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Overview
About the Program:听The 91社区 Mother and Child Enhanced Skills Program is a six-month clinical residency aimed at providing additional experience to family medicine graduates committed to including obstetrics and newborn care in their practice. The program allows family doctors to enhance their obstetrical skills and knowledge so that they are both confident and competent in the management of family practice obstetrical patients. The program has defined goals and objectives, but is flexible in order to provide the trainee with an opportunity to tailor the program to meet their self-identified learning needs and career goals.
The residency program is designed for family physicians who wish to develop enhanced skills within the complete spectrum of mother and infant health while maintaining and consolidating the competencies in general family medicine they acquired during their residency.
The six-month program is composed of two obstetrical intrapartum rotations, 1 neonatal intensive care rotation, and three maternal-child rotations.
Residents are invited to choose two or three profiles of interest to define the enhanced skills they aim to acquire during their maternal-child rotations.
The profiles:
- Teaching
- Physiological birth
- Vulnerable clientele
- Breastfeeding
- Pediatric care
- Women鈥檚 health
- Research
- Rural
At the end of the residency program, most residents are competent to act as a resource to other family physicians for mother and child health issues, including prenatal care, breastfeeding, newborn care, as well as pediatric and women鈥檚 health concerns.
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Program Highlights
- Duration: 6 months (start dates in either August or January)
- Curriculum: Residents will rotate through a variety of clinical settings including hospital birthing centers, NICU, outpatient clinics, and community settings. Throughout the six months, they will have protected time for one weekly continuity of care family medicine clinic supervised by their academic advisor. They will also have one academic half day per week where they will participate in didactic, hands-on, and group learning. The program includes the possibility to rotate in the urban and rural settings, as well as an optional Indigenous community health rotation. In addition, residents will be supported in the completion of a longitudinal scholarly project of their choosing.
- Clinical Rotations: 2-3 months in obstetrics, 1 month in Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU), 2-3 months in outpatient selective clinics in maternal child health, including experiences in prenatal care, high-risk obstetrics, pediatrics, breastfeeding, family planning, gynecology, ultrasound, La Maison Bleue, etc.
- Simulation Training: Residents will participate in three academic half days with simulation training in emergency obstetrical skills and procedures, fetal surveillance, and perineal repairs. Residents will also be certified in neonatal resuscitation (NRP) and have the opportunity to participate in MoreOB (AMPRO) workshops.
- Mentorship: Each resident will be matched with a family medicine obstetrics attending physician who will act as an academic advisor and mentor. They will also receive mentorship from various attendings for a scholarly project of their choosing.
Curriculum and Training
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Core Rotations and Location |
Periods |
Brief description of what the rotation entails |
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Obstetrics |
2-3 months |
Residents with work with obstetricians and family medicine obstetrics staff at a variety of 91社区- affiliated hospitals. |
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Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) |
1 month |
Jewish General Hospital. Including certification in NRP. |
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Maternal Child Health |
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Residents will rotate through a variety of outpatient selective clinics in maternal child health based on their stated interests and individual objectives. Clinics include experiences in prenatal care, high-risk obstetrics, pediatrics, breastfeeding, family planning, gynecology, ultrasound, La Maison Bleue, etc. 听 |
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Core Rounds and Teaching Sessions:
Residents will participate in one academic half day per week where they will participate in didactic, hands-on, and group learning on various topics including:
- Emergency Obstetrical Procedures
- Fetal Surveillance
- Perineal Repairs
- Public Health
- Indigenous Health
- Topics in Prenatal Care
- Pediatric Pearls
- Contraception
- Abortion Care
- Teaching and the development of SAMP exam questions
- Office Gynecology
- Substance Abuse in Pregnancy and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Journal Club and M&M Rounds
- Hospital Grand Rounds in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- NRP Certification
- ALARM Certification (can be arranged on an individual basis)
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Evaluations:听Residents will receive daily rotation feedback as well as overall clinical evaluations in the form of ITERs each month. In addition, each resident will be paired with a staff faculty advisor. Their role will be to meet on a bi-monthly basis to review the resident鈥檚 learning goals and completion of program benchmarks, as well as to provide guidance and an opportunity for reflection.
Application Process
Application Process:
Please refer to the following URL for application guidelines pertaining to the Mother and Child health program: /pgme/residency-programs/admissions/subspecialty-carms
Contact Information
- Program Director: Dr. Hannah Shenker
- Email: Hannahrachel.shenker [at] mcgill.ca
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- Program Administrator: postgrad.fammed [at] mcgill.ca (Alana Walsh-Ferland )
- Email: postgrad.fammed [at] mcgill.ca
- Phone: (514) 399-9126
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