A curriculum for the times: an experiment in teaching health policy to residents in family medicine.
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Abstract
The Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., recently undertook a pilot project to familiarize residents in family medicine with physician-related health policy issues. The objective of the project was to ease the residents' transition into practice and to equip them to participate effectively in future policy debates. All first-year residents assigned to a 4-month clinical rotation in the Department of Family Medicine took part in the program, which consisted of 5 weekly 1-hour lecture and discussion sessions. The program was offered as one component of the 130-hour core curriculum for first-year residents. Participants evaluated the program as highly informative and extremely relevant to their career plans. The authors conclude that health policy is a subject that can be incorporated into the core curriculum of residency training programs.