Recommended Reading
McWhinney, IR, Freeman, T,
A Textbook of Family Medicine, Third Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Read the short selections from the book on the following website:
http://www.uwo.ca/fammed/ian/index.htm
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Read around patients seen in the practice using the family medicine literature especially the following journals: Canadian Family Physician, American Family Physician, Family Practice, Annals of Family Medicine, and the Journal of Family Practice. All of these journals are available full text online through the Allyan and Betty Taylor Library at Western. See the Outreach Library link at http://www.lib.uwo.ca/taylor/outreach/
For students interested in a family medicine textbook, we strongly recommend Evans M (Editor):
Mosby's Family Practice Sourcebook – An Evidence-Based Approach to Care 4th edition. Toronto: Elsevier Mosby, 2006.