RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Academic family medicine in Canada
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1559
OP 1563
VO 148
IS 9
A1 Hennen, B. K.
YR 1993
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/148/9/1559.abstract
AB Fifty years ago family practice in Canada had no academic presence. Stimulated by a number of general practitioners and with the support of the Canadian Medical Association, the College of General Practitioners of Canada (CGPC) was founded in 1954. In 1962, conferences on education for general practice attended by the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges and the CGPC led to pilot postgraduate residencies in family practice supported by Department of National Health and Welfare. The first certification examination was held in 1969 and, by 1974, all Canadian medical schools had a family medicine residency program. Today departments of family medicine contribute substantially to undergraduate education in all 16 schools. In Canada, the medical profession, governments and the medical schools have demonstrated the importance they place on appropriate education for family physicians.