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InnovAiT 2008 1(7):468-469; doi:10.1093/innovait/inn083
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Visiting the College library is always a treat and an opportunity to look at the many worldwide family medicine journals. The Australian Family Physician introduced me to some new acronyms and I am sure the Australian College is getting to grips with our many nMRCGP acronyms. For Associates in Training, there is an Education section of the journal entitled: ‘AFP in Practice’ where AFP stands for the Australian Family Physician. This section is designed to promote small group learning. The activity relates to a paper that has appeared in the journal and, for example, ‘Discuss which children have challenged you professionally and ways of managing them for both the health professional and the patient’. (Further details appear online: www.racgp.org.au/afpinpractice.) Another paper of interest is: ‘Lessons from the TAPS study’. TAPS is the ‘Threats to Australian Patient Safety’ and a collection of 648 anonymous reports of events that GPs . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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