Table 4.

Services most commonly provided by CMs: 72 of 154 (46.8%) CMs provided responses; more than 1 category of response was permitted.

CATEGORY	EXAMPLES	FREQUENCY N (%)
Direct patient care	Office visits, histories, physicals examinations, minor surgeries, periodic health examinations, smoking cessation counseling, outpatient urgent care, emergency medicine, alternative medicine, travel medicine, sexual medicine or counseling, general counseling	42 (58.3)
Public health	Population diagnostics, regional surveillance on health, morbidity and mortality, investigation of cases of notifiable disease and provision of follow-up and preventative interventions, public health environmental exposure assessment, tobacco reduction, chronic disease and injury prevention or control, advocacy, emergency coordination or preparedness	40 (55.6)
Academic work	Teaching medical students or residents, clinical or epidemiologic research, research and evaluation of modes of organization and health services, literature synthesis, critical appraisals	18 (25.0)
Consultation to health care workers, governments, or agencies	Telephone advice to physicians, public policy and position papers, expert advice to provincial working groups, nurses	13 (18.1)
Occupational health	Industrial health and safety programs	6 (8.3)

CM—community medicine specialist.