Supporting early academic family medicine careers with the clinician scholar enhanced-skills program.

Context: The Clinician Scholar Program (CSP) is an enhanced-skills (R3) residency program to train clinician researchers/educators/leaders for academic family practice. This article intends to share Laval University's CSP development and evaluation strategy, and provide recommendations for similar innovations in other disciplines/settings.

Methods: This article uses Kern's model to present the program development, and a program-oriented approach for program evaluation, carried from 2011 to 2017 using descriptive data.