This collection contains articles, often unpublished, relevant to ESS family physicians. The threads we draw together here come from the literature on rural surgery and operative delivery programs, rural generalist medicine, education and training of ESS physicians, and related policy statements. Where appropriate, we have included the original contributions to this literature from our own Canadian researchers.

Position Papers

•  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 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
• 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 Generalist Medicine 

• 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

• 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)