Queen's Family Medicine Residency

Welcome to Queen’s Family Medicine and thank you for taking the time to learn more about our award-winning program.

For many years, we have proudly affirmed our motto: Train at Queen’s. Work Anywhere. This is as true today as it has ever been.

Our four sites have access to more than 85 training locations spanning across Southern Ontario, and training can reach as far north as James Bay and as far south as the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Such diversity in training locations allows each resident to customize their clinical experiences to not only attain general competency, but to meet their own unique needs for specific or focused skills required for their anticipated practice community.

We recognize that each resident has their own learning goals, and therefore benefits from customized clinical experiences and scheduling to achieve those objectives. This individualization is met within the primary context of every graduate requiring competency in all family medicine realms.

With many available choices, and to help guide our residents through their postgraduate journey, each resident is assigned an academic advisor who will meet with them at least three times annually to review progress, needs, plans, and wellness.

No doubt this adaptive and comprehensive programming is a major factor in our program twice earning the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada’s annual Keith Award, which recognizes excellence in producing rural doctors.

As a very early adopter of the CFPC Triple C curriculum, Queen’s Family Medicine has more than 10 years’ experience in Competency Based Medical Education (CBME). More recently, the remainder of the postgraduate medical training programs at Queen’s have moved to a CBME model as well, meaning that whether your preceptor is a family physician or from another specialty, they will likely have experience and expertise in CBME.

Perhaps one of our more unique strengths is a solid dedication to program improvement. Our robust, multi-layered program evaluation and quality-improvement process continually informs adaptation and innovation of our curriculum, clinical experiences, assessment, and wellness approaches.

At Queen’s Family Medicine, we have prioritized wellness initiatives to support you during your postgraduate training. Our faculty is exceptionally dedicated to our program and, more specifically, to our residents. Our Resident Wellness and Resilience sub-committee, comprising residents from each of our sites and our enhanced skills programs, faculty members, and our department’s social workers, reports directly to the program leadership. This committee has been empowered to undertake both routine preventive and reactionary initiatives, all with a wellness and resilience focus.

Any program is only as good as its faculty and residents, and at Queen’s we are fortunate to have phenomenal people. Our resident-driven initiatives such as our Nightmares-FM course, POCUS, UGME teaching and mentoring, and many others have allowed our program to evolve and continuously improve. Many resident leadership roles exist within the program, spanning all sites. Importantly, these leadership roles are tied to significant influence over changes and improvements within the program.

It is resident voices that have resulted in Queen’s Family Medicine twice earning the Professional Association of Residents of Ontario (PARO) Residency Program Excellence Award, making us the only program to win this provincial recognition more than once. Further, we are the only family medicine program in the province to receive this award in its history. In addition to our two wins, we have been nominated for this award in seven other years, from 2012 to 2022 inclusive, and our Belleville-Quinte program received a nomination in 2014. I hope this gives you a sense of our program, our culture, and our priorities.

Please reach out with questions about our Queen’s Family Medicine program.

Dr. Kim Curtin

Postgraduate Program Director, Queen’s Family Medicine

kim.curtin@queensu.ca

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