Renewing postgraduate family medicine education: the rationale for Triple C.

Canadian family medicine training is highly praised worldwide, but more recently it has been affected by many external pressures. Issues such as training efficiency, social accountability, and a global move toward competency-based education suggest it is time for curriculum renewal. In order to respond to these challenges, the Working Group on Postgraduate Curriculum Review of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) came to the conclusion that residency training programs should develop and implement a competency-based curriculum that is • comprehensive, • focused on continuity of education and patient care, and • centred in family medicine. Together these recommendations form the Triple C Competency-based Curriculum (Triple C).1 This is the second in a series of articles explaining the Triple C initiative. While the first article presented a general overview of Triple C,2 highlighted here are the reasons Triple C is recommended as part of a national curriculum renewal process for the discipline of family medicine.