scholarly journals Going the distance: early results of a distributed medical education initiative for Royal College residencies in Canada

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Myhre ◽  
Stacey Hohman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Education Initiative

Women’s cardiovascular health medical education initiative

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. e22-e23
Author(s):  
A. Brijmohan ◽  
N. Tang ◽  
N. Dalgarno ◽  
A. Thakrar
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Education Initiative

scholarly journals LO093: A national needs assessment survey for the development of a quality improvement and patient safety curriculum for Canadian emergency medicine residents

CJEM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (S1) ◽  
pp. S62-S62 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.B. Chartier ◽  
S. Vaillancourt ◽  
M. McGowan ◽  
K. Dainty ◽  
A.H. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Residency Training ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Postgraduate Medical Education ◽  
Clinical Scenarios

Introduction: The Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) framework defines the competencies that postgraduate medical education programs must cover for resident physicians. The 2015 iteration of the CanMEDS framework emphasizes Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS), given their role in the provision of high value and cost-effective care. However, the opinion of Emergency Medicine (EM) program directors (PDs) regarding the need for QIPS curricula is unknown, as is the current level of knowledge of EM residents in QIPS principles. We therefore sought to determine the need for a QIPS curriculum for EM residents in a Canadian Royal College EM program. Methods: We developed a national multi-modal needs assessment. This included a survey of all Royal College EM residency PDs across Canada, as well as an evaluative assessment of baseline QIPS knowledge of 30 EM residents at the University of Toronto (UT). The resident evaluation was done using the validated Revised QI Knowledge Application Tool (QIKAT-R), which evaluates an individual’s ability to decipher a systematic quality problem from short clinical scenarios and to propose change initiatives for improvement. Results: Eight of the 13 (62%) PDs responded to the survey, unanimously agreeing that QIPS should be a formal part of residency training. However, challenges identified included the lack of qualified and available faculty to develop and teach QIPS material. 30 of 30 (100%) residents spanning three cohorts completed the QIKAT-R. Median overall score was 11 out of 27 points (IQR 9-14), demonstrating the lack of poor baseline QIPS knowledge amongst residents. Conclusion: QIPS is felt to be a necessary part of residency training, but the lack of available and qualified faculty makes developing and implementing such curriculum challenging. Residents at UT consistently performed poorly on a validated QIPS assessment tool, confirming the need for a formal QIPS curriculum. We are now developing a longitudinal, evidence-based QIPS curriculum that trains both residents and faculty to contribute to QI projects at the institution level.

Trauma in Older Adults: A Medical Education Initiative

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. S115
Author(s):  
Esther Rollhaus ◽  
Alessandra Scalmati
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Education Initiative

Medicine

1983 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 251-266
Author(s):  
George L. Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Town Council ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town

During the two hundred years under review, medical education in Scotland evolved gradually from an apprentice system to become the prerogative of the universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh, named in the order of their foundation. Of those, the University of Edinburgh was not only the last to be founded, it differed also in that its administration initially was by the Town Council. It was an Act passed by that body on 9 February 1726, that established the Charter of the Medical Faculty of the University. Four Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, namely John Rutherford, Andrew Sinclair, Andrew Plummer and John Innes were appointed foundation professors, the first two to chairs of the theory and practice of medicine, Plummer and Innes to chairs of medicine and chemistry. All four had been pupils of Boerhaave.

scholarly journals Education Research Productivity of Academic Physicians

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Rourke PhD ◽  
Dale Storie MA MLIS
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Medical Education Research

For several decades, organizations such as the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada have encouraged academic physicians to engage in medical education research. The extent to which these efforts have been persuasive is unclear. This article discusses a study whose purpose was to describe changes in the educational research productivity within this group from 1997 to 2010. The authors found that there has been a substantial increase in the publishing reports of medical education research by Canadian academic physicians.

scholarly journals Educating Tomorrow's Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons in Canada: An Evolving Process

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Mulder
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Cardiac Surgery ◽  
Thoracic Surgery ◽  
Graduate Medical Education ◽  
Royal College ◽  
General Surgery ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Graduate Medical ◽  
The Past ◽  
Primary Specialty

Societal (1), technological, organizational (2), and educational developments during the past ten years havebrought about increasing pressures for change in the graduate medical education of cardiac and thoracicsurgeons (3). These changes effectively lengthened their training to eight years and created a double standardfor the education of a thoracic surgeon. A task force mandated by the Royal College of Physicians andSurgeons of Canada nucleus committees in both cardiac and thoracic surgery, with the support of theCanadian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, addressed these issues and made the followingrecommendations: cardiac surgery and thoracic surgery should each become a primary specialty with its ownnucleus committee. Each specialty would require six years of training, with the possibility of obtainingcertification in both specialties after an additional eighteen months of training. Each specialty could also beentered after the completion of full training in general surgery. In addition, the task force urged thedevelopment of a curriculum to guide educational objectives in each specialty. These changes promise tocreate a flexible, shorter, and more focused program for cardiac and thoracic surgeons in both university andcommunity settings.

scholarly journals Competency-based education in general surgery: Are Canadian residents ready?

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. E473-E475
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Gauvin ◽  
Kathryn Hay ◽  
Wilma Hopman ◽  
Scott Hurton ◽  
Stephanie Lim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Royal College ◽  
General Surgery ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Training Opportunity ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Competency Based Education ◽  
Work Hour ◽  
Competency Based

Competency-based education (CBE) is currently being implemented by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada across all residency programs. This shift away from time-based residency is proposed to be the answer to maximize training opportunity in the era of work hour restrictions and growing concerns regarding accountability in medical education. A Web-based survey was conducted to obtain feedback from Canadian general surgery residents on their experience and perception of competence within core procedures, as well as attitudes toward CBE. A total of 244 residents completed the survey. For most procedures, more than 50% of residents felt they could perform the procedure with no guidance after completing 11–30 cases. Generally, residents were welcoming of CBE; however, medium-sized programs reported some concerns regarding inadequate exposure to cases and risk of training less well-rounded surgeons. This is valuable resident feedback for programs to consider during the implementation process.

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