How Can We Raise Awareness of Physician's Needs in Order to Increase Adherence to Management and Leadership Training?

Due to the increasing complexity of medical education and practice, the training of healthcare professionals for leadership and management roles and responsibilities has become increasingly important. But gaps in physician leadership and management skills have been identified across a broad range of organizational and geographic settings. Many clinicians are inadequately prepared to meet their day-to-day clinical leadership responsibilities.

Providing high-quality care in primary care settings: how to make trade-offs.

Objective: To gain a deeper understanding of how primary care (PC) practices belonging to different models manage resources to provide high-quality care.

Design: Multiple-case study embedded in a cross-sectional study of a random sample of 37 practices.

Setting: Three regions of Quebec.

Characteristics of primary care practices associated with high quality of care.

Background: No primary practice care model has been shown to be superior in achieving high-quality primary care. We aimed to identify the organizational characteristics of primary care practices that provide high-quality primary care.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional observational study involving a stratified random sample of 37 primary care practices from 3 regions of Quebec.

Patients' experience of chronic illness care in a network of teaching settings.

Objective: To evaluate chronic illness care delivery from the patient's perspective and to examine its main correlates.

Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study using questionnaires and medical chart review.

Setting: Nine teaching family practices in Quebec.