To the Editor: It has been a few years since the furor 1–8 in the CAEP Commu-nique regarding the debate as to whether the two tracks into Canadian emergency specialization should be merged or adjusted in some way, so it is probably time for those emotional letters to start again. Some CCFP-EM graduates, like myself, still suffer from a " second class citizen " complex and are without means to d...

This study examined 328 CFS sera in a study with 17 CCFP, 8 Gulf War Veterans (GWV), 24 Prostate Cancer (PC), and 52 normal sera in the modified Membrane Immunobead Assay (MIA) procedure for CTX. Three hundred and twenty-eight CFS patients' sera were examined by the modified MIA with purified MAb-CTX and 91.2% gave a titre > or =1:40. 76% of the 17 CCFP sera samples and 100% of the 8 GWV sera s...

Abstract The global warming induced by the emission of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, has become climate and environmental issues. China been working in CO 2 reduction sinks with purpose becoming carbon-neutral country 2060. capture, utilization storage (CCUS) technologies reforestation technology represented Conversion Cropland to Forestland Program (CCFP) have great potential fo...

As I joined the other candidates at the 2012 Family Medicine Forum Convocation ceremony to celebrate our newly won CCFP designations, many thoughts went through my mind. The CCFP letters marked our successful passing of the Fall 2011 Certification Examination of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). Certification was an achievement to savour, but I also felt obliged to share my tho...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess medical students' knowledge of and attitudes toward the two Canadian emergency medicine (EM) residency programs (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada [FRCPC] and Certificant of the College of Family Physicians-Emergency Medicine [CCFP-EM]). Additionally, medical students interested in EM were asked to select factors affecting t...

A new associative classification algorithm based on weighted voting (ACWV) is presented. ACWV takes advantage of two methods: the optimal rule method preferring high-quality rules and the voting method considering the majority of the rules. Moreover, the method takes into account both the length and convictions of rules to calculate their weights. First, ACWV builds a class-count FPtree (called...

Dennis Djogovic, MD, FRCPC*; Shavaun MacDonald, MD, FRCPC; Andrea Wensel, MD; Rob Green, MD, FRCPC; Osama Loubani, MD, FRCPC; Patrick Archambault, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Simon Bordeleau, MD; David Messenger, MD, FRCPC, FCCP**; Adam Szulewski, MD**; Jon Davidow, MDCM, FRCPC*; Janeva Kircher, MD; Sara Gray, MD, FRCPC, MPH; Katherine Smith, MD; James Lee, MD; Jean Marc Benoit, MD, CCFP-EM; Dan Howes, MD,...

In response to the articles on primary care reform in the February issue of Canadian Family Physician, we would like to highlight another model. By working with multidisciplinary teams in community-based and community board–directed centres, family physicians in Ontario community health centres (CHCs) have offered comprehensive health care that directly meets the needs of the community for almo...

In writings that preceded the creation of our College, Dr Victor Johnston, our first Executive Director, detailed the need to encourage GPs to be active in hospital care, to create proper postgraduate training for general practice, and to enhance research in general practice.1 Fast forward to today: family medicine is much better defined as a discipline, and we have robust standards of training...