How does one become a family physician?

• The handbook on ethics, produced by the Committee on Ethics of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CE-CFPC), offers a practical and user-friendly guide, complete

Dr Godwin is Interim Chair of Family Medicine, Director of the Primary Healthcare Research Unit, and Professor of Family Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St

As McWhinney has so profoundly said, family medicine is fundamentally different: it is the only discipline to define itself in terms of relationships, espe- cially

A s industrialized countries are strengthening their primary health care sectors, the profession of family medicine is losing its appeal. 1-5 Data from some countries

The  IgFM  at  the  U  of  T,  founded  in  2003,  is  a  fully  student-run  initiative  that  has  focused  on  3  primary  areas:  informing 

D uring  the  past  year,  the  time  we  have  spent  at  the  Motherisk  Program  counseling  pregnant  women  and  their  health  care  providers  on  the 

The  objective  of  the  study  was  to  assess  what  pro- portion  of  medical  students  considered  family  med- icine  as  a  career  choice  at 

In  2001  family  medicine  interest  groups  existed  at  a  variety  of  medical  schools  in  Canada  and  the  United  States.  Each  college  of  medicine