Table 1.

Stakeholder groups and needs for a national family medicine clerkship curriculum

GROUPNEEDS
Family medicine undergraduate education leaders

  • Time-efficient (ie, must not be a big burden)

  • Supportive of the ED-2 criteria (ie, the clinical experiences students are required to have for the purposes of program accreditation)

  • Voluntary (ie, must not be a prescribed curriculum)

  • Available in both official Canadian languages (French and English)

  • Developed along a family medicine perspective and spectrum of care (ie, not simply a collection of ambulatory medicine resources)

Medical schools

  • Respectful of local control over local curriculum

  • Rigorous in development

Students

  • Easily accessible

  • Directly supportive of learning of key topics in family medicine

  • Kept up to date

Patients

  • Reliable and kept up to date, supporting up-to-date clinical care by learners

Clinical preceptors

  • Easily accessible