A proposal for the curriculum and evaluation for training rural family physicians in enhanced surgical skills | Zendy

Nadine R. Caron | Zendy; Stuart Iglesias | Zendy; Randall Friesen | Zendy; Vanessa Berjat | Zendy; Nancy Humber | Zendy; Ryan Falk | Zendy; Mark Prins | Zendy; Victoria Vogt Haines | Zendy; Brian Geller | Zendy; Fred Janke | Zendy; Robert Woollard | Zendy; Bret Batchelor | Zendy; Jared Van Bussel | Zendy

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A proposal for the curriculum and evaluation for training rural family physicians in enhanced surgical skills

Author(s) -

Nadine R. Caron,

Stuart Iglesias,

Randall Friesen,

Vanessa Berjat,

Nancy Humber,

Ryan Falk,

Mark Prins,

Victoria Vogt Haines,

Brian Geller,

Fred Janke,

Robert Woollard,

Bret Batchelor,

Jared Van Bussel

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.002215

Subject(s) - medicine , curriculum , medical education , set (abstract data type) , training (meteorology) , core curriculum , family medicine , pedagogy , psychology , physics , meteorology , computer science , programming language

Rural western Canada relies heavily on family physicians with enhanced surgical skills (ESS) for surgical services. The recent decision by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) to recognize ESS as a "community of practice" section offers a potential home akin to family practice anesthesia and emergency medicine. To our knowledge, however, a skill set for ESS in Canada has never been described formally. In this paper the Curriculum Committee of the National ESS Working Group proposes a generic curriculum for the training and evaluation of the ESS skill set.

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