Objective: To develop a definition of competence in family medicine sufficient to guide a review of Certification examinations by the Board of Examiners of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
Design: Delphi analysis of responses to a 4-question postal survey.
Setting: Canadian family practice.
Objective: To review the success of international medical graduates (IMGs) who are pursuing or have completed a Quebec residency training program and examinations.
Design: We retrospectively reviewed IMGs' success rates on the pre-residency Collège des médecins du Québec medical clinical sciences written examination and objective structured clinical examination, as well as on the post-residency Certification Examination in Family Medicine.
Setting: Quebec.
Can Fam Physician
October 2005
Objective: To create a list of core and enhanced procedures suitable for family medicine training.
Design: Mailed or e-mailed survey using a Delphi technique.
Setting: Randomly selected family physician practices across Canada.
Background: A new licensing examination for family physicians was introduced in the Province of Quebec, Canada, in 1990. It contains a newly developed, standardized, patient-based objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) used in complementarity with two other instruments (Short Answers Management Problems [SAMPs] and Simulated Office Orals [SOOs]) that have been used for many years by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) for certification purposes. This research studied the criterion validity of the OSCE using the last instruments as criteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince 1988 in Quebec the completion of a residency training program in family medicine or a specialty and of a comprehensive examination has been necessary to obtain a licence. An objective, structured clinical examination (OSCE) was designed by the Corporation professionnelle des médecins du Québec and Quebec's four medical schools to evaluate the clinical competence of newly trained family physicians. The certification examination of the College of Family Physicians of Canada was added to the OSCE.
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