Grimsby | Owen Sound | Fergus | Collingwood | Mount Forest | Simcoe | |
Teaching site | Niagara | Owen Sound | Kitchener-Waterloo | Collingwood | Owen Sound | Brantford-Indigenous Health Hub |
Type of Practice | Community Practices / Family Health Teams | |||||
MRP | In-hospital care (1-5 patients per day on avg during FM), rural emergency care | Yes | ||||
Curriculum | partially integrated | block with opportunity for integration |
Block | |||
Number of Positions | 3 CMG | 2 CMG 1 IMG |
2 CMG | 4 CMG | 1 CMG 1 IMG |
1 CMG 1 IMG |
Population | 25,000 | 21,000 | 20,000 | 25,000 | 5,000 | 15,000 |
Preceptors | 8 | 23 | 21 | 35 | 5 | 24 |
Patients | 52 bed hospital with catchment area of 50,000
650 births per year and 25,000 ER visits per year |
160 bed hospital with catchment area of 160,000700 births per year and 36,000 ER visits per year |
55 bed hospital with catchment area of 35,000600 births per year and 25,000 ER visits per year |
72 bed hospital with catchment area of 45,000325 births per year and 30,000 ER visits per year w/ orthopaedics w/ proximity to Blue Mountain Resort |
28 bed hospital with catchment area of 15,00080 births per year and 12,000 ER visits per year |
106 bed hospital with catchment area of 60,000350 births per year and 30,000 ER visits per year |
Practice Profile | Full comprehensive family practices, hospital-based inpatient care; provide prenatal care, complete house calls, and palliative care at home and hospice | Family Practice MRP | Collegial medical staff group working out of multiple sites for family practice, ER, OB, Inpatient, surgical assists, nursing home experiences |
Family Practice MRP | Office, ER, inpatient care, OB, procedures, surgical assist, house calls, nursing home visits, coroner work, GP oncology | Family Practice MRP |
Special Interests | Obstetrical environment that supports midwives and family doctors, rural emergency medicine, GP anesthesia | Family Comprehensive act as MRP to inpatients | ER has catchment from several nearby urban areas, strong OB group practice with excellent teaching |
Family Comprehensive act as MRP to inpatients | Rural family medicine with full scope practice including MRP to inpatients | Long term and palliative care |
Practice Sites | Individual offices | FHT | FHT | Individual offices | FHT | FHT |
Education Experience | Longitudinal OB rotation, specialty rotations are done in St. Catharines including inpatient paediatrics, internal medicine, and emergency medicine | Comprehensive medicine | Live academic sessions in KW, including access to KW FM Conferences. Commuting to Guelph and Kitchener. |
Comprehensive medicine | Comprehensive medicine | Comprehensive medicine |
Program Highlight | Learner-centered environment that provides many opportunities to become competent as a full spectrum practice family physician in a rural community | Committed to providing residents with a well-balanced lifestyle — access to quality health care, education, making the most of fantastic waterways and trails |
Able to recruit / retain a good percentage of residents over the past decade |
Beautiful geographic region, busy small town based hospital |
Broad scope rural practice with OB and ER, in a Family Medicine run hospital |
Learner centered environment at both the Norfolk General and Brantford General hospitals, located on Southern Ontario’s “gold” coast |