Third time's the charm.
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As I joined the other candidates at the 2012 Family Medicine Forum Convocation ceremony to celebrate our newly won CCFP designations, many thoughts went through my mind. The CCFP letters marked our successful passing of the Fall 2011 Certification Examination of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). Certification was an achievement to savour, but I also felt obliged to share my thoughts regarding the examination. Truth is, I failed it twice and passed on the third and final allowable attempt. Friends had forewarned me that at my age, 48, sitting any professional examination would not be easy. As a graduate trained in the United Kingdom and recruited to an academic family physician post in Canada, I already held membership and fellowship in the UK Royal College of General Practitioners, as well as fellowship in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Via reciprocal arrangements between the Colleges, if I had been a resident rather than a physician in practice, I could have obtained a CCFP without sitting the examination. As it was, for the 4.5 years I had been in Canada, my academic institute had repeatedly “encouraged” me to obtain the Canadian certification, so that I would be aligned with the other (locally trained) faculty in the department. I was ambivalent about being a candidate for an examination that I had been teaching residents how to pass, until I received a letter saying that my contract renewal was conditional upon my successful achievement of the CCFP. Reluctantly, I applied to sit the examination, thinking that it would be no different than taking a driving test after 25 years of road experience. But, as it turned out, I was wrong.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
دوره 59 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013