Teaching multimorbidity to medical students.

Background: Multimorbidity is a rising health care phenomenon and doctors require specific skill sets to effectively care for patients with multiple illnesses. Despite this, most medical education is taught using a single-disease, systems-based approach. Consequently, students can struggle to manage patients with multimorbidity.

Family physician and obstetrician episiotomy rates in low-risk obstetrics in southern Alberta.

Objective: To examine the episiotomy rate for women delivering in a regional hospital versus the rate in rural hospitals.

Design: Retrospective review of low-risk delivery charts for a 12-month period (2006 to 2007).

Setting: One regional and 3 rural hospitals in southern Alberta.