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Byron Family Medical Centre, London

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Southwest Middlesex Health Centre, Mount Brydges

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Tavistock Family Health Network, Tavistock

Ilderton

Windsor Program Curriculum

Windsor Family Health Centre

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Maitland Valley Family Medical Centre, Goderich

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Windsor Program Curriculum

Features of our Windsor Program

Training in urban and suburban community practices
Ample elective opportunities during and outside of family medicine block time with teaching faculty who have a wide variety of special interests
Experience interdisciplinary care while working with nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists

The Windsor program has an integrated 2-year curriculum. There are electronic medical resources for residents, including computer and internet access, and standard medical resources in each core Family Medicine training site.

PGY1 Year

Rotation	Duration	Location / Notes
Family Medicine	16 weeks	Assigned family practice
Family Medicine - selective	4 weeks	Family practice – either assigned family practice or a different practice
Family Medicine - elective	8 weeks	Family practice with special interest or elective choice
Pediatrics	4 weeks	Default rotation: -Pediatric Clinical Teaching Unit in Windsor* Other choices (depending on availability): -Pediatric Emergency at London Health Sciences Centre -Community Pediatrics in St. Thomas* -Community Pediatrics in Chatham* -Community Pediatrics in Stratford*
Obstetrics/Gynecology	4 weeks	Default rotation: -Windsor* Other choices (depending on availability): -London Health Sciences Centre -Grand River Hospital in Kitchener* -Chatham-Kent Health Alliance* -Owen Sound Hospital* -Bluewater Health in Sarnia*
General Surgery	4 weeks	Default rotation: -Windsor* Other choices (depending on availability): -London Health Sciences Centre -St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital* -Stratford General Hospital* -Chatham-Kent Health Alliance* -Owen Sound Hospital*
Medicine	4 weeks	Default rotation: -Hospital general internal medicine clinical teaching unit and ambulatory experience in Windsor* Other Choices: -Hospital General Internal Medicine Clinical Teaching Unit at London Health Sciences Centre -Chatham-Kent Health Alliance* -Stratford General Hospital*
Medicine - Geriatrics	4 weeks <	Default rotation: -Leamington* Choices: -London Health Sciences Centre (NorthEnd Consults or Acute Care of the Elderly unit) -Parkwood Hospital -London Long-term Care Rotation
Medicine - selective	4 weeks	Choices: -Hospital General Internal Medicine Clinical Teaching Unit at London Health Sciences Centre -Ambulatory G.I.M. at London Health Sciences Centre -Ward Cardiology at London Health Sciences Centre -Hospital general internal medicine clinical teaching unit OR ambulatory (office and clinic) experience in Windsor* -Chatham-Kent Health Alliance* -St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital* -Stratford General Hospital* -Owen Sound Hospital*

*=community hospitals
†For palliative care rotation requirements, please see:http://www.familymedicineuwo.ca/PostGrad/Handbook/PalliativeCurriculum.aspx

PGY2 Year

Rotation	Duration	Location / Notes
Family Medicine	16 weeks	Assigned family practice
Rural Family Medicine	8 weeks	Various locations available (http://www.familymedicineuwo.ca/residents/rural_family_medicine.html)
Obstetrics/Gynecology	4 weeks	Default rotation: -Windsor* Locations: -London Health Sciences Centre -St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital* -Grand River Hospital in Kitchener* -Chatham-Kent Health Alliance* -Owen Sound Hospital*
Core selective	4 weeks	Choices: -OB/Gyn (with associated choices) -Adult emergency medicine (with associated choices) -Women's Health rotation in London -Palliative Care in London or in Windsor* -ICU at London Health Sciences Centre, -Community Pediatrics in various locations
Adult emergency	4 weeks	Default rotation: -Windsor* Choices: -London Health Sciences Centre -St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital* -Chatham-Kent Health Alliance*
Electives	16 weeks	Anywhere in Ontario; maximum 4 weeks of out-of-Ontario elective allowed

*=community hospitals
†For palliative care rotation requirements, please see:http://www.familymedicineuwo.ca/PostGrad/Handbook/PalliativeCurriculum.aspx

Other mandatory requirements for completion of residency

Residency project

Choices: clinical audit, case report, clinical research project, comprehensive literature review, major essay, other (requires approval from family medicine preceptor)
Resident will present project either as a poster or presentation

Academic program

Every Wednesday afternoon (on or off-service) will be protected for completion of the academic program
Must complete a minimum number of credits; minimum credit requirements exist for certain topics to ensure full coverage of topics to be learned
Credits can be accumulated via self-directed learning or attending pre-scheduled teaching sessions on Wednesday afternoons
Activities are logged online in order to receive credits
Participation in Behavioural Medicine and Ethics Curriculum

Procedures and obstetrics delivery log

Allows residents to track their own learning
Helps accomplish delivery targets

Family medicine-obstetrics requirement

All residents must do a minimum of 4-week experience with a family physician who practices intrapartum obstetrics.
Residents have the following options to fulfill this requirement:

Complete their PGY2 rural family medicine rotations with a preceptor who practices intrapartum obstetrics
Use either their PGY1 family medicine selective, PGY1 family medicine elective or PGY2 electives to do a 4-week rotation with a family physician who practices intrapartum obstetrics.