Training Standards Statements of Family Medicine Postgraduate Training - A Review of Existing Documents Worldwide.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

For the effective and safe management of complex care needs for patients in community settings, high quality family medicine (FM) training programmes are needed. In less primary care oriented countries, training standards statements for FM postgraduate training are less commonly found. The aim of this study was to review international training standards statements in FM postgraduate training and to catalogue these statements to be used as a best practice standard guide for FM training programs in Germany.

Materials and methods

A structured three-tiered search was performed: a systematic literature search in MEDLINE®; a search of international indicator databases; and a search in grey literature, consisting of a survey of international experts and a search in "Go

SUBMITTER: Flum E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4961452 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature