FOR PHYSICIANS/NURSE PRACTITIONERS/RESIDENTS/MEDICAL STUDENTS:
Coming in 2026!
Practical Primary Care - published by Springer Nature (2026)
Not your typical medical textbook, Practical Primary Care is meant to be more like a thoughtful non-fiction book—engaging, practical, and designed to help you with every patient encounter in some way. This book blends evidence-based strategies with real-world advice to support patients, improve practice efficiency, and rediscover the joy of family medicine.
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Table of Contents
Section I: Change Management Strategies
1. Quality Improvement for Your Office
2. Motivating Change in Patients
Section II: Practice Management Strategies
3. Advanced Access Scheduling
4. Optimizing the Use of Electronic Medical Records
Section III: Patient Management Strategies
5. Diet
6. Exercise and Activity
7. Sleep
8. Smoking Cessation
9. Positive Psychology
Section IV: Clinician Management Strategies
10. Critical Thinking and the Evaluation of Health Interventions
11. Appropriate Screening and Testing
12. Vaccine Promotion
Other Helpful Links & Resources
General
Choosing Wisely: Site to help foster conversation around unnecessary tests and treatments
Deprescribing
Medstopper: Tool to help prioritize desprescribing of medications
evidence-based reviews
Cochrane Database: Leading resource for systematic reviews in health care
CFPCLearn: Peer-reviewed practical articles based on the best evidence, free from industry bias, and eligible for CME Credits
Science Based Medicine: Site dedicated to evaluating medical treatments and products of interest to the public in a scientific light.
Risk Calculators:
PEER Decision Aid: User- and patient-friendly tool to help with shared decision-making around CV risk
Stroke and A. Fib: Shared decision-making tool around atrial fibrillation, stroke risk, and anti-coagulation
Osteoporosis: Shared decision-making tool around fracture risk – from Mayo Clinic
FRAX Calculator: Tool to help calculate fracture risk
Kidney Failure Risk Equation: Tool to calculate risk of progression of kidney disease and when to refer to nephrology.
Screening
Canadian Screening Guidelines: Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health
American Screening Guidelines: US Preventive Services Task Force