[Hospital family medicine. Education in an urban university hospital center].
OBJECTIVE
To describe the patients residents see in one hospital's family medicine unit and to determine whether these patients resemble family medicine patients in other Quebec hospitals.


METHODS
Descriptive study.


METHODS
Urban teaching hospital.


METHODS
Patients 20 years and older who were admitted to the family medicine unit at Hôpital du St-Sacrement between April 1, 1999, and March 31, 2000, were compared with all patients admitted in general medicine to Quebec hospitals during this period.


METHODS
Sex, age, main diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, types of diseases, length of stay, number of consultations and specialties involved, referral after hospitalization.


RESULTS
Patients hospitalized in this unit were older, had more secondary diagnoses, and stayed in hospital slightly longer than patients hospitalized in general medicine in Quebec as a whole. Residents were, therefore, exposed to patients who were more medically complex.


CONCLUSIONS
Patients to whom residents were exposed resemble patients they will see in future hospital practice.
Maziade
Jean
J
l'Unité de médecine familiale du CLSC-CHSLD Haute-Ville-des-Rivières ainsi qu'au Départment de Médecine familiale de l'Université Laval à Québec, QC. jean.maziade@sss.gouv.qc.ca
Théorêt
Johanne
J
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011792:Quebec; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012737:Sex Factors; D014505:Urban Population