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As a primary care specialist, you know how difficult it is to keep up to date in this fast-paced area of medicine. Key articles that can affect your day-to-day practice appear not only in the traditional primary care journals, but also in almost every major medical periodical. For any one individual to systematically review this vast array of medical literature is impossible -- impossible, that is, unless you're a Primary Care Medical Abstracts subscriber. As a subscriber, every month you'll receive... A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF PRIMARY CARE ARTICLES Each month the Primary Care Medical Abstracts team surveys over 600 journals and provides you with a detailed listing of every article found relevant to primary care. This list can be quickly and easily scanned or computer-searched for articles in which you may have a particular interest.  DETAILED, FACT-FILLED ABSTRACTS CONCERNING KEY PRIMARY CARE PAPERS From this list of more than 500 primary care citations, approximately 35 of the articles felt by our Medical Editors to be the most important, most timely and most useful are chosen to be abstracted. The articles are selected only from authoritative, major journals and the abstracts are carefully written emphasizing the information most applicable to your practice. The abstracts are available on study cards and via the internet.  EXPANDED INTERNET ACCESS TO Each abstract provides information regarding the availability of free reprints (when made available by the author), the author's e-mail address and, now, the PubMed article ID number along with a link to facilitate access to original articles.  LONGER -- NOW A TWO-HOUR REVIEW OF THE ABSTRACTS WITH COMMENTARY To reinforce and concisely summarize the information in the abstracts, and to allow for editorial commentary, we've engaged some of the brightest, articulate and opinionated authorities in Primary Care -- Jerry Hoffman, Rick Bukata, Henry Barry, Gary Ferenchick, Steve Brown, Cynthia Kegowicz and others -- to put the information in the abstracts into context and provide you with bottom-line take-home points that you can incorporate into your practice. You can access the commentary via video and audio on the internet or via CD and keyword search of the abstracts on the internet.  NEW -- INTERVIEWS WITH AUTHORS On articles of particular interest you'll hear interviews directly with the authors of the papers. You will get their insights and commentary regarding the contribution of their paper to the understanding of key issues in Primary Care.  COMPREHENSIVE MONTHLY ESSAYS Each month you'll also receive a four-page "Primary Care Essay." These concise, fact-filled essays provide authoritative reviews on specific topics relevant to primary care and emphasize the latest developments in assessment and treatment. Additional topics include health care systems and policy issues. All essays are internet-searchable and written by a variety of top authors.  BONUS 30-MINUTE LECTURE FROM ONE OF OUR PRIOR CME COURSES With each issue you'll also receive a 30-minute audio presentation from one of our recent evidence-based courses. These courses, which have been attended by over 30,000 physicians, focus on the new and controversial and integrate the current literature along with the clinical expertise of the faculty. The lectures are accompanied by a downloadable PDF containing the pertinent chapter from the course manual.  NOW INCLUDED AT NO EXTRA CHARGE -- OPTIONAL 48-HOUR CME PROGRAM To provide recognition for the time and effort involved in reviewing the abstracts and essays, and for the information you will have gained, a no-cost CME program is provided. The program is sponsored by the Department of Family Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Now you can receive AMA Category I CME credit in the comfort of your home or office while keeping up-to-date with the latest information in primary care.  SPECIAL BONUS-- COMPLETE INTERNET ACCESS TO THE FULL PCMA DATABASE AVAILABLE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS - AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE Subscribers to either version of Primary Care Medical Abstracts now have internet access to the complete PCMA database dating back to 1992, providing the ability to rapidly retrieve and review more than 8,500 abstracts, 130,000 nonabstracted citations and over 200 essays. This invaluable database of key primary care information is provided at no extra charge to PCMA subscribers 
Since 1992 Primary Care Medical Abstracts has been the database for front-line, primary care providers. Put the PCMA team to work for you. Let us save you hours of work each month while providing you with the most comprehensive information source in primary care. Enjoy the peace of mind of knowing that you'll be kept up-to-date efficiently and enjoyably when you subscribe to Primary Care Medical Abstracts.
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