PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Time available: One 12-month position

Learning experiences available:

• Medical Detox (inpatient)
• Hospital Consult Service (inpatient)
• Residential Treatment, including Concurrent Mood/Anxiety/Trauma Disorders (inpatient)
• Opiate Agonist Clinic (outpatient)
• Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinic (outpatient)
• Harm Reduction and Safer Supply Clinic (outpatient)
• Elective with relevance for addictions medicine, e.g., pain medicine, infectious disease, public health, psychiatry, psychotherapy, hepatology, perinatal addiction medicine, pediatric/youth addiction medicine
• Scholarship/advocacy/policy block

Mandatory longitudinal primary care experience (one half day a week): A mandatory primary care experience with a primary Family Medicine preceptor is expected during a second protected half-day. This experience will be for 12 months during the PGY3 program. Because an overarching goal of the program is to develop family physicians that have additional expertise in addiction medicine, this continuity experience is mandated to maintain the PGY3 resident’s competency and skills in the other areas of general family medicine during this training year.

Clinical Training Sites: The PGY-3 Addictions Medicine program is based out of McMaster’s Waterloo Regional Campus, in close collaboration with inpatient recovery and psychiatric treatment providers (Homewood Health Centre, Guelph), community addictions medicine providers in Waterloo region (e.g., RAAM, OAT and harm reduction clinics), and hospital-based detox and inpatient consult services in Kitchener and Hamilton (Grand River Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital).

SAMPLE SCHEDULE