Canadian family physician Médecin de famille canadien
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To obtain a deeper understanding of community faculty members' perceptions about engagement in educational scholarship. ⋯ When developing strategies to engage community faculty members in educational scholarship, it is important to consider the implications of members' professional identity, as well as implicit models of scholarship. To expand the concept of educational scholarship beyond research activities, additional scholarly contributions need to be supported, recognized, and valued.
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To collect information about the types, frequency, importance, and quality of mentorship received among academic family medicine faculty, and to identify variables associated with receiving high-quality mentorship. ⋯ With increasing emphasis on distributed education and community-based teachers, family medicine faculties will need to develop strategies to support effective mentorship across a range of settings and career stages.
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To evaluate satisfaction with civilian residency training programs among serving general duty medical officers within the Canadian Armed Forces. ⋯ General duty medical officers were satisfied with many aspects of their family medicine residency training; however, military-specific areas for improvement were identified. Many of these areas might be addressed within the context of a 2-year residency program without risking the generalist nature of family medicine training. These findings provide valuable data for residency programs that accept military trainees across the country.
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To examine family physicians' practices in and opinions on asking patients about their religious and spiritual beliefs, as well as physicians' comfort levels in asking. ⋯ This study found that family physicians were more likely to ask patients about their religious and spiritual beliefs if they had higher comfort levels in asking or if they believed that asking was important. Further, this study found that family physicians' comfort level with asking was higher if they believed that it was important to ask and that it was their business to ask about religious and spiritual beliefs. Physician comfort levels with asking patients about religious and spiritual beliefs can be addressed through adequate training and education.