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Direct Observation Policy

This policy outlines the necessary requirements for the observation of residents conducting patient care activities during family medicine training blocks.

Each resident must have 4 or more documented direct observations per 4 weeks of family medicine block time (this excludes elective family medicine rotations)

This totals to at least 32 documented direct observations over the 2 years of residency, or 16 per year

Each resident must have at least 2 electronically recorded and documented direct observations over the 2 years of residency, or at least 1 per year.

These recorded and documented direct observations can be counted towards the total number of documented direct observations in # 1
Only the documentation of these electronically recorded direct observations will be retained. The electronic recording of a resident-patient encounter will be promptly destroyed after a resident has received feedback from the evaluator of the encounter.

Each direct observation must be:

Documented in hard copy or electronically using an accepted evaluation form(s) by the Postgraduate Education Committee
Signed by the resident and evaluator

Any documentation of direct observations (if not recorded electronically) will be retained at the resident’s primary family medical centre where he/she trains until the resident successfully completes residency training or is discharged from the program.

A tally of the total number of direct observations completed for each resident will be submitted via the One45 electronic evaluation system at the 1-month and 4-month formal resident evaluation during each year’s family medicine block rotation.

Last reviewed and approved by Postgraduate Education Committee April 2012