Table 1.

Overview of academic activities

2-year rotating curriculum (Years A and B) 1 topic per month 2 academic half-days per month

Second Wednesday evening of every month Large group learning (approximately 90 first- and second- year family medicine residents) held centrally at the University of Alberta 3 1-hour didactic sessions 1 specialist and at least 1 family physician (ideally) Quarterly evidence-based literature review by family physician

Fourth Thursday morning of every month Small group learning (approximately 15 to 20 first- and second-year family medicine residents) held at each of 5 teaching sites throughout Edmonton and supervised by an on-site faculty member 1-hour educational module10 that is relevant to the monthly topic; a first-year resident leads the activity 1-hour critical appraisal of a journal article that is related to the topic of the month; a second-year resident leads the activity and selects and distributes the article 1-hour short-answer management problems from questions developed and maintained by faculty (some questions modeled after the self-learning modules of the College of Family Physicians of Canada)