Resident Study Guide

Welcome to the McGill Family Medicine Resident Study Guide!

There is no "perfect" textbook in Family Medicine. The goal of this study guide is to serve as a "virtual" textbook centered around the College of Family Physicians Priority Topics and Key Features.

This project has been put together by Dr. Teresa Rudkin and Dr. Sarah Massoud. If you have any suggestions or interesting articles, or if you would like to get involved in developing new resident learning tools, please contact us!
We can be reached by e-mail: teresa.rudkin [at] mcgill.ca and sarah.massoud [at] mcgill.ca (please use subject line RESIDENT STUDY GUIDE)

FM Learner is another resource for residents, developed by Dr. Kenjey Chan, that includes notes on the 105 Topics. To visit, click here.

Clicking on the name of the each Priority Topic will take you to a PDF document that is a roadmap of the topic's Key Features with links to relevant and up to date articles that you can read to learn the content for that Key Feature. You DO NOT NEED to read every article to be prepared for the exam! We have included different styles of articles so that you can choose those that best suit your learning style. Content will continue to be updated on an ongoing basis. 

NB: you may be redirected to McGill myCourses (learning management system) to access some restricted documents. Only McGill residents or McGill Family Medicine Academic members can access these documents using their McGill Email and Password.

If you have any trouble entering myCourses using a mobile device, please use this direct link and log in before clicking on the links below.

 1. Abdominal Pain

 2. Advanced Cardiac Life Support

 3. Allergy

 4. Anemia

 5. Antibiotics

 6. Anxiety (Modified 2020)

 7. Asthma

 8. Atrial Fibrillation

 9. Bad News

10. Behavioural Problems (Modified 2020)

11. Breast Lump

12. Cancer

13. Chest Pain

14. Chronic Disease

15. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

16. Chronic Pain (New 2020)

17. Contraception

18. Cough

19. Counselling (Modified 2020)

20. Crisis (Modified 2020)

21. Croup

22. Deep Venous Thrombosis

23. Dehydration

24. Dementia (Modified 2020)

25. Depression (Modified 2020)

26. Diabetes

27. Diarrhea

28. Difficult Patient

29. Disability

30. Dizziness

31. Domestic Violence

32. Dyspepsia

33. Dysuria

34. Earache

35. Eating Disorders (Modified 2020)

36. Elderly

37. Epistaxis

38. Family Issues

39. Fatigue

40. Fever

41. Fractures

42. Gastrointestinal Bleed

43. Gender Specific Issues

44. Grief (Modified 2020)

45. Headache

46. Heart Failure (New 2020)

47. Hepatitis

48. Hyperlipidemia

49. Hypertension

50. Immigrants

51. Immunization

52. In Children

53. Infections

54. Infertility

55. Insomnia (Modified 2020)

56. Ischemic Heart Disease

57. Joint Disorder

58. Lacerations

59. Learning

60. Lifestyle

61. Loss of Consciousness

62. Loss of Weight

63. Low Back Pain

64. Meningitis

65. Menopause

66. Mental Competency (Modified 2020)

67. Multiple Medical Problems

68. Neck Pain

69. Newborn

70. Obesity

71. Osteoporosis

72. Pain (New 2020)

73. Palliative Care

74. Parkinsonism

75. PHA and Screening

76. Personality Disorder (Modified 2020)

77. Pneumonia

78. Poisoning

79. Pregnancy

80. Prostate

81. Rape, Sexual Assault

82. Rash (New 2020)

83. Red Eye

84. Renal Failure (New 2020)

85.  Schizophrenia (Modified 2020)

86. Seizures

87. Sex (Modified 2020)

88. Sexually Transmitted Infections

89. Shortness of Breath (New 2020)

90. Skin Disorders

91. Smoking Cessation

92. Somatization (Modified 2020)

93. Stress

94. Stroke

95. Substance Use and Addiction (Modified 2020)

96. Suicide (Modified 2020)

97. Thyroid

98. Trauma

99. Travel Medicine

100. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection

101. Urinary Tract Infection

102. Vaginal Bleeding

103. Vaginitis

104. Violent Patient

105. Well Baby Care