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Virchow 2.0 and physician advocacy

From call to effective action

Lawrence C. Loh and Nikhil Rajaram
Canadian Family Physician December 2020; 66 (12) 884-886; DOI: https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.6612884
Lawrence C. Loh
Medical Officer of Health for Peel Public Health in Mississauga, Ont, and Adjunct Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Toronto, Ont.
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Nikhil Rajaram
Lecturer in the Division of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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    Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada CanMEDS framework key competencies for the role of health advocate

    KEY COMPETENCIESENABLING COMPETENCIES
    Physicians are able to ...
    • 1. Respond to an individual patient’s health needs by advocating with the patient within and beyond the clinical environment

    • 1.1 Work with patients to address determinants of health that affect them and their access to needed health services or resources

    • 1.2 Work with patients and their families to increase opportunities to adopt healthy behaviour

    • 1.3 Incorporate disease prevention, health promotion, and health surveillance into interactions with individual patients

    • 2. Respond to the needs of the communities or populations they serve by advocating with them for system-level change in a socially accountable manner

    • 2.1 Work with a community or population to identify the determinants of health that affect them

    • 2.2 Improve clinical practice by applying a process of continuous quality improvement to disease prevention, health promotion, and health surveillance activities

    • 2.3 Contribute to a process to improve health in the community or population they serve

    • Reproduced from Sherbino et al. Copyright Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

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