Summary
- Integrates all the CanMEDS‐FM roles in order to function effectively as generalists.
- Establishes and maintains clinical knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to meet the needs of the practice and patient population served.
- Demonstrates proficient assessment and management of patients using the patient‐centered method.
- Provides comprehensive and continuing care throughout the life cycle, incorporating preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions.
- Attend to complex clinical situations in family medicine effectively.
- Demonstrates proficient and evidence‐based use of procedural skills.
- Provides coordination of patient care, including collaboration and consultation with other health professionals and caregivers.
- Develops rapport, trust, and ethical therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
- Actively elicits and synthesizes information from, and perspectives of, patients and families, colleagues, and other professionals.
- Accurately conveys needed information and explanations to patients and families, colleagues, and other professionals.
- Develops a common understanding on issues, problems, and plans with patients and families, colleagues, and other professionals to develop, provide, and follow-up on shared plan of care.
- Conveys effective oral and written information.
- Maintains and enhances professional activities through ongoing self-directed learning based on reflective practice.
- Critically evaluates medical information, its sources, and its relevance to practice, and applies this information to practice decisions.
- Facilitates the education of patients, families, trainees, other health professional colleagues, and the public, as appropriate.
- Contributes to the creation, dissemination, application, and translation of new knowledge and practices.
- Participates in a collaborative team-based model with consulting health professionals in the care of patients.
- Maintains a positive working environment with consulting health professionals, health care team members, and community agencies.
- Engages patients or specific groups of patients and their families as active participants in their care.
- Contributes to the improvement of comprehensive, continuity-based, and patient-centered health care delivered in teams, organizations, and systems
- Engage in the stewardship of health care resources.
- Demonstrate collaborative leadership in professional practice to enhance health care.
- Manages career planning, finances, and health human resources in a practice.
- Responds to individual patient health needs and issues as a part of patient care.
- Responds to the health needs of the communities served.
- Identifies the determinants of health within their communities.
- Promotes the health of individual patients, communities, and populations.
- Demonstrates a commitment to patients, profession, and society through ethical practice.
- Demonstrates a commitment to patients, profession, and society through participation in profession-led regulation.
- Demonstrate a commitment to physician health and sustainable practice.
- Demonstrate a commitment to reflective practice.
Source: The College of Family Physicians of Canada: CanMeds-Family Medicine 2017: A competency framework for family physicians across the continuum
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