Community views of family medicine education
Description
Identifying Curriculum Priorities in Family Medicine through Patient Engagement
This participatory research project engages community members in Côte-des-Neiges and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce to gather their perspectives on what family doctors need to know and be able to do to provide good care in these communities. This study is part of a commitment of McGill University’s Department of Family Medicine to extend the training of family doctors to make sure they can better serve their patients. In group sessions, participants will create fuzzy cognitive maps to portray their ideas on what family doctors need to know and should be able to do to provide good care in this community. Informed by the maps, mappers and other members of the same communities will participate in a member checking session for each neighborhood to consider what the most relevant elements are for a family doctor curriculum in general and on three specific topics: addictions and mental health, home and long-term care, and health equity. The results will inform the design of the curriculum, together with those from previous studies that incorporate perspectives of doctors, students, and international experts.
Research Settings: Canada
Dates: 2026
Partners:
- McGill Family Medicine Education Research Group
Principal investigator: Keith Todd, Iván Sarmiento, Neil Andersson