An Approach to Maternity Care Education for Canadian Family Medicine Residents
A Discussion paper of the Maternity and Newborn Care Committee |
Evaluation Objectives in Family Medicine: Defining Competence for the Purposes of Certification by the College
The evaluation objectives including topics and key features presented here will guide the College’s Committee on Examinations in the development of the test items for the Certification Examination in Family Medicine. They serve to ensure that the examination maintains acceptable validity and reliability. To do this the evaluation objectives have been designed to clearly describe the domain of competence to be tested within each topic area. |
Standards for Accreditation of Residency Training Programs: Family Medicine; Emergency Medicine; Enhanced Skills; Palliative Medicine (The Red Book)
This document outlines the standards used by the CFPC to accredit family medicine, emergency medicine, and enhanced skills residency programs based in departments of family medicine at Canadian university faculties of medicine. |
Family Medicine Bioethics Curriculum
This downloadable resource material is intended to facilitate ethics education in family medicine training programs and may be used: by teachers or learners in small group discussions or in formal teaching sessionsin whole or in part. |
Postgraduate Education for Rural Family Practice - Vision and Recommendations for the New Millennium
Developed by the Working Group on Rural Education, 1998, this resource material outlines an appropriate curriculum to prepare new family physicians for the challenges of rural practice. |
Core Emergency Medicine Training in Family Medicine Residency Programs
This educational guide and resource document supports family medicine residency programs in delivering comprehensive exposure to emergency medicine for family medicine residents. It also includes learning objectives, strategies and other learning resources. |
Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine Residency Programs (PDF 361 KB)
This educational resource provides teachers and residents in Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine residency programs with a comprehensive and simple-to-use set of teaching tools. The tools reflect the work and commitment of FM/EM educators in Canada to provide training that is consistent with the philosophy and vision of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) in this domain. Updated February 2009 |
Recommendations from the CFPC Working Group on Undergraduate Education
Developed by the CFPC Working Group on Undergraduate Education (chaired by Risa Freeman), these recommendations outline effective strategies for promoting family medicine at several levels. |
The Present and Promise of Family Medicine in Undergraduate Education: Generalist Foundations (PDF 916 KB)
This resource document developed by the family medicine undergraduate directors and edited by Robert Woollard, reviews the role of family medicine in the undergraduate curriculum and explores a framework to support family medicine in the future. |
Social Accountability - A Vision for Canadian Medical Schools (Health Canada)
Learn more about the vision for the roles of Canadian medical schools to respond to the needs of their community in this 2002 resource developed by Health Canada in collaboration with the Association of Medical Faculties of Canada. |
The Postgraduate Family Medicine Curriculum: An Integrated Approach (PDF 1.9 MB)
Developed by a working group chaired by Gary Beazley, this document outlines a new framework for horizontal curriculum in family medicine education. Defining core procedure skills for Canadian family medicine training
The CFPC commissioned a Working Group on Procedural Skills to create a core and enhanced list of skills to guide residents’ training. This is the first list generated from suggestions of family physicians in practice. |