Teaching home care to family medicine residents.
A growing elderly population suffering from chronic and debilitating diseases, the rising cost of institutional care, and increasing demand from patients for home visits indicate that home care will become a more important part of family physicians' practice in the future. We describe a model for teaching family medicine residents how to provide home services.
Boillat
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Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal.
Boulet
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Poulin de Courval
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