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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2023

Snapshot of family medicine around the world: Introducing the global family medicine website.

Neil Arya, Michael Geurguis, Celine Vereecken-Smith, David Ponka

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Family and community medicine workforce training and practice in the Americas.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025
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  7. We are all connected.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Neil AryaFamily physician at and Founder and Director of the Centre for Family Medicine Refugee Health Clinic in Kitchener, Ont; Fellow at the Balsillie School for International Affairs in Waterloo, Ont; President of the PEGASUS (Peace, Global Health, Sustainability) Institute; Founding Director of the Office of Global Health at Western University in London, Ont; Scholar-in-Residence and Fellow at the International Migration Research Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo; and Assistant Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
Michael GeurguisMedical student at the University of Toronto in Ontario and a master's student in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Celine Vereecken-SmithThird-year medical student in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University.
David PonkaFamily doctor and Director of the Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine at the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ontario.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo develop an interactive, living map of family medicine training and practice; and to appreciate the role of family medicine within, and its effect on, health systems across the world. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE: A subgroup of the College of Family Physicians of Canada's Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine developed connections with selected international colleagues with expertise in international family medicine practice and teaching, health systems, and capacity building to map family medicine globally. In 2022, this group received support from the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine's Trailblazers initiative to advance this work.

methodsIn 2018 groups of Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ont) students conducted broad searches of relevant articles about family medicine in different regions and countries around the world; they conducted focused interviews and then synthesized and verified information, developing a database of family medicine training and practice around the world. Outcome measures were age of family medicine training programs and duration and type of family medicine postgraduate training. REPORT: To approach the question of how delivery of the family medicine model of primary care can affect health system performance, relevant data on family medicine were collated-the presence, nature, duration, and type of training and role within health care systems. The website

conclusionMapping family medicine around the world will allow researchers, policy makers, and health care workers to have an accurate picture of family medicine and its impact using relevant, up-to-date information. The group's next aim is to develop data on parameters by which performance in various domains can be measured across settings and to display these in an accessible form.

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Family PracticeInternship and ResidencyCanadaCapacity BuildingHumansPhysicians, Family

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PMID37172985
PMCPMC10177649

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