A pediatrician on the family medicine faculty

Teaching ethics in family medicine: introducing a faculty handbook.

As part of its mandate, the Committee on Ethics of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CE-CFPC) has contributed to ethics curriculum development for family medicine residents and provided ethics teaching resources since 1990. More recently, the committee has undertaken a review of previously available resources and formulated new goals for family medicine ethics curricula. The Ethics in...

The Family Medicine Curriculum Resource Project: implications for faculty development.

Faculty development implications related to implementing the Family Medicine Curriculum Resource (FMCR) Project provide an opportunity to look at the recommendations of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's federally funded Faculty Futures Initiative (FFI) and the recent Future of Family Medicine (FFM) project. Implications for faculty development include the importance of the clerkship ...

Medicine and the pediatrician in today's Poland.

Family violence: implications for the pediatrician.

There is no escape from violence in America, even for children. Public health leaders have identified violence as a problem of epidemic proportions. Family violence has been described as endemic; its existence is a constant feature of many American families, with the home as its major setting. Family violence accounts for at least 21,000 hospitalizations, 99,800 hospital days, 28,700 emergency ...

Faculty development in family medicine education: what is needed?

A growing number of countries are embracing graduate training in the specialty of Family Medicine as a core component of global health systems reform. One significant challenge for new programs is to adequately prepare for educational excellence and leadership. Promising residents are often encouraged to remain in their program as faculty, but may not have had the benefit of specific training i...