This is the abstract to conclude my summer internship in The Family Medicine and Community Health department

1. Internship Abstract
Title: A Literature Review on Swanson’s Family Medicine
Name: Ebunoluwa Osuntuyi
Preceptors: Alfred Tallia, MD, MPH,Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health,
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Project Supervisor: Dorna Edwards, Program Coordinator
Agency: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Family
Medicine and Community Health
Purpose: To update the literature review sources in order to contribute to the ninth Edition of Swanson’s
Family Medicine Review.
Significance: Swanson'sFamily Medicine Review efficiently summarizes all the latest updates in primary
care and family medicine practice. This is a preparatory review book for residents preparing for the
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) exam. This review book allows family physicians to stay
up-to-date in the area of treatment and management with enhanced discussions throughout the text. The
Family Medicine Review book is updated every three years; new advancements and medicines are added
to the new edition. The goal of the literature review search is to provide up-to-date medical information to
the end of each chapter,and find ways to improve the new edition.
Method/Approach: A plethora of search engines were used to conduct the literature reviews. Some of
which were:ANNALS of Internal Medicine, Journal of Family Practice,American Academy of Family
Physicians, Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Cochrane Library, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, The New England Journal of Medicine, etc. The review articles found were dated
from 2016 to current 2019. According to relevance to the topic discussed in that specific chapter, each
article was individually reviewed for management, treatments,and preventions. Articles that were not
significant or relevant were discarded.
Outcomes/Results: A totalof 100 review articles were identified from Geriatric and Adult Medicine.
After the articles were reviewed for relevance,80 full text article reviews were selected. Of the 80
articles, 10 were excluded because they were not generalizable for the entire geriatric or adult population.
The five areas of criteria were:causation, prevention, management, generalization, and new treatments.
Evaluation/Conclusion: The ninth Edition of Swanson'sFamily Medicine Review will include a new
chapter section titled Hospital Medicine. This is due to new developments in technologies and treatments.
As family medicine continues to expand with the always advancing medical field, Swanson's Family
Medicine Review will continue to implement new content. After looking through over 100 article reviews,
the success of this project was the specific five areas of criteria mentioned in the outcomes/results above.
For future evaluations, specific criteria should be used, also the review articles should be dated from the
previous five years because many treatments,preventions, and causations were still the same.