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The response from Dr. Blais addresses an important aspect of the CFPC’s new Practice Management tool – Practice Management Prep (PM Prep) – that would likely benefit from some additional context. PM Prep is intended to be used in addition to the existing practice management curriculum currently being offered in residency programs and by other stakeholder organizations in Canada.
As Dr. Schipper noted, PM Prep was developed in response to feedback from new-in-practice physicians that the business side of running a family practice, such as managing finances, medical-legal questions, and contract negotiations, posed the greatest challenge, and they wanted more training in those areas during residency.When looking to address these gaps, the CFPC first sought to understand what was already being done as part of residency training for practice management. All programs reported practice management training being delivered in some capacity over the two years of residency, often in concert with key stakeholder organizations including Joule and the CMPA. However, despite the existing training, early in practice family physicians continued to report that they felt unprepared for practice management, and that they were often unaware of the resources available to them, or that the time required to identify and locate necessary resources posed a significant barrier to accessing resources once they were in practice.
When the working group consulted Program Directors,...
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I read the Presidents Message on Practice Management by Dr.Shirley Schipper with great interest. I applaud the initiative that is an important one for a neglected topic for Family Medicine Residents as they prepare for family medicine practice.
However if someone reading this article without prior knowledge of what has taken place for teaching practice management to Family Medicine Residents at the various Canadian Family Medicine Programs in the new millennium may get the wrong impression. They may think it was not taught or it was not a priority at the various family medicine residency programs across Canada prior to this initiative. This is not the case.
In December, 2001 Dr.Paul Humphries was the director of Postgraduate Education for the Family Medicine Residency program at the University of Alberta and being a bit of a visionary he saw the need for Practice Management to be taught to the Family Medicine Residents at the U of A. Knowing my passion for teaching medical students and Family Medicine Residents about Family Medicine and especially Practice Management he asked me to be the Coordinator of Practice Management Education for the Family Medicine Residency program at the U of A. I continued fulfilling this role until 2018 when the the new initiative occurred and my position was dissolved.
With the aid of a great support staff and with the support of the faculty at the U of A in the department of Family Medicine we successfully presented a 2 d...
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