CME workshop in recognizing boundary limits during a medical visit.

Background And Objectives: Professional boundaries help to establish and maintain the foundation of the doctor-patient relationship. Our objective was to measure physicians' level of awareness in recognizing a boundary limit, their intention to change their behavior regarding boundaries, and their self-reported changes in behavior after participation in an educational workshop, "The Right Distance."

Methods: This longitudinal study used questionnaires to measure the level of awareness of the participants in recognizing boundary limits before and after the workshop and to measure their intention to change their behavior and self-reported behavior changes immediately after the workshop and 6 months later.

Breaking bad news: impact of a continuing medical education workshop.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of an interactive continuing medical education workshop designed to help physicians in breaking bad news to their patients.

Methodology: Analysis of post-workshop questionnaires from 539 physicians assessing the retention of the key concepts and the perception of the potential impact of the workshop on their practice immediately after the workshop and six months later.

Results: The most significant concepts retained by the respondents are: the need to take into consideration the whole patient (42.

[Residency in family medicine: problems and solutions].

OBJECTIVE: To identify the problems encountered by residents during training and the solutions they proposed. DESIGN: Qualitative study. SETTING: Family practice program at Sherbrooke University.