TY - JOUR T1 - Strengthening family medicine: a Canadian perspective and the RCGP International and Overseas Network JF - BJGP Open JO - Br J Gen Pract Open DO - 10.3399/bjgpopen17X101301 SP - bjgpopen17X101301 AU - Gina Agarwal Y1 - 2017/12/13 UR - http://bjgpopen.org/content/early/2017/12/12/bjgpopen17X101301.abstract N2 - Canada is a relatively young country and therefore its system of family medicine has relied heavily on the medicine practiced in other similar nations, particularly the UK. However, Canada has developed a set of 'Four Principles of Family Medicine'1 that would be relevant to GPs all over the globe. Canadian family physicians are taught that:‘... the family physician is a skilled clinician; family medicine is a community-based discipline; the family physician is a resource to a defined practice population; the patient–physician relationship is central to the role of the family physician’.Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Principles that resound whatever country one practices in! The learning to be gained from these principles, wherever they are practised, is something that the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) International and Overseas Network (ION) members could strive towards.In Canada, family physicians complete a … ER -