17 results match your criteria: "Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax[Affiliation]"
Chronic pain management in primary care: Using population-based data to examine family physician practice patterns.
Can Fam Physician
September 2024
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, and holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Primary Care.
Objective: To examine trends in chronic pain (CP) practice patterns among community-based family physicians (FPs).
Design: Population-based descriptive study using health administrative data.
Setting: British Columbia from fiscal years 2008-2009 to 2017-2018.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to explore how not having a regular primary care provider affects patients' views on health care and their ability to meet their health needs.
- Conducted through 41 semistructured interviews in Canadian provinces, findings highlighted two main issues: unmet health needs and the adverse impacts of being unattached to a provider.
- Key benefits of having a primary care provider include better access to care and stronger relationships with health professionals, while being unattached is linked to negative mental health outcomes and lower confidence in the health care system.
Changes in comprehensiveness of services delivered by Canadian family physicians: Analysis of population-based linked data in 4 provinces.
Can Fam Physician
August 2023
Associate Faculty member at the School of Leadership Studies, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC and a certified health care consultant.
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to analyze changes in the range of services provided by family physicians in four Canadian provinces, focusing on which areas and settings experienced the most significant changes.
- Using billing data linked to physician registries, the research evaluates service comprehensiveness over two fiscal years (1999-2000 and 2017-2018) across various medical settings and service areas.
- Results indicate a decline in service comprehensiveness across all provinces, with the most significant reductions occurring in specific service settings, especially among seasoned male physicians practicing in urban environments.
Ending the generational blame game: Let us move forward with needed primary care change.
Can Fam Physician
August 2023
Collaborative mental health care: Engaging health systems to support a team-based approach.
Can Fam Physician
February 2023
Founder and Director of the Living Well Integrative Health Centre in Halifax, NS, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Objective: To examine the degree to which Canadian consensus guideline recommendations for annual comprehensive preventive care assessments of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are being taken up by Nova Scotia family physicians since the introduction of incentive billing codes; and to discuss the importance of complete physical examinations for this patient population, extra time needed in clinic encounters, and challenges for practitioners providing care.
Design: Analysis of family physicians' billing of codes 03.04C and 03.
Promoting health care decision-making capabilities of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Can Fam Physician
April 2019
Manager and Senior Research Associate at Surrey Place.
Objective: To review health information exchange (HIE) processes that affect the health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and to suggest practical tips and strategies for communicating, collaborating, and coordinating in the primary care setting.
Sources Of Information: The "Primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. 2018 Canadian consensus guidelines" literature review and interdisciplinary input.
Leading from where you teach: Educational leader role within the Fundamental Teaching Activities Framework.
Can Fam Physician
October 2017
Director of Faculty Development and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Members of the Working Group on Faculty Development, which prepared the Fundamental Teaching Activities Framework.
Computer use in primary care practices in Canada.
Can Fam Physician
May 2017
Associate Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
Objective: To examine the use of computers in primary care practices.
Design: The international Quality and Cost of Primary Care study was conducted in Canada in 2013 and 2014 using a descriptive cross-sectional survey method to collect data from practices across Canada. Participating practices filled out several surveys, one of them being the Family Physician Survey, from which this study collected its data.
Teaching outside the clinical setting: Twelve steps to feeling more comfortable and capable with any invitation to teach, based on the Fundamental Teaching Activities Framework.
Can Fam Physician
April 2017
Chair of the College of Family Physicians of Canada Working Group on Faculty Development and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. Member of the Working Group on Faculty Development, which prepared the Fundamental Teaching Activities Framework.
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of field notes in assessing teachers' confidence and perceived competence, and the effect of field notes on residents' perceptions of their development of competence.
Design: A faculty and resident survey completed 5 years after field notes were introduced into the program.
Setting: Five Dalhousie University family medicine sites--Fredericton, Moncton, and Saint John in New Brunswick, and Halifax and Sydney in Nova Scotia.