101 results match your criteria: "Western University in London[Affiliation]"
Problem Addressed: In 2006, leaders of undergraduate family medicine education programs faced a series of increasing curriculum mandates in the context of limited time and financial resources. Additionally, it became apparent that a hidden curriculum against family medicine as a career choice was active in medical schools.
Objective Of Program: The Shared Canadian Curriculum in Family Medicine was developed by the Canadian Undergraduate Family Medicine Education Directors and supported by the College of Family Physicians of Canada as a national collaborative project to support medical student training in family medicine clerkship.
Practice simulated office orals as a predictor of Certification examination performance in family medicine.
Can Fam Physician
April 2017
Emeritus Professor at Laval University in Quebec city, Que, and is a consultant in testing and assessment at the College of Family Physicians of Canada in Mississauga, Ont.
Objective: To determine if performance on practice simulated office orals (SOOs) conducted during residency training could predict residents' performance on the SOO component of the College of Family Physicians of Canada's (CFPC's) final Certification examination.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: University of Ottawa in Ontario.
Understanding bladder management on a palliative care unit: a grounded theory study.
Int J Palliat Nurs
March 2017
Family Physician and Practicing in Palliative Care, Adjunct Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Western University in London, ON Canada.
Background: Research regarding factors associated with nursing-initiated changes to bladder management at end-of-life is sparse.
Objectives: To explore the process of Palliative Care Unit (PCU) nurses' approach to bladder management changes.
Methods: Nursing staff from one PCU in London, Canada were interviewed regarding bladder management care practices.
Screening for frailty in primary care: Accuracy of gait speed and hand-grip strength.
Can Fam Physician
January 2017
Geriatrician in Ottawa, Ont, Medical Director of the Regional Geriatric Program of Eastern Ontario, and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Objective: To examine the accuracy of individual Fried frailty phenotype measures in identifying the Fried frailty phenotype in primary care.
Design: Retrospective chart review.
Setting: A community-based primary care practice in Kitchener, Ont.
It Takes Two to Tango: Researchers and Decision-Makers Collaborating to Implement Practice Changes for Patients with Multimorbidity.
Healthc Q
June 2017
Distinguished university professor in the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in London, ON.
An integrated knowledge translation strategy is a key factor in fostering the implementation of practice changes. Building on a 15-year history of projects that include close collaboration between researchers and decision-makers in the Saguenay region of Quebec (Canada), the authors identify several key elements that resulted in practice changes in primary care and improved outcomes for patients with multimorbidity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTaking the pulse of team functioning in interprofessional primary health care teams.
Can Fam Physician
September 2016
Executive Director of the Thames Valley Family Health Team.
Asking patients about their religious and spiritual beliefs: Cross-sectional study of family physicians.
Can Fam Physician
September 2016
Objective: To examine family physicians' practices in and opinions on asking patients about their religious and spiritual beliefs, as well as physicians' comfort levels in asking.
Design: Cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaires.
Setting: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.
Objective: To discover the frequency of psychosocial and other diagnoses occurring at the end of a visit when patients present to their FPs with concerns about fatigue.
Design: Cross-sectional study of patient-FP encounters for fatigue.
Setting: Ten FP practices in southwestern Ontario.
Co-ingestion of tricyclic antidepressants with selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors: Overdose in the emergency department.
Can Fam Physician
June 2016
Emergency physician at Montfort Hospital in Ottawa, Ont, and Lecturer at the University of Ottawa.
Greener medical homes: Environmental responsibility in family medicine.
Can Fam Physician
May 2016
Professor in and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, and Chief of Family Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences.
Impact of family medicine research: Bibliometrics and beyond.
Can Fam Physician
March 2016
Professor in the Department of Family Medicine of the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in London, Ont, and former Chair of the department.
Understanding multimorbidity in primary health care.
Can Fam Physician
October 2015
Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research and is Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is Director of the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health.
Why most randomized controlled trials are irrelevant: And why yours will not be.
Can Fam Physician
September 2015
Objective: To provide a population-based, Canada-wide picture of health care needs and health care use, and present it in a highly accessible manner, allowing provincial comparisons and comparisons with other international jurisdictions.
Design: A comparison of the rates of health care use among jurisdictions, using Canadian-population survey data and health administrative data.
Setting: Provincial jurisdictions across Canada.
Not a loss of professionalism.
Can Fam Physician
September 2014
Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, affiliated with the Montfort Hospital teaching site, in Ontario. He is working toward completing his doctorate in family medicine at Western University in London, Ont.
Accidental digital epinephrine injection: to treat or not to treat?
Can Fam Physician
August 2014
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, both at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in London, Ont.