Interprofessional

The new thinking in healthcare is centred around exercise and wellness as a means to prevent and manage chronic diseases. But many Canadian communities still don't have basic access to fitness, wellness and healthy food resources.

The document discusses seven key CanMEDS-FM roles: the family medicine expert, communicator, collaborator, leader, health advocate, scholar and professional—defining each in the context of Indigenous tradition.

Whether being used to treat asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory inhalers have very high nonadherence rates at 30%-to-70%.