Canadian family physician Médecin de famille canadien
-
Medical schools aim to integrate the values of generalism into their undergraduate programs. However, currently no program has been described to measure the degree to which formal curricular materials represent generalist principles. ⋯ This is the first report of a successful evidence-informed program to assess the degree of generalism reflected in undergraduate medical education curricular documents. This program can be used by other institutions wishing to review their curricula through a generalist lens.
-
To determine the proportion of patients with neuropathic pain who achieve a clinically meaningful improvement in their pain with the use of different pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments. ⋯ There is moderate certainty of evidence that anticonvulsant medications and SNRIs provide a clinically meaningful reduction in pain in those with neuropathic pain, with lower certainty of evidence for rubefacients and opioids, and very low certainty of evidence for TCAs. Owing to low-quality evidence for many interventions, future high-quality trials that report responder analyses will be important to strengthen understanding of the relative benefits and harms of treatments in patients with neuropathic pain.