Background Contemporary approaches to rural generalist medicine training and models of
care are developing internationally as part of an integrated response to common challenges …

Methods Working from a master list of procedures, the group, which consisted of 21 family
medicine educators, used a multi-voting process to identify advanced procedures within the …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Mismatch between program directors' expectations of
medical school graduates and the experience of students in medical school has important …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Family medicine clinicians and residents have
increasing educational and work demands that have made it difficult to provide and access …

Abstract Background and Objectives: Incoming family medicine (FM) residents start
residency with different levels of procedural training. Understanding their baseline skill level …

Background A discordance exists between the proportion of Canadian family physicians that
we expect should be able to perform minor office procedures and the actual provision of …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To determine if participation in a procedural skills workshop during
family practice residency affects future use of these skills in postgraduate clinical practice …

Materials and Methods A cross sectional study design was chosen. The questionnaire
aimed to quantify the number and different types of injections performed by PCPs; to …

Background: Graduates of US allopathic and international medical schools comprise the
majority of physicians who began family medicine residency in July 2011. Different …

Performance of procedures is an integral part of any family physician/general practitioner's
practice. Unfortunately, discrepancy occurs between the existing theoretical methods of …