Background Focused practice within family medicine may be increasing globally, but there is
limited research on the factors contributing to decisions to focus practice. Aim To examine …

Purpose Physicians of all specialties are more likely to live and work in urban areas than in
rural areas. Physician availability affects the health and economy of rural communities. This …

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore family medicine graduates' attitudes
and perspectives on modifiable and unmodifiable factors that influenced their scope of …

Objective To develop claims‐based measures of comprehensiveness of primary care
physicians (PCP s) and summarize their associations with health care utilization and cost …

Background There is little evidence to show what scope of practice (SOP) means from the
point of view of family physicians, how family physicians think about their SOP as it changes …

Abstract Background In Canada, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)
introduced Competency Based Medical Education to prepare and train family medicine …

Abstract Background and Objectives: The number of family physicians providing obstetric
deliveries is decreasing, but high numbers of new graduates report they intend to include …

Family physicians' scope of practice is declining despite being well prepared to provide a
range of clinical services. To evaluate whether this is a new phenomenon, we compared the …

Introduction: Most family physicians do not provide abortion care, despite an apparent
alignment between the defined values of family medicine and provision of abortion in …

This paper reflects a vision of how family medicine residency training will be redesigned to
prepare graduates to meet the health care needs of their patient populations and regional …