Michael Tam

Dr Michael Tam is a clinical academic Specialist General Practitioner, combining the provision of family medicine, research, health services development, and governance. Michael’s clinical interest is in the whole-person primary care of people living with mental illness. He is actively involved in mental health policy, strategy, and governance, with local, state, and national bodies. Michael’s research is in integrated care and preventive care in general practice. He has expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Most commented posts

  1. Health Check: can you treat the common cold? — 6 comments
  2. Monday’s medical myth: take an aspirin a day after you turn 50 — 3 comments
  3. Quoted in ABC Life article, “Knowing when you should call into work sick with a cold or flu” — 3 comments
  4. Monday’s medical myth: cranberry juice prevents bladder infections — 2 comments
  5. Health Check: should we aim for daily bowel movements? — 2 comments

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Morsels of Evidence

The goal of the Morsels of Evidence website is to provide Australian general practitioners regular updates that are short, sharp and immediately clinically relevant; distilled evidence from contemporaneous published articles in peer-reviewed journals. It hopes to make a practical difference for individual general practitioners, and to improve the quality of health care delivery in primary …

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The Creation of The Medicine Box

“The Creation of The Medicine Box” is a comprehensive documentation of the design, goals, development and construction of the website, The Medicine Box.  It contains a review and analysis of the state of the project after six months from its launch in April 2006. This report was in addition written and designed as a guidebook …

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The Medicine Box

The Medicine Box is a weblog containing tips, tricks and cheats for Australian junior medical officers. It was developed as a joint Professional Development Project during my general practice training along with Dr May Su. http://vitualis.wordpress.com