Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is an event that deeply impacts our personal, professional, and collective lives. How do we teach in these times of great upheaval? What are the main changes that have occurred?
Method: Using the Cartel logic, four professors and a qualitative researcher carried out an autoethnographic research aimed at documenting the main changes that have occurred in the teaching of family medicine in their respective practices located in four different academic family medicine groups at the University of Sherbrooke.
Results: Five key moments in teaching that occurred during a pandemic were identified: a) the declaration of a pandemic, b) the approach with the graduating/advanced cohort of residents, c) the anticipation and preparation for the arrival of new residents, d) arrival of first year residents and e) adaptation to the second wave.
Background And Objectives: Many clinical supervisors in family medicine feel ill-equipped to teach senior care to their family medicine residents (trainees). We therefore sought to explore their preferred learning strategies for improving their clinical and teaching skills with regard to senior care.
Methods: In this qualitative study, we conducted focus groups and interviews with supervisors from four family medicine clinics, to explore their preferred educational strategies.
Objective: To support the implementation of the advanced access model in a network of family medicine academic settings, and to identify solutions to teaching advanced access to family medicine residents.
Design: Participatory action research study using descriptive methods.
Setting: A network of 11 academic family medicine settings, mostly located in the province of Quebec.
We assessed clinicians' continuing professional development (CPD) needs at family practice teaching clinics in the province of Quebec. Our mixed methodology design comprised an environmental scan of training programs at four family medicine departments, an expert panel to determine priority clinical situations for senior care, a supervisors survey to assess their perceived CPD needs, and interviews to help understand the rationale behind their needs. From the environmental scan, the expert panel selected 13 priority situations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Ensuring access to timely and appropriate primary healthcare for people living in poverty is an issue facing all countries, even those with universal healthcare systems. The transformation of healthcare practices and organization could be improved by involving key stakeholders from the community and the healthcare system in the development of research interventions. The aim of this project is to stimulate changes in healthcare organizations and practices by encouraging collaboration between care teams and people living in poverty.
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