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Residency Program wins PAIRO Residency Program Excellence Award!
The award recognizes programs that provide positive and rewarding experiences for their residents, while producing expertly trained physicians. Dr. Karen Schultz, Queen’s Family Medicine Program Director, says the award recognizes the dedication of the faculty and staff at the Department’s three existing sites (Kingston & 1000 Islands, Belleville-Quinte and Peterborough-Kawartha). In July, the department will launch its fourth site, Queen’s Bowmanville Oshawa-Lakeridge (QBOL). “This award was initiated and supported by our residents from all sites and is a testament to all of our preceptors, allied health care professionals and staff who support our residents’ education. Their hard work and the positive atmosphere they create are clearly providing a supportive, strong, innovative learning environment that our residents really appreciate. It doesn’t get better than that.” Dr. Glenn Brown, Head of the Department of Family Medicine, notes that the “commitment to outstanding educational experiences” for the Department’s postgraduate trainees extends to a broader community. “All teachers in the Faculty of Health Sciences, our major teaching hospitals, and our regional partners are critical to the success of our residency program.” This exceptional educational environment is reflected in the fact that the Family Medicine program is the third Queen’s residency program to win this prestigious award since it was established in 2006. Queen’s General Surgery won the first award in 2006, followed by Anesthesiology in 2009. A resident or group of residents in an accredited residency program may nominate any accredited program in Ontario for this award. Judging is based on educational excellence and innovation, resident well-being/good work environments and attentiveness to resident needs. In addition to the Residency Program Excellence Award, PAIRO also offers annual awards to each medical school in three categories. Queen's awards went to Dr. Stuart Reid for Excellence in Clinical Teaching; Dr. Timothy Chaplin for Resident Teaching; and medical student Curtis Nickel for Citizenship.
Residency Program Accreditation Results: FULL APPROVAL! Accreditation is a regular 6 year quality assurance process for all residency programs in Canada. During an accreditation visit a residency program is carefully scrutinized to ensure they meet national standards and are delivering high caliber postgraduate medical education. In October 2011 Queen’s University hosted accreditation teams from the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. These visits were very successful with 27 of 29 Queen’s programs being recommended for full approval. The teams commented that residency education in general at Queen’s was not “just an add-on, but is the air that is breathed by the faculty at Queen’s”. They were “very impressed by the level of pride of all the teacher’s to be Queen’s doctors…..we were struck by their energy and commitment”. In the Department of Family Medicine we were very pleased to receive a strong vote of endorsement for our Queen’s Family Medicine core and enhanced skills programs. All of our programs were recommended for full accreditation by the College of Family Physicians of Canada accreditation team. The College’s report cited a number of our program’s strengths, including our new, innovative distributed sites; evaluation processes and curriculum planning that may serve as exemplars for the country; and program leaders and preceptors who are dynamic, committed, flexible and responsive to residents’ needs.
We look forward to continuing to provide an innovative program that is on the cutting edge of new curriculum reforms in Family Medicine education in Canada and committed to our resident’s needs.
Karen Schultz, MD, CCFP, FCFP |
