'Practice Ready Graduates': A Millennialist Fantasy

Preparing a collaborative, practice-ready workforce.

Locum practice by recent family medicine graduates.

OBJECTIVE To explore the demographic characteristics of recent Alberta family medicine residency graduates choosing locum practice, as well as their reasons for choosing and leaving locum practice and the frustrations and rewards of locum placements. DESIGN Web-based and mailed cross-sectional survey and interviews. SETTING The family medicine residency training programs at the University o...

New medical graduates - can general practice help with training?

Medical student numbers in Australia have increased significantly in recent years. A resulting increase in medical graduates is inevitable and desirable. Western Australian medical graduates will double by 2012 and treble shortly afterward. Insufficient training positions in hospitals will likely require additional training opportunities to be provided by general practices. This article reviews...

More medical graduates than ever choosing family practice.

644 CMAJ, June 16, 2015, 187(9) ©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors The College of Family Physicians of Canada has moved closer to its ultimate goal of having 45% of medical school graduates embrace its specialty, with 38.5% of graduates selecting family practice as their first choice of discipline in 2015. That percentage is little changed from 2014’s 38.2%, but gets the college within ...

Sexual fantasy.

This article reviews the research literature on sexual fantasy, a central aspect of human sexual behavior. Topics include (a) gender similarities and differences in the incidence, frequency, and content of sexual fantasies and how they relate to sociocultural and sociobiological theories of sexual behavior; (b) the association between frequency or content of sexual fantasies and variables such ...