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Nicola Gregson; Cathy Randle-Phillips; Sal Hillman – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Primary care health checks, screenings and GP consultations are often the gateway for people with intellectual disabilities to access their physical and mental healthcare. For a population who experience greater levels of health difficulties alongside significant health inequality, improving care quality and access is of major importance. This…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Medical Services, Family Practice (Medicine), Primary Health Care
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Savard, Isabelle; Côté, Luc; Kadhi, Abdelhamid; Simard, Caroline; Rheault, Christian; Lacasse, Miriam – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
In recent decades, a number of training environments have moved toward program approaches targeting the development of competencies. Because of their complexity, monitoring the development of those competencies is a considerable challenge. Our hypothesis is that a computerized system could help overcome this challenge if it is well accepted by its…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Competency Based Education, Graduate Medical Education, Medical Students
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Asfour, Sara; Grad, Roland; Luctkar-Flude, Marian – Education for Information, 2020
The cancer survival rate has increased and family physicians (FPs) follow cancer survivors who experience long-term problems. Clinical practice guidelines outline best practices in cancer survivor care, but most FPs are unaware of this information. Little is known about specific barriers to survivorship guideline implementation in primary health…
Descriptors: Barriers, Guidelines, Cancer, Physicians
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Grad, Roland; Leger, Daniel; Kaczorowski, Janusz; Schuster, Tibor; Adler, Samara; Aman, Marya; Archibald, Douglas; Beaulieu, Marie-Claude; Chmelicek, John; Cornelissen, Evelyn; Delleman, Bethany; Hadj-Mimoune, Sonia; Horvey, Samantha; Macaluso, Steven; Mintsioulis, Stephen; Murdoch, Stuart; Ng, Brian; Papineau, Alain; Rangwala, Sohil; Rousseau, Mathieu; Rudkin, Teresa; Schabort, Inge; Schultz, Karen; Snow, Pamela; Wong, Eric; Wu, Pearson; Brailovsky, Carlos – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
Spaced education is a learning strategy to improve knowledge acquisition and retention. To date, no robust evidence exists to support the utility of spaced education in the Family Medicine residency. We aimed to test whether alerts to encourage spaced education can improve clinical knowledge as measured by scores on the Canadian Family Medicine…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Family Practice (Medicine)
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Breau, Genevieve; Baumbusch, Jennifer; Thorne, Sally; Hislop, T. Greg; Kazanjian, Arminee – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Primary care providers are the main point of contact with the healthcare system for individuals with intellectual disability, and they may have pre-existing attitudes towards this group that impacts care. We examined whether participants' gender, age, professional status and experience with individuals with intellectual disability were associated…
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Allied Health Personnel, Physicians, Medical Students
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el-Guebaly, Nady; Crockford, David; Cirone, Sharon; Kahan, Meldon – Substance Abuse, 2011
In Canada, the qualification of physicians is the jurisdiction of the College of Family Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Colleges have promoted the training of "generalists" in family medicine and "sophisticated generalists" among the traditional specialties, and the development of subspecialties…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Substance Abuse, Physicians, Psychiatry
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Dormuth, Colin R.; Carney, Greg; Taylor, Suzanne; Bassett, Ken; Maclure, Malcolm – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
Introduction: Knowledge translation (KT) initiatives have the potential to improve prescribing quality and produce savings that exceed the cost of the KT program itself, including the cost of evaluation using pragmatic study methods. Our objective was to measure the impact and estimated savings resulting from the distribution of individualized…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
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Dixon, David; Takhar, Jatinder; Macnab, Jennifer; Eadie, Jason; Lockyer, Jocelyn; Stenerson, Heather; Francois, Jose; Bell, Mary; Monette, Celine; Campbell, Craig; Marlow, Bernie – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Introduction: There has been a surge of interest in the area of bias in industry-supported continuing medical education/continuing professional development (CME/CPD) activities. In 2007, we published our first study on measuring bias in CME, demonstrating that our assessment tool was valid and reliable. In light of the increasing interest in this…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Physicians, Interrater Reliability, Quality Control
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Sargeant, Joan; MacLeod, Tanya; Sinclair, Douglas; Power, Mary – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Introduction: The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and Nova Scotia (CPSNS) use a standardized multisource feedback program, the Physician Achievement Review (PAR/NSPAR), to provide physicians with performance assessment data via questionnaires from medical colleagues, coworkers, and patients on 5 practice domains: consultation…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Physicians, Performance Based Assessment, Focus Groups
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Goulet, Francois; Jacques, Andre; Gagnon, Robert; Charlin, Bernard; Shabah, Abdo – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2010
Introduction: Evaluation of poorly performing physicians is a worldwide concern for licensing bodies. The College des Medecins du Quebec currently assesses the clinical competence of physicians previously identified with potential clinical competence difficulties through a day-long procedure called the Structured Oral Interview (SOI). Two peer…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Evaluators, Physicians, Family Practice (Medicine)
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Klein, Douglas; Allan, G. Michael; Manca, Donna; Sargeant, Joan; Barnett, Carly – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2009
Introduction: Considerable time and money are invested in continuing medical education (CME) for family physicians (FPs) but the effectiveness is uncertain. The participation of FPs as coordinators and teachers is not well known. The goal of this project was to describe the role of FPs in organizing and teaching CME events that are accredited for…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Professional Continuing Education, Family Practice (Medicine), Physicians
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Lockyer, Jocelyn; Wycliffe-Jones, Keith; Raman, Maitreyi; Sandhu, Amonpreet; Fidler, Herta – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Introduction: Physicians undertake many transitions during the course of a medical career. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of physicians who moved to a new community. Methods: A semistructured interview format was used to explore transitional experiences, including reasons for moving; the role of colleagues, learning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Internal Medicine, Family Practice (Medicine)
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Sargeant, Joan; Mann, Karen; Sinclair, Douglas; Van der Vleuten, Cees; Metsemakers, Job – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Introduction: Receiving negative performance feedback can elicit negative emotional reactions which can interfere with feedback acceptance and use. This study investigated emotional responses of family physicians' participating in a multi-source feedback (MSF) program, sources of these emotions, and their influence upon feedback acceptance and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Emotional Response, Physicians, Family Practice (Medicine)
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Murray, Suzanne; Silver, Ivan; Patel, Dilip; Dupuis, Martin; Hayes, Sean M.; Davis, Dave – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2008
Introduction: Governments and healthcare organizations in Canada are reforming the clinical practice structures and policies to deliver primary care to the population. A key component of primary healthcare reform is the establishment of an interdisciplinary, community-based team approach to patient care. This study was undertaken to provide…
Descriptors: Physicians, Focus Groups, Family Practice (Medicine), Foreign Countries
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Langlois, Jean; Wells, George A.; Lecourtois, Marc; Bergeron, Germain; Yetisir, Elizabeth; Martin, Marcel – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2009
A concern on the level of anatomy knowledge reached after a problem-based learning curriculum has been documented in the literature. Spatial anatomy, arguably the highest level in anatomy knowledge, has been related to spatial abilities. Our first objective was to test the hypothesis that residents are interested in a course of applied anatomy…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Elective Courses, Problem Based Learning, Surgery
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