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Southwest Middlesex Health Centre, Mount Brydges

TRAINING SITE/PRACTICE DESCRIPTIONSouthwest Middlesex Health Centre, Mount Brydges

Southwest Middlesex Health Centre (SWMHC) is situated 25 kilometers from the centre of London in a scenic area of orchards and farmland near Mount Brydges, Ontario.
The clinic is staffed by four physicians who are associated with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. There is a strong emphasis on the team approach, with involvement of family practice nurses in patient care. There is a strong rural "hands-on", and culturally-sensitive flavour to the learning opportunities at SWMHC.
SWMHC is a family health organization and part of the Thames Valley Family Health Team.

PATIENT PROFILE

The centre serves people from the surrounding villages of Mount Brydges, Delaware, Komoka, and the First Nations communities of Oneida (Onyota'cka), Muncey and Chippewa. The population of the area provides a representative mixture typical of rural areas in Ontario. The ethnic diversity as well as the stability of the practice population provides a broad cultural and age range to challenge physicians who train at SWMHC.

INTERESTS OF FACULTY
  • Emergency medicine
  • Primary care procedures
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
  • Faculty to resident ratio: 1:2
  • Emergency medicine: Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital
  • Hospital care: Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital
  • Palliative care: Patients’ homes and Strathroy Middlesex General hospital
  • Obstetrics: Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital at a Family Practice Obstetric Clinic and in hospital
  • Elderly care: Office, nearby long-term care facilities
  • Procedural room on-site
  • House calls are part of regular patient care
  • Academic activities:
    • Teaching session every Wednesday morning
  • Mental health care: Residents may participate in care concurrently with psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse clinician
RESOURCES ON-SITE
  • Electronic Medical Records
  • Pharmacist and pharmacy
  • Dental clinic
  • Fully-equipped procedural room for office-based minor surgical procedures and casting
  • Laboratory services
  • X-ray facilities
  • Shared Mental Health Care Program: a psychiatrist and a nurse clinician provide on site consultations one and a half days a week
TYPICAL WEEK FOR RESIDENT

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
08:00 - 09:00 Hospital Rounds Hospital Rounds Hospital Rounds Hospital Rounds Hospital Rounds Hospital Rounds (for resident on-call) Hospital Rounds (for resident on-call)
09:00 - 10:00 Patients Emergency Teaching Patients or Nursing Home Patients
10:00 - 12:30 Patients Emergency Teaching Patients or Nursing Home Patients
13:30 - 17:00 Patients Teaching Weekend rounds & Patients Patients
PBLP = Problem-based learning program

OTHER INFORMATION FOR RESIDENTS

On-Call
  • Home call: 1 in 6 weeknights
  • 1 in 6 weekends
  • ER shifts in Strathroy Hospital
  • Hospital rounds cover orphan patients, hospital/hospitalist done as 3-week rotation in 16-week block
Information about Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital
http://www.mhalliance.on.ca/Your_Hospital
http://www.mhalliance.on.ca/Your_Hospital/About_Strathroy_Middlesex_General_Hospital


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