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Complementing undergraduate medical training

Ivy Oandasan, Douglas Archibald, Louise Authier, Kathrine Lawrence, Laura April McEwan, Maria Palacios, Marie Parkkari, Heidi Plant and Shelley Ross
Canadian Family Physician August 2015, 61 (8) 668;
Ivy Oandasan
Toronto, Ont
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Louise Authier
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We thank Drs Keegan, Scott, Tan, and Horrey and Ms Tissera for bringing forth an important reminder to Canadian Family Physician readers on the existence and success of the Shared Canadian Curriculum in Family Medicine (SHARC-FM).1 We were remiss in not mentioning in our article2 the important contribution of SHARC-FM, carried out by undergraduate family medicine leaders working collaboratively over the past 10 years, sharing a common approach to family medicine learning. As noted on its website, SHARC-FM is a “matrix of family medicine educational resources (objectives, point-of-care tools, cases, etc.) that educators and trainees can use to support learning in family medicine.”3 We believe its effects have been important in Canada. As shared in our article: Nearly all participants (92%) felt either positive or strongly positive about their choice to be family physicians ... participants believed they had had extensive experiences within family medicine settings while in medical school, with strong family medicine role models.2

This finding reflects the work of family medicine undergraduate leaders and provides some evidence of the positive effects SHARC-FM has had in exposing medical students to family medicine in Canada. We used resident entrance surveys to elicit more specific information about the level and type of exposure to the different domains of clinical care4 affiliated with the discipline of family medicine. We hope the findings of our paper serve to complement the work of SHARC-FM and provide further information for those developing undergraduate family medicine curricula.

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  • Competing interests

    Dr Oandasan is the Director of Education at the College of Family Physicians of Canada in Mississauga, Ont, and Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario. The paper was written in her academic role and is not a policy paper of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

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