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Dear CFP editorial staff,
I would like to commend the authors Dr. Rajaram, Dr. Moore, and Dr. Mamdani on their excellent article about the challenges in preparing family medicine residents to practice in the digital era.
Canada Health Infoway, a federally funded not-for-profit organization, has been engaged in influencing change in the education of Canada's next generation of clinicians since 2011.
We partnered with three national organizations - AFMC, CASN, and AFPC - with a goal of encouraging health informatics education for clinicians-in-training.
The partnership with the AFMC yielded the following results, including:
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- A prototype online toolkit of health informatics resources for medical educators, still in development: http://www.ehealthresources.ca
- Developing national e-Health Competencies for undergraduate medical education: https://www.ehealthresources.ca/en/articles/4
- Influencing the CanMEDS 2015 framework through the involvement of our project's Leadership Committee, led by Dr. Kendall Ho.
- Producing a series of CME-accredited webinars on digital health, also available through www.ehealthresources.ca
- Publishing a chapter in Shachak et al.'s Health Informatics textbook, Health Professionals' Education in the Age of Clinical Inf...Competing Interests: None declared.
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