Dedication to community and personal experience are what drive the first students enrolled in the .
Many students say their own history with family physicians 카지노 게임 컬렉션 or lack thereof 카지노 게임 컬렉션 is what attracted them to the unique model for medical education, a first-in-Canada program specifically designed to address the shortage of family doctors.
Bronte Murcar-Evans' family doctor closed their practice when she was 21, which left her 카지노 게임 컬렉션feeling completely lost카지노 게임 컬렉션 and disconnected from the health system.
When Hafsah Sheikh카지노 게임 컬렉션s family immigrated to Canada from Dubai in 2014, their doctor offered the 카지노 게임 컬렉션first connection카지노 게임 컬렉션 to their new community and country, offering guidance on everything from vaccines to where to buy groceries.
Mina Jordanides suffered a sports injury in high school and needed an X-ray. Lacking a family doctor meant an eight-hour overnight stint in the ER at an overburdened Toronto hospital for a procedure that only needed a quick referral to a clinic.
The three aspiring doctors are entering their second year in the new MD Family Medicine Program, launched in 2023. This fall, they are joined by 20 new, first-year students at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s satellite campus at Lakeridge Health in Oshawa.
One of the hallmarks of their education is hands-on experience shadowing family doctors.
Throughout the six-year program, students are embedded in early workplace experiences in urban centres and small communities across the Durham Region and southeastern Ontario, including a weekly mentorship and a month-long rural community placement. Their training program also benefits from the wide range of medical facilities that are part of the Lakeridge Health system, including five hospitals.카지노 게임 컬렉션Students complete카지노 게임 컬렉션seven weeks of hands-on family medicine training in their first year alone, compared to just 10 weeks over the entire four years of a traditional MD program.
Students say that clinical experience allows them to apply what they카지노 게임 컬렉션ve learned in the classroom as they interact with and help diagnose actual patients.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I've had the opportunity to practice hands-on skills that you need to develop as a physician 카지노 게임 컬렉션 skills you can only get better at by doing,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Murcar-Evans. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Things like listening to hearts, listening to lungs, examining newborn babies.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Learning soft skills is also key to the students카지노 게임 컬렉션 clinical experience, including how to navigate difficult conversations with patients, says Liam Rautu, who also serves as the class president. 카지노 게임 컬렉션In real life, patients come in with a lot of information. Being able to decipher what is pertinent and what is not, and being able to synthesize that to form an effective plan and evaluation is a skill in-and-of itself.카지노 게임 컬렉션
The program emphasizes the unique role family physicians play in our communities, including social accountability, assessing social determinants of health, and health care advocacy. Students saw that special patient-doctor relationship firsthand in their clinical work.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I think the biggest lesson I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve learned is the importance and the value that patients and families place in their family doctor,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says student Laura Vresk. 카지노 게임 컬렉션They recognize that their family doctor knows their history and considers all facets of their health and wellness.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Students say one thing has been crucial to their learning experience: the prominent presence of practicing family physicians as faculty, curricular leads, mentors, and preceptors. 카지노 게임 컬렉션What really stands out are the faculty and tutors,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Vresk says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션They are all family doctors with experience in many different facets of family medicine.카지노 게임 컬렉션
For Murcar-Evans, case-based learning in small groups is another cornerstone of the curriculum. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Everything you카지노 게임 컬렉션re learning is put into context,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says of the self-directed learning sessions. 카지노 게임 컬렉션For example, we were studying a case of heart failure, and we learned about the anatomy and function of the heart, and we helped relate it to what the patient was experiencing.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Their cases often translate into real-life scenarios with patients in their clinical work, she adds. At the end of the day, those interactions are at the heart of family medicine.
They are what brought Rautu to the program to begin with. After his undergraduate degree at Western 카지노게임사이트, he worked in a family clinic as a medical office assistant and was inspired by doctors카지노 게임 컬렉션 deep connections with their patients. Meanwhile, Vresk worked as a clinical dietitian on a multidisciplinary team for 15 years and was drawn to family medicine카지노 게임 컬렉션s comprehensive approach to care.
For the program카지노 게임 컬렉션s students, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s all about having a long-term impact on people, families, and communities.
카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s about forming meaningful relationships with patients,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Jordanides says: seeing young patients grow up, families evolve, and people go through different phases of their lives.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I really want to make a long-term contribution and interact with my community카지노 게임 컬렉션 where I'm able to follow and serve people at different stages of their lives,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Sheikh says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션And I feel that family medicine truly integrates those two goals.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In the immediate future, the passion and commitment of these students will continue to benefit patients as they train. In a few short years, their specialized training will be invaluable as graduates enter the workforce 카지노 게임 컬렉션 helping ease a critical shortage on the frontlines of our health care system.
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