Literature

Position Papers

• Delivery of Essential Surgery by Family Physicians (2020)
• Final Report from the Banff Summit on Rural Surgery and Operative Delivery (2016)
  
• • CAGS Position Statement Rural and Remote Communities
    
  • Backgrounder: Networking
    
  • Backgrounder: Operative Delivery
    
  • Backgrounder: Organization for Action
    
  • Backgrounder: Credentialing
• GPs with enhanced surgical skills : A questionable solution (2015)
• Response to GPs with Enhanced Surgical Skills, Kornelsen J, (2016) and Friesen R, (2016)

• Joint Position Paper on Rural Surgery and Operative Delivery (2015)
•  Sustaining rural maternity and surgical care: Lessons learned (2016)

• Joint Position Paper on training for rural family physicians in anesthesia (2001)
• Joint Position Paper on training for rural family practitioners in advanced maternity care skills and caesarean section (1999)
  
• Position Paper on Training for Family Physicians in General Surgery (1999)

Training for ESS Physicians

• CFPC Competencies for ESS 
• CFPC Competencies for OSS
• Essential Surgical Skills Curriculum: A partnership to build capacity in surgical care in the lowest resource settings (2020)
• Learner's experiences of an Enhanced Surgical Skills Training Program for Family Physicians (2018) 
  
• A Competency-Based Curriculum for Training Rural Family Physicians in Operative Delivery. (2017) 
• Certificate of Added Competence for Enhanced Surgical Skills- It's about out privileges. (2017)
• A Proposal for the Curriculum and Evaluation for Training Rural Family Physicians in Enhanced Surgical Skills. (2015)
• General Practitioner Surgery: Anyone Interested? (2015)
• The Experience of GP Surgeons in Western Canada: The Influence of Interprofessional Relationships in Training and Practice (2013)
• GP surgeons’ experiences of training in British Columbia and Alberta: a case study of enhanced skills for rural primary care providers (2012)
• A Proposal for Training Family Physicians in General Surgery Skills (2006)

Networks and Coaching

• An evidence based program for rural surgical and obstetrical network (2018)
• Building rural surgery networks: An evidence-based approach to service delivery and evaluation (2016)
• Why Canada needs networks to provide rural surgical care, including family physicians with enhanced surgical skills (2015)
• The Continuum of Coaching: Opportunities for Surgical Improvement at All Levels (2015)
• Taking a chance or playing it safe: Reframing Risk Assessment Within the Surgeon’s Comfort Zone (2015)
• Coaching Surgeons: Is Culture Limiting Our Ability to Improve? (2015)
• Clinical Coaching: Literature Review (2014)
• Peer-coaching with Health Care Professionals: What is the Current Status of the Literature and What are the Key Components Necessary in Peer-coaching? A Scoping Review (2014)
• Personal Best (2011)

Rural Trauma Care

• Reducing rural injury deaths (2018)

Rural Global Surgery 

•  Surgical Task-Sharing to Non-specialist Physicians in Low- Resource Settings Globally: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2020)
  
• Improving Access to Safe Anesthetic Care in Rural and Remote Communities in Affluent Countries (2019) 
  
• “Go to the People. Live Among Them.” Reflections on Anesthetic and Surgical Care in Rural and Remote Regions (Editorial, 2019)
  
• Delivery of essential surgery by family physicians (2020)
  

Rural Generalist Medicine 

• Surgical Task-Sharing to Non-specialist Physicians in Low- Resource Settings Globally: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2020)
• Final Report on the Banff Summit on Rural Surgery and Operative Delivery (2016)
• Cairns Consensus Statement on Rural Generalist Medicine (2014)
  
• Final Report of the Task Force on the Future of General Surgery (2014)
• Report by the Royal College on Generalism (2013)
• The Expanding Role of the Rural Generalist in Australia – A Systematic Review (2007)
• Proceedings from the Invitational Meetings on Rural Surgical Services (2007)
• Report on the Invitational Meeting on the Research Agenda for Rural Surgical Services (2005)

Rural Obstetric Surgical Services

• Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality (2021) 
• Rural perinatal surgical services: Time for an alliance between providers (2016)
• Centralized or decentralized perinatal surgical care for rural women: a realist review of the evidence on safety (2016)
• Patients at the centre: Sustaining rural maternity – it’s all about the surgery! (2016)
• Optimal Perinatal Surgical Services for Rural Women: A Realist Review (2014)
• Policy Brief: Optimal Perinatal Surgical Services for Rural Women (2014)
• Forum on the Sustainability of Rural Maternity Services (2014)
• The outcomes of perinatal surgical services in rural British Columbia: a population-based study. (2013)
• Planning the optimal level of local maternity service for small rural communities (2009)
• Rural maternity care services under stress: the experiences of providers (2007)
• Is rural maternity care sustainable without general practitioner surgeons (2006)
• Does having cesarean section capability make a difference to a small rural maternity service? (2005)

Rural Surgical Services 

• Improving Access to Safe Anesthetic Care in Rural and Remote Communities in Affluent Countries (2019)
• “Go to the People. Live Among Them.” Reflections on Anesthetic and Surgical Care in Rural and Remote Regions (Editorial, 2019)  
• The role of family physicians with enhanced surgical skills in rural Canada (2016) – abstract is on p. S108 
• The Sustaining of Small Rural Surgical Services in BC (2013)
• GP Surgery and Anesthesia in BC (Presentation to the RCCBC by Dr S Iglesias, 2012)
• Rural surgery in British Columbia: is there anyone out there? (2008)
• Delivery models of rural surgical services in British Columbia (1996-2005): Are general practitioner-surgeons still part of the picture? (2008)
• Rural surgical services in two Canadian provinces (2006)
• Rural surgical programs in western Canada (2002)
• Role of the general practitioner in the delivery of surgical and anaesthesia services in rural western Canada (1995)
• Trends in small hospital medical services in Ontario (1998)
• Advanced skills by Canada’s rural physicians (1999)
• Role of the general practitioners in the delivery of surgical and anesthesia services in rural western Canada (1995)

Outcomes of Rural Surgical Services

• The outcomes of rural perinatal services in BC: a population‐ based study (2013)
• Colonoscopy procedures at a small rural hospital (2004)
• Appendectomies in rural hospitals: Safe whether performed by specialist or GP surgeons (2003)
• Colonoscopy by a family physician: A case series of 751 procedures (1997)
• Colonoscopy experience at a family practice residency: A comparison to gastroenterology and general surgery services (1997)
• Colonoscopy by a family physician: A nine year experience of 1048 procedures (1996)
• Outcomes of Cesarean sections performed by family physicians and training they received: A 15 year retrospective study (1995)
• Evolving colonoscopy skills in a rural family practice: the first 293 cases (1993)
• Esophagogastroduodenoscopy by family physicians: A national multisite study of 717 procedures (1990)