Information
for Residents and Medical Students
City of Thunder Bay Family Medicine Award
This award recognizes and rewards
local students who are studying medicine
in Canada and who plan to train as family
physicians and return to Thunder Bay
to practice upon the completion of their
training. The deadline for this award
is June 16, 2010.
Click here to download application
form.
What do Residents need to know?
Residents of The Canadian Shield (RoCS)
Residents of the Canadian Shield (RoCS) provides
two years of family practice training leading to certification
in family medicine from the College of Family Physicians
of Canada. The goal of the program is to prepare family physicians
with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes for practice
in Northern remote, and rural communities.
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Family Medicine PGY3
For those Family Medicine Residents who wish to further their knowledge and training in specific specialty areas NOSM PGY3 programs include Emergency, Anaesthesia, Enhanced Skills Maternity Care and Self Directed Enhanced Skills.
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What do Medical Students need to know?
Clinical rotation opportunities in Northwestern Ontario
allow students to spend time with family physicians servicing
small communities with 1000 – 15,000 population. Thunder
Bay has a population of 117,000 and is the urban centre of
the region.
Northern Ontario Electives Program (NEP) is administered by NOSM. Medical trainees from all Ontario Faculties of Medicine can gain access to northern community-based clinical learning opportunities by registering in the electives program. The duration of the elective must be a minimum of 4 weeks.
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Grants and Incentives
On March 5, 2010 the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced significant changes to the physician recruitment and retention components of the Underserviced Area Program (UAP).
The redesign of UAP incentives is intended to better support the recruitment and retention of physicians by rural and northern communities, and to assist those communities in greatest need.
Please note that the revisions announced by the Ministry will only affect physicians and communities on a going-forward basis. Any physician that is currently signed on to a UAP arrangement, or enrolled in a UAP incentive program, will be grandfathered for the duration of that commitment.
The changes focus on the Free Tuition Program, Incentive Grant Program, and postgraduate Return of Service (ROS) requirements. In short, these programs will be detached from the UAP and the existing funding will be consolidated in a new Northern and Rural Recruitment and Retention Initiative.
Incentive grants under the new program will be distributed according to geographic eligibility criteria based on Rurality Index for Ontario (RIO) scores. Communities with RIO scores of 40 and over will be eligible for incentive grants. Information about RIO is available on the OMA website: https://www.oma.org/members/Negotiations/rio.asp
The five Northern Urban Referral Centres—Thunder Bay, Sudbury, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins—all of which have RIO scores under 40, will be grandfathered.
A new provincial Postgraduate Return of Service Program will allow all communities, with the exception of the Toronto area and City of Ottawa, to recruit physicians who have ROS requirements, such as international medical graduates. (Note: The Toronto area is defined as the City of Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham and Pickering. The City of Ottawa is defined as the 23 wards within the boundaries of that city.)
The UAP revisions reflect the findings of a province-wide consultation process with communities and stakeholders, including the OMA via the Physician Human Resources Committee UAP Working Group and the Section of Rural Practice.
Comprehensive details about the UAP revisions and physician eligibility rules will be available on the OMA website beginning the week of March 22, 2010. The Ministry's announcement and backgrounder are located at: http://www.news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2010/03/improving-access-to-health-care.html
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