[Basic] Skill of the week: Surgery

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by acrosome

Interestingly enough, Obstetrics is a fellowship that is available for Family Practice docs in some places, and such fellows are supposedly qualified to perform caesarean sections!

My family doctor is still doing family medicine for philosophical reasons, but she does Obstetrics part time at the local hospital. I don't know if in Canada that includes C-Section... but I can understand why they might get One Task Wonder training (or technique training) in C-Section in some systems - they're most likely to be on hand. In an urban environment this doesn't matter as much, but in more rural areas the family doctor is also the Ob/Gyn because there's no hospital around for miles and miles. Or even other doctors - although there are probably RNs and midwives.