Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Current
    • Published Ahead of Print
    • Archive
    • Supplemental Issues
    • Collections - French
    • Collections - English
  • Info for
    • Authors & Reviewers
    • Submit a Manuscript
    • Advertisers
    • Careers & Locums
    • Subscribers
    • Permissions
  • About CFP
    • About CFP
    • About the CFPC
    • Editorial Advisory Board
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
  • Feedback
    • Feedback
    • Rapid Responses
    • Most Read
    • Most Cited
    • Email Alerts
  • Blogs
    • Latest Blogs
    • Blog Guidelines
    • Directives pour les blogues
  • Mainpro+ Credits
    • About Mainpro+
    • Member Login
    • Instructions
  • Other Publications
    • http://www.cfpc.ca/Canadianfamilyphysician/
    • https://www.cfpc.ca/Login/
    • Careers and Locums

User menu

  • My alerts

Search

  • Advanced search
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
  • Other Publications
    • http://www.cfpc.ca/Canadianfamilyphysician/
    • https://www.cfpc.ca/Login/
    • Careers and Locums
  • My alerts
The College of Family Physicians of Canada

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Current
    • Published Ahead of Print
    • Archive
    • Supplemental Issues
    • Collections - French
    • Collections - English
  • Info for
    • Authors & Reviewers
    • Submit a Manuscript
    • Advertisers
    • Careers & Locums
    • Subscribers
    • Permissions
  • About CFP
    • About CFP
    • About the CFPC
    • Editorial Advisory Board
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
  • Feedback
    • Feedback
    • Rapid Responses
    • Most Read
    • Most Cited
    • Email Alerts
  • Blogs
    • Latest Blogs
    • Blog Guidelines
    • Directives pour les blogues
  • Mainpro+ Credits
    • About Mainpro+
    • Member Login
    • Instructions
  • RSS feeds
  • Follow cfp Template on Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
Review ArticlePractice

Family medicine around the world: overview by region

The Besrour Papers: a series on the state of family medicine in the world

Neil Arya, Christine Gibson, David Ponka, Cynthia Haq, Stephanie Hansel, Bruce Dahlman and Katherine Rouleau
Canadian Family Physician June 2017; 63 (6) 436-441;
Neil Arya
Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Western University in London, Ont.
MD CCFP FCFP DLitt
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Christine Gibson
Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary in Alberta and Executive Director of the Global Familymed Foundation.
MD FCFP MMedEd DTM&H
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
David Ponka
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ontario and Lead of the Besrour Papers Working Group.
MD CM CCFP(EM) FCFP MSc
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: dponka@bruyere.org
Cynthia Haq
Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
MD
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Stephanie Hansel
Technical Specialist at Juzoor for Health and Social Development in Ramallah, Palestine, at the time of the study.
MSc
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Bruce Dahlman
Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Care in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at Kabarak University in Kenya.
MD MSHPE FAAFP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Katherine Rouleau
Associate Professor and Director of the Global Health Program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto in Ontario, and Director of the Besrour Centre at the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
MD CM CCFP MHSc
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading
Submit a Response to This Article
Compose eLetter

More information about text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Author Information
First or given name, e.g. 'Peter'.
Your last, or family, name, e.g. 'MacMoody'.
Your email address, e.g. higgs-boson@gmail.com
Your role and/or occupation, e.g. 'Orthopedic Surgeon'.
Your organization or institution (if applicable), e.g. 'Royal Free Hospital'.
Statement of Competing Interests
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.

Vertical Tabs

Jump to comment:

No eLetters have been published for this article.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

Canadian Family Physician: 63 (6)
Canadian Family Physician
Vol. 63, Issue 6
1 Jun 2017
  • Table of Contents
  • About the Cover
  • Index by author
Print
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on The College of Family Physicians of Canada.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Family medicine around the world: overview by region
(Your Name) has sent you a message from The College of Family Physicians of Canada
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the The College of Family Physicians of Canada web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Citation Tools
Family medicine around the world: overview by region
Neil Arya, Christine Gibson, David Ponka, Cynthia Haq, Stephanie Hansel, Bruce Dahlman, Katherine Rouleau
Canadian Family Physician Jun 2017, 63 (6) 436-441;

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Respond to this article
Share
Family medicine around the world: overview by region
Neil Arya, Christine Gibson, David Ponka, Cynthia Haq, Stephanie Hansel, Bruce Dahlman, Katherine Rouleau
Canadian Family Physician Jun 2017, 63 (6) 436-441;
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Abstract
    • Composition of the committee
    • Methods
    • Report
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgments
    • Notes
    • Footnotes
    • References
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • PubMed
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • "We Havent Even Started Crying Yet": Caring for the Family Under Occupation and War in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
  • General practice trainee, supervisor and educator perspectives on the transitions in postgraduate training: a scoping review
  • Snapshot of family medicine around the world: Introducing the global family medicine website
  • Research themes of family and community physicians in Brazil
  • Family medicine: An evolving field around the world
  • La medecine familiale: Une discipline en evolution dans le monde entier
  • Postgraduate education among family and community physicians in Brazil: the Trajetorias MFC project
  • Family medicine residency training in Ghana after 20 years: resident attitudes about their education
  • Postgraduate education among family and community physicians in Brazil: the Trajetorias MFC project
  • Contrasting current challenges from the Brazilian and Canadian national health systems: The Besrour Papers: a series on the state of family medicine in Canada and Brazil
  • Pilot study to build capacity for family medicine with abbreviated, low-cost training programme with minimal impact on patient care for a cohort of 84 general practitioners caring for Palestinian refugees in Jordan
  • Les defis a relever pour renforcer les soins primaires: Les articles Besrour : une serie sur letat de la medecine familiale au Canada et au Bresil
  • Challenges facing efforts to strengthen primary health care: The Besrour Papers: a series on the state of family medicine in Canada and Brazil
  • Developing family practice to respond to global health challenges: The Besrour Papers: a series on the state of family medicine in the world
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

Practice

  • Managing type 2 diabetes in primary care during COVID-19
  • Effectiveness of dermoscopy in skin cancer diagnosis
  • Spontaneous pneumothorax in children
Show more Practice

Clinical Review

  • Top studies of 2024 relevant to primary care
  • Approach to steatotic liver disease in the office
  • Foreskin care
Show more Clinical Review

Similar Articles

Navigate

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Archive
  • Collections - English
  • Collections - Française

For Authors

  • Authors and Reviewers
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Permissions
  • Terms of Use

General Information

  • About CFP
  • About the CFPC
  • Advertisers
  • Careers & Locums
  • Editorial Advisory Board
  • Subscribers

Journal Services

  • Email Alerts
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • RSS Feeds

Copyright © 2025 by The College of Family Physicians of Canada

Powered by HighWire