Canadian national survey of family medicine residents on point-of-care ultrasound training.

Objective: To assess the quality of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training in family medicine residency programs and to obtain the opinions of current family medicine residents on the role of ultrasound in primary care.

Design: A 23-question online survey conducted using SurveyMonkey between March 15 and June 30, 2017.

Setting: Canada.

Canadian national survey of point-of-care ultrasound training in family medicine residency programs.

Objective: To assess the current state of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training in Canadian family medicine residency programs.

Design: Cross-sectional survey to evaluate POCUS education in accredited Canadian family medicine residency programs; only 1 completed survey was accepted per residency program.

Setting: Seventeen accredited Canadian family medicine residency programs.

Enhanced recovery pathway for radical prostatectomy: Implementation and evaluation in a universal healthcare system.

Introduction: Enhanced recovery pathways are standardized, multidisciplinary, consensus-based tools that provide guidelines for evidence-based decision-making. This study evaluates the impact of the implementation of a clinical care pathway on patient outcomes following radical prostatectomy in a universal healthcare system.

Methods: Medical charts of 200 patients with prostate cancer who underwent open and minimally invasive radical prostatectomy at a single academic hospital from 2009 to 2012 were reviewed.