CBT Canada Information

CBT Canada offers a Certificate Program in medical CBT. About ?rd of primary care appointments are primarily psychiatric, and most other visits require some psychology to optimize outcomes. Unfortunately, few of today's primary care physicians had access to adequate CBT training in their medical school years. In April 1999, in preparation for the first Mainpro-C workshop on medical CBT, for what was then called the College of Family Physicians of Canada Annual Scientific Assembly (now known as Family Medicine Forum), CBT Canada unwittingly began the country's largest ongoing behavioural medicine educational needs assessment. Over the years since then, CBT Canada faculty have spent hundreds of days in small group dialogues while conducting workshops with family physicians coast-to-coast. In addition, faculty have analyzed attendees' pre-workshop needs assessments, post-workshop evaluations, and post-post-workshop self-reflection exercises-over 10,000 physician-created documents in total. The explicit and tacit understandings obtained from this 15 year study have enabled CBT Canada to create workshops highly customized for the needs of Canadian family physicians. This knowledge has been further operationalized in the Medical CBT Certificate Program.