title: Family medicine training by distance education.
abstract: A postgraduate programme is developed to provide Family Medicine training to practising General Practitioners. The programme provides physicians with didactic material by distance education while enhancing clinical competence through face-to-face sessions in ambulatory clinics. Assessment of participating physicians is based on the responses to distance education assignments, case presentations during clinical sessions, clinical examinations at the end of year 2 and the defense of a research project in year 3. Initial programme evaluations demonstrate that the distance education format is successfully incorporated in the discipline of Family Medicine postgraduate training.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica. pauline.williamsgreen@uwimona.edu.jm
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Williams-Green
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matthews
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McKenzie
mesh_terms: D001460:Barbados; D020375:Education, Distance; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica; D012577:Schools, Medical; D014300:Trinidad and Tobago