Top 10 differential diagnoses in family medicine: Edema

Thank you very much for your feedback.

The Top Ten series has been distributed in booklet form to all our residents in family medicine at the University of Ottawa. I am currently in the process of making minor revisions and printing out another batch for our incoming residents. Unfortunately, we do not have the budget for wider distribution yet; however, we may consider individual requests.

My long term plan is to create a Top Ten series in topics relevant to family doctors and hopefully that would gather enough interest amongst national publishers. I am currently working on a teaching tool entitled Top Ten Forgotten Diagnostic Procedures, which reminds us the importance of easy but increasingly unpopular office procedures such as pneumatic otoscopy and microscopy. I also think it would be exciting to follow that with a series on therapeutic procedures which could include everything from otolith repositioning to basic surgical techniques.