Home visits in family medicine residency: evaluation of 8 years of a training program.

Problem Addressed: There has been a decline in family physicians providing home visits to housebound patients.

Objective Of Program: To increase family medicine residents' exposure to home visits; their comfort and skills in providing home visits; and their willingness to provide home visits after graduation.

Program Description: Between 2000 and 2010, each family practice resident at St Joseph's Health Centre Family Medicine Teaching Unit in Toronto, Ont, was assigned at least 1 housebound patient to care for longitudinally over 2 years; the rationale for this was to increase the sense of "ownership" and responsibility among residents for their assigned homebound patients.

Approach to diagnosis and management of abnormal uterine bleeding.

Objective: To present a primary care approach to evaluating and managing abnormal uterine bleeding.

Sources Of Information: Literature searches were conducted on MEDLINE from 1996 to November 2004, EMBASE from 1996 to January 2005, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from the 4th quarter of 2004 to the 3rd quarter of 2005, guideline advisory committee databases, the Canadian Medical Association Infobase, and Clinical Evidence. The quality of evidence ranged from level I to III.