Inside "The Green Room"

| 27 October 2022

This month’s DFM Monitor includes some great photos from the 10-year anniversary of our Queen’s Bowmanville-Oshawa-Lakeridge (QBOL) site. It was a real pleasure to see such a great turnout of residents, alumni, preceptors, site leadership, QHS leadership, and even Oshawa’s mayor, at a celebration event on September 22.

I want to shout out to QBOL Site Director Dr. Wei-Hsi Pang, whose leadership has really shaped this into a great program that attracts excellent trainees and provides them with a comprehensive family medicine experience.

At the anniversary event, I had the chance to meet with former Queen’s medical students who are now training at our QBOL site and former Queen’s residents who are now serving as preceptors. It really is a great success story and serves as an example of the importance of integrated training in communities that should inform planning for medical school and residency expansions and for the longer-duration family medicine residency programs of the future.

I’ve also been spending a lot of time advocating for improving our practice environments and supports. It was a privilege to participate in the writing of the final Ontario Science Table Briefs on Primary Care (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), published on October 3. We know the answers to many of the problems we are facing daily. More comprehensive family physicians are clearly needed, but so are expansions of team-based care supports, a decrease in administrative burdens (for example more turnkey practice options), and acceleration of the move into blended capitation and blended salary payment models.

I look forward to continuing discussions on these important issues with you over the fall, and hope to see some of you at our (first in-person since COVID) Family Medicine Forum in Toronto in November, where we will celebrate our recent graduates at convocation!

Dr. Michael Green

Department Head Blog

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Thu, 10/27/2022 - 13:20

Inside "The Green Room"

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