Where next for canadian family medicine?

In 1966, two formal training programs in family medicine were launched in Canada, with a total of three residents. Now there are 16 programs with almost 700 residents. There are three current educational trends in family medicine: increased flexibility of the curriculum; increased emphasis on self-directed learning, and increased amounts of office and community based training.The issues to be faced are:1. the necessity of assisting each undergraduate to make an appropriate career choice;2. the improvement of working relationships with other clinical departments;3. the need for improved methods of educating the educators;4. the development of research and scholarship within academic departments;5. the need for agreement on a core curriculum;6. the need to find a solution to questions surrounding licensure.