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Shared Canadian Curriculum in Family Medicine

    Description
    Description
    The Shared Canadian Curriculum in Family Medicine (SHARC-FM) is an open educational resource program based in Canada. Anchored in curricular objectives determined through research, SHARC-FM provides a growing matrix of peer-reviewed educational resources. All are fully open-access and free of charge. While focused on Canadian medical students training in family medicine, many of the resources will be helpful in developing countries. The resources are available on our website, sharcfm.ca. The manuscript describing the development of the project can be found at http://www.cfp.ca/content/cfp/63/4/e223.full.pdf.
    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    Educators meet annually to refine the topics and objectives, and to provide strategic guidance. The editorial board has the authority to make strategic and operational decisions.

    Educators and students develop learning resources in alignment with the objectives of SHARC-FM. These are subject to peer review. When items fully meet the concerns of reviewers, they are published on our website as open educational resources (OERs).

    Capacity

    Most of the capacity needed is faculty administration, and faculty and student content development time. While this can change from time to time, we have been able to build a variety of resources.<br />
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    We deliberately chose an open educational resource model early on so that any student or teacher anywhere around the world could use our materials free of charge. We will continue to use this OER model for the distribution of our growing resources. Most of our resources are in pdf form, enabling easy downloading and/or printing.

    Governed

    SHARC-FM is governed by an Editorial board. On the board are the lead editor, four other family medicine educators, and one medical student representative.<br />
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    SHARC-FM reports to both the Canadian Undergraduate Family Medicine Directors (CUFMED) and the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC).<br />
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    The members of the board are appointed jointly by CUFMED and the CFPC, with the exception of the medical student who is elected by their colleagues within the Section of Medical Students of the CFPC.

    Partners
    Canadian Undergraduate Family Medicine Directors (CUFMED)
    College of Family Physicians of Canada
    University of Calgary

    Goal 3

    Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

    Goal 3

    3.1

    By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
    3.1.1

    Maternal mortality ratio

    3.1.2

    Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

    3.2

    By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
    3.2.1

    Under-five mortality rate

    3.2.2

    Neonatal mortality rate

    3.3

    By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases

    3.3.1

    Number of new HIV infections per 1,000 uninfected population, by sex, age and key populations

    3.3.2

    Tuberculosis incidence per 100,000 population

    3.3.3

    Malaria incidence per 1,000 population

    3.3.4

    Hepatitis B incidence per 100,000 population

    3.3.5

    Number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical diseases

    3.4

    By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
    3.4.1

    Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease

    3.4.2

    Suicide mortality rate

    3.5

    Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol

    3.5.1

    Coverage of treatment interventions (pharmacological, psychosocial and rehabilitation and aftercare services) for substance use disorders

    3.5.2

    Alcohol per capita consumption (aged 15 years and older) within a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol

    3.6

    By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents
    3.6.1

    Death rate due to road traffic injuries

    3.7

    By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes

    3.7.1

    Proportion of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods

    3.7.2

    Adolescent birth rate (aged 10-14 years; aged 15-19 years) per 1,000 women in that age group

    3.8

    Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

    3.8.1

    Coverage of essential health services

    3.8.2

    Proportion of population with large household expenditures on health as a share of total household expenditure or income

    3.9

    By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
    3.9.1

    Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution

    3.9.2

    Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (exposure to unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) services)

    3.9.3

    Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning

    3.a

    Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate
    3.a.1

    Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older

    3.b

    Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all

    3.b.1

    Proportion of the target population covered by all vaccines included in their national programme

    3.b.2
    Total net official development assistance to medical research and basic health sectors
    3.b.3

    Proportion of health facilities that have a core set of relevant essential medicines available and affordable on a sustainable basis

    3.c

    Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States
    3.c.1

    Health worker density and distribution

    3.d

    Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks

    3.d.1

    International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity and health emergency preparedness

    3.d.2

    Percentage of bloodstream infections due to selected antimicrobial-resistant organisms

    Name Description
    open access educational resources (point of care tools, teaching cases, occasional virtual patient cases and youtube videos)
    expanded open access educational resources for teaching and learning in family medicine
    Financing (in USD)
    15000
    In-kind contribution
    e-learning development support from the University of Calgary
    Staff / Technical expertise
    Faculty members from all seventeen Canadian medical schools contributing to this project.
    Other, please specify
    annual funding noted above is from the College of Family Physicians of Canada
    Title Progress Status Submitted
    Partnership Progress 2018-12-17 On track
    False
    Action Network
    Higher Education Sustainability Initiative
    This initiative does not yet fulfil the SMART criteria.
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    Timeline
    01 November 2006 (start date)
    01 November 2026 (date of completion)
    Entity
    Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
    SDGs
    Geographical coverage
    Calgary, Canada
    Countries
    N/A
    Contact Information

    David Keegan, Associate Professor, Family Medicine; Associate Dean, Faculty Development