Fiche de renseignements : Tendances dégagées chez les médecins résidents en 3 e année de médecine familiale / Fact sheet: Trends in third year Family Medicine trainees

Introduction Physicians are educated and trained in Canada with the skills to practice in a variety of environments and geographic locations. Past studies have shown that growing up or having had postgraduate training in a rural area increases the lik ...

Home-based palliative care is increasingly dependent on interprofessional teams to deliver collaborative care that more adequately meets the needs of clients and families. The purpose of this pilot evaluation was to qualitatively explore the views of an i ...

At the end of her first year of family medicine residency, Sylvia Pillon was considering her future. She wanted advice as she considered her second-year electives and how they might relate to her career plans. Naturally, she turned to her assigned mentor, ...

Physicians do experience reactions to the deaths of their patients, although it is not a topic often talked about or researched. A quantitative and qualitative study identified that physicians early in their training and career found deaths more shocking ...

Increasingly, FPs and primary care teams are using electronic medical records (EMRs). There is growing consensus that EMRs facilitate research and epidemiologic surveillance but little evidence yet that they improve patient care or health outcomes.1 Da ...

Building an academic career in family medicine while managing a practice and a satisfying personal life can be challenging. Job sharing is a creative approach to pursuing and achieving career goals for those with substantial obligations outside of their p ...