What are CanMEDS FM roles?

The CanMEDS roles and the associated key competencies are fairly generic and lend themselves to revisions that would serve the needs of family medicine. The CanMEDS 2005 structure includes seven physician roles: Medical Expert, Communicator, Collaborator, Manager, Health Advocate, Scholar and Professional.

What is professionalism CanMEDS?

CanMEDS describes professionalism as composed of three core competences: a physician must be able to (1) deliver highest quality care with integrity, honesty and compassion, (2) exhibit appropriate personal and interpersonal professional behaviours and (3) practise medicine ethically consistent with the obligations of …

Can Med characteristics?

Eight specific physician roles were identified: medical expert, communicator, collaborator, health advocate, learner, manager (“gatekeeper”), scholar, and “physician as person.” Educational strategies to help medical students learn to assume these eight roles were then incorporated into the curricula of the five …

Can Med roles scholar?

Physicians acquire scholarly abilities to enhance practice and advance health care. Physicians strive to master their domains of expertise and to share their knowledge. As lifelong learners, they implement a planned approach to learning in order to improve in each CanMEDS Role.

What is the overarching goal of the CanMEDS model?

The overarching goal of CanMEDS is to improve patient care. The CanMEDS model has been adapted around the world, both within and outside the health professions. Officially trademarked, the CanMEDS diagram and framework can be reproduced only with permission from the Royal College.

What is the framework for the CanMEDS Framework?

CanMEDS is a framework that identifies and describes the abilities physicians require to effectively meet the health care needs of the people they serve. These abilities are grouped thematically under seven roles. A competent physician seamlessly integrates the competencies of all seven CanMEDS Roles.

Is the CanMEDS Framework the RCPSC flagship document?

This is one of the ways our organization strives to meet the needs of the society and patients we serve. This is part of our ongoing purpose: better standards, better physicians, better care. For more than a decade the CanMEDS framework has been the RCPSC flagship standards document.