Family Medicine Obstetrics

The Family Medicine Obstetrical Program is a Category 2 Enhanced Skills Program designed to offer choice within training so that PGY3 residents can craft experiences and gain skills to meet their own future practice needs.

Residents will learn how to balance various aspects of their practices, including changing focus and working in different locations. They will gain confidence and skill to work to enhance the capacity for comprehensive care and to support continuity of care in their communities.  Residents will be equipped to integrate their obstetrical skills training into comprehensive family practices and deliver community-based primary care.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Positions available: Two, six-month positions available

Learning experiences offered

Antepartum:

  • Experience in antepartum delivery of care in Family Medicine models
  • Management of common complications and presentations
  • Opportunity for experiences working with antepartum patients with substance use disorder and perinatal addiction

Intrapartum:

  • Admit and manage labor and delivery of low risk and “medium risk” singleton pregnancies
  • Management of common urgent and emergent presentations
  • Exposure to a variety of intrapartum decision-making strategies
  • Vacuum/Instrumental delivery
  • First assist Cesarean Section delivery

Pediatric and newborn experience:

  • Hospital care of infant including complications (hypoglycemia, hyperbilirubinemia, NAS, NOWS) and resuscitation (attend NRT calls)

Selectives:

  • Perinatal addiction
  • LARC/contraception
  • Early Pregnancy Clinic
  • Medical or surgical abortion
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • OB-Medicine

HOW TO APPLY

Category 2:

  1. Save and fill out the Category 2 Enhanced Skills Application Form (PDF)
  2. Submit your completed application, along with your CV and letter of intent to fmpgy3@mcmaster.ca
  3. Ensure that the subject line of your application email follows this format: “Last name, First name – 20XX/20XX Application” (please indicate the academic year you are applying for).
  4. Request that your Program/Site Director and two referees send their letters directly to us at fmpgy3@mcmaster.ca. If you have any questions, please contact fmpgy3@mcmaster.ca