Kitchener-Waterloo

Program Highlights

• Emphasis on each resident’s personal goals/interest, with ability to focus your learning by utilizing horizontal electives, as well as multiple elective and selective blocks in second year. Customizable program with integrated blocks in 1st & 2nd year to incorporate these interests. 
• Diverse opportunities in clinics that were created with the intent to further residency learning including FM obstetrics, outpatient pediatric clinic, anticoagulation clinic, hypertension clinic, sports medicine, women’s health, mental health, refugee health, memory clinic and more. 
• One-to-one, consistent preceptor for the two years of residency.
• Inter-professional team-based care and education.
• Clinical teaching opportunities with undergraduate medical students.
• Our program and administrative staff are flexible, and committed to assisting each individual resident in the program.

Education Experience

• Enthusiastic preceptors providing one to one learning in the clinic, who are also active members in the community sites, providing additional opportunities to learn alongside them in multiple settings including inpatient hospital, long term care, ER setting and many more.
• Preceptors have a variety of areas of interest, including: primary memory care, new models of primary care, primary care research, digital health & eHealth, care of the elderly
• As the primary residency learner group at our associated hospital sites, residents have the unique time and opportunity to build interprofessional relationships with our specialists. 
• Weekly academics sessions covering the CFPC priority plus topics, mental health and behavioural science, as well as quality improvement initiatives.
• Many clinics have multidisciplinary providers working within a family health team offering the opportunity to work with nurse practitioners, social workers, dietitians, pharmacists, and physician assistants.