Postgraduate Training In Family Medicine At McMaster University And In West Scotland

The experience of residents in family medicine at McMaster University is compared with that of vocational trainees in the West of Scotland, by means of a time-log diary used for two weeks towards the end of their fulltime attachment in family practice. Trainees in the West of Scotland see far more patients, but have much less supervision than their counterparts at McMaster. The findings are discussed in the context of postgraduate training for family medicine in Canada and the United Kingdom.