Educational tool for hospital-based training in family medicine [Outil pédagogique pour la formation en médecine familiale en milieu hospitalier]

摘要

Hospitalists are educators in many teaching institutions throughout North America, and they are a vital part of the medical training system. In Canada, this role is not yet clearly defined, as 90% of practising hospitalists are trained as family medicine specialists. Once they begin working as hospitalists, it becomes unclear whether they are teaching internal medicine or family medicine in a hospital setting when they are assigned students. In addition, most universities have not set up full medical teaching units for hospitalist services in the same way they have with general or specialty internal medicine. Now that the College of Family Physicians of Canada's Triple C curriculum includes a call for training by family medicine doctors, there is a new opportunity for innovative teaching for inpatient care, both by family medicine hospitalists and family medicine physicians who maintain acute care practices.