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JANUS SNAPSHOTS

For further information, contact Sarah Scott, Janus Project Coordinator,

College of Family Physicians of Canada, telephone (905) 629-0900, extension 289; e-mail sks@cfpc.ca

Weekly work hours

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o compare physicians’ self-reported hours of work each week with the patient populations (urban or rural) they serve, we asked these questions.

How much time do you spend in an average week (excluding on-call time), in several professional activities: direct patient care, indirect patient care, housecalls, on duty in emergency rooms, managing your own patients in emergency rooms, hospital inpatient care, inpatient care in other types of institutions, managing your practice, continuing medical education, teaching, research-related activities, administrative activities, and other professional activities? The responses to all of these activities were totaled and are represented in the “Hours excluding on-call stints” bar below.

Physicians were asked: “Please estimate your average total number of on-call work hours per month.” In the graph below, this value was divided by 4 and added to the value in the “Hours excluding on-call stints” bar to produce the “Hours including on-call stints” bar.

Source: College of Family Physicians of Canada. 2001 CFPC National Family Physician Workforce Survey [Part of the Janus Project: Family physicians meeting the needs of tomorrow’s society]. Mississauga, Ont:

College of Family Physicians of Canada; 2001. Response rate for this mailed survey was 51.2% (N = 13 088).

Data were weighted to represent all practising FPs and GPs in Canada (N = 25 520).

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