GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF PROGRAM GOALS OF THE PROGRAM The goals of the Queen’s University Department of Family Medicine’s FM/EM (PGY-3) Program are to provide a third year program for family physicians: 1. to further develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to function competently and confidently in community hospital and other primary care emergency settings, 2. to be eligible for the College of Family Physicians of Canada Examination for the Certificate of Special Competence in Emergency Medicine, 3. to be able to take leadership roles in their communities in: emergency department administration and quality assurance, the development of local guidelines and protocols, local EMS and pre-hospital care and continuing education in emergency medicine
OBJECTIVES, LEARNING RESOURCES, EVALUATION The objectives of this Program are based on the four principles of Family Medicine: 1. The family physician is a skilled clinician. 2. The doctor patient relationship is central to the role of the family physician. 3. Family Medicine is based in the community. 4. The family physician is a resource to a defined practice population. These principles are described in three articles included in this Handbook. Queen’s third year program in Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine builds on the objectives and content of the previous two years of Family Medicine residency. This education is oriented towards developing family physicians capable of the complete range of primary care practice in small- and medium-sized communities. The objectives for residents are organized to reflect the four principles of Family Medicine. The objectives in this Handbook are in three groups: • Rotation Objectives (and their associated evaluation forms) that are organized by clinical rotation. • Educational Objectives, developed by the Program Directors of FM/EM Programs across Canada. In the case of the “Effective Clinician” principle, these objectives are further described through presentations (symptoms) and disorders (diseases, trauma, etc.).Although these objectives are not organized in sections reflecting clinical rotations, they should be used to guide learning within rotations, e.g., objectives relating to orthopedic topics can be isolated to focus on during that rotation. • Objectives for the didactic aspects of the Program, such as the various seminar series. The learning resources for achieving the objectives include the clinical rotations, seminars and other experiences that make up the Program. Evaluation of residents is partly reflected in the forms included in this Handbook and is based on the objectives and the four principles of Family Medicine. Evaluation of the Program includes feedback from residents (rotation evaluation forms are in Section Clinical Rotations and Evaluation forms) as well as through the activities of the FM/EM Program Committee, the Departmental and Faculty Postgraduate Education Committees and by accreditation of the Program by the CFPC.