The role of the family physician in hospital part 2: use of hospital privileges.

A questionnaire on the hospital involvement of family doctors was completed by the active staff members of the Department of Family Medicine at St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, in April, 1977. This paper is the second of four; the first dealt with the study's conception, design and methodology.This paper deals with the reasons why family doctors attend hospital, what they do there, how much time they spend there, and the use of hospital privileges, both attending and procedural. A discussion of the study's implications for general understanding of the family doctor's role, and necessary education for this role, concludes this section.Subsequent sections will give more detailed results of the family doctor's involvement in obstetrics and lastly the attitudes of family doctors toward their hospital environment.

The Role Of The Family Physician In Hospital Part 4: FPs' Attitudes Towards Their Hospital Role.

This fourth and final part of the report of a survey carried out at St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, examines the results from that portion of the questionnaire relating to attitudes of the family physicians surveyed. It was found that family doctors have strong ties to the hospital and see an association between the quality of community and hospital care and the maintenance of these hospital ties. Problems in clarifying and consolidating their role in hospital are identified and discussed, together with some implications concerning training programs in family medicine.

The role of the family physician in hospital part 3: obstetrics.

This is the third paper in a series of four on the part played by the family physician in a general hospital.Of 88 family physicians on active staff at St.Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, 56 did deliveries. Most of those practicing obstetrics did most of their own deliveries. As the procedures became more difficult, fewer doctors performed them. Most of the members were involved with routine prenatal care, and some with high risk prenatal care. The resons for not doing obstetrics varied, but obstetrics till seem to be a very important part of the family physician's activity within the hospital.

The role of the family physician in hospital.

Five family doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, completed a comprehensive survey of 88 active, associate and senior members of the Department of Family Medicine, detailing their activities in hospital, their attitudes toward the hospital, their actual and desired roles and their Department of Family Medicine.The study illustrates the changing role in hospital from procedure-orientation to patient advocate, and the resulting problems. These problems were mainly lack of communication skills and feeling impotent in dealing with the hospital power structure. Implications for family medicine training programs, continuing medical education programs and teaching and community hospitals are discussed in a series of four papers.