross, Steve Sayers, John Murphy, Vince Kane, Ira R. Katz

Uncovering frustrations

Craig E. Tanner, Elizabeth Eckstrom, Sima S. Desai, Carol L. Joseph, Marnie R. Ririe, Judith L. Bowen

Men’s theories about benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer following a benign prostatic hyperplasia decision aid

Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Chrystal Price, David R. Rovner, Karen Kelly-Blake, Janet Lillie, Celia Wills, Vence L. Bonham Jr.

Brief report: Factors associated with depression among homeless and marginally housed HIV-infected men in San Francisco

Sheri D. Weiser, Elise D. Riley, Kathleen Ragland, Gwendolyn Hammer, Richard Clark, David R. Bangsberg

Brief report: Utility of a short screening scale for DSM-IV PTSD in primary care

Rachel Kimerling, Paige Ouimette, Annabel Prins, Patrick Nisco, Casey Lawler, Ruth Cronkite, Rudolf H. Moos

Brief report: Housestaff adherence to cervical cancer screening recommendations

Joseph S. Ross, Beverly A. Forsyth, Julie R. Rosenbaum

Housing instability and food insecurity as barriers to health care among low-income americans

Margot B. Kushel, Reena Gupta, Lauren Gee, Jennifer S. Haas

Neuropsychological predictors of decision-making capacity over 9 months in mild-to-moderate dementia

Jennifer Moye, Michele J. Karel, Ronald J. Gurrera, Armin R. Azar

Preventing diabetes in the clinical setting

Deborah L. Burnet, Lorrie D. Elliott, Michael T. Quinn, Andrea J. Plaut, Mindy A. Schwartz, Marshall H. Chin

A language problem

Mitchell Charap

If I was going to die

William T. Branch Jr., Alexia Torke

Swimming upstream

Arlene S. Bierman, James R. Dunn

Comments on rangel et al., “Racial and ethnic disparities in influenza vaccination-”

Alicia Appel, Philip S. Mehler

Using videotaped vignettes to teach medical students to perform the neurologic examination

Erle C. H. Lim, Benjamin K. C. Ong, Raymond C. S. Seet

The corporate co-author, the ghost writer, and the medical society: An object lesson (June, 2005 issue)

Robert L. Goodman, Olveen Carrasquillo

Response to “interactions between pharmaceutical representatives and doctors in training: A thematic review”

Leana S. Wen, Christopher McCoy, Daniella A. Zipkin, Michael A. Steinman

Comments on thavendiranathan et al. do blood tests cause anemia in hospitalized patients?

Norman A. Desbiens, Dinesh Thavendirnathan, Akshay Bagai, Allan S. Detsky, Niteesh K. Choudhry

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