Canada has a long history of family medicine. The analysis and introduction of the Canadian training system of family physicians focus on the description of the"4 + 4 + 2"training pattern, full-time education in institutions of higher learning and professional norm training of resident physicians. Through many layers, Canada improves its training system of family physicians, continuous professional development, promotion and implementation of a series of strict standards to ensure the high quality of primary health care. Using the successful experience of Canada's family medical education, with the combination of domestic situation, the paper discusses and compares the features, teaching and organizing patterns and faculty sizes of family physicians training between the two countries. The advantages of the Canadian system show in the following aspects:firstly, clear training steps, target and approaches. Secondly, supportive the college of family physicians of Canada (CFPC), organized government 's program, university training and helpful cooperation.Thirdly, excellent family medical students resources, ample and committed faculty resources, and favourable conditions for family medicine development. The training features of Canadian family physicians lie in the structural integrity and continuity, starting from medical school's education, and focusing on the training for the normalization of resident physicians of family medicine, and through continuing medical education connecting education and training with lifelong career. In contrast, the realization of training target of domestic family physicians and rational development of family medicine still faces challenges. Learning from the successful experience and state-of-the-art education ideas of Canadian family physicians training system is conducive to the construction and improvement of the domestic system with Chinese characteristics and means significantly to easing the urgent demand of professional family physicians in community health services.
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