Please join the CFPC’s Health Professional Educators Group in Family Medicine (HPEG-FM) on November 5, 2021, from 3pm-4pm ET for their annual community event titled ‘What's Missing in EDI Initiatives? Novel Approaches from the Racialized Resident Community’ presented by Dr. Shayna Henry and Dr. Anjali Menezes.

In 2020, Drs. Anjali and Henry co-founded the Racialized Residents at McMaster (RRAM) group with a focus on peer support for racialized residents, mentorship from racialized staff…

The College of Family Physicians of Canada is pleased to share with you a call for interest for an Indigenous family medicine clinician educator to provide consulting services. We encourage you to share this with those in your community who may be interested in applying. 

McMaster University has developed a free open access online library for categorized articles in Health Professions Education. You can read, rate, and suggest additional citations.

 This open-access essential reading list was designed for early or mid career clinician educators interested in Health Professions Education. This resource is ideal for self-directed learning, as well as for other uses such as course reading lists and journal clubs.

You will see a mix of publications from major…

CanMEDS–Family Medicine

CanMEDS–Family Medicine (CanMEDS-FM) 2017 is a competency framework designed for all family physicians regardless of practice type, location, or populations served. Together with the College of Family Physicians of Canada’s (CFPC) Family Medicine Professional Profile, it forms an overall picture of the roles and responsibilities of Canadian family physicians along with the competencies required to support their work.

Using CanMEDS-FM

CanMEDS-FM applies to all family…

Several resources have been developed to support teaching and assessing the CanMEDS-FM Collaborator Role, and also serve to connect various family medicine education frameworks such as the Fundamental Teaching Activities and Evaluation Objectives. These resources have been developed specifically for learners, and for the clinical preceptor who teaches within and outside of the clinical setting. In particular, TEAMS has been created as a reflection tool to be used by learners and teachers to…

The CFPC released two new family medicine-specific recommendations as part of Choosing Wisely Canada’s new campaign —Opioid Wisely. The campaign aims to raise awareness around the importance of clinician-patient conversations to reduce the harms associated with opioid prescribing.

For more information on the campaign visit https://choosingwiselycanada.org/campaign/opioid-wisely/