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Windsor and
Essex County-Canada’s southern most destination that shares the same latitude as
Rome, Italy, Napa Valley, California and Barcelona, Spain. Residents and
visitors alike enjoy the miles of spectacular waterfront parkland that invites
walking, cycling, or rollerblading in the city. Living directly across the
border from Detroit, Michigan, also places you on the cosmopolitan stage where
arts, culture, big league sports and entertainment are just moments away. Best
of all, you can access all these “big-city” advantages while lining in the
relative tranquility of a much smaller, friendlier community. With some 109
different ethnic cultures represented, Windsor is also a place where you will
find a broad range of religious practices, cultural events, activities, and
cuisines.
As for the
medical community, the last five years have witnessed impressive growth in
undergraduate teaching and the residency program in psychiatry of the University
of Western Ontario (UWO). During this period, the department has also been
developing the extended campus program (ECP), including the SWOMEN urban and rural
sites, to provide as wide a variety of educational experiences as possible to
it’s residents. In addition, the department has proposed the creation of a
Division of Community, Social and Rural Psychiatry. This opportunity has
prompted consideration of the enhanced role that SWOMEN sites could play for
this division. Great opportunities abound, including community based clinical
experience, research and teaching, while using the latest technological
innovations of distributed education to do so.
SWOMEN
postgraduate training provides residents rotations in both Windsor, an urban
centre with a catchment of over 300,000 people, and in small to midsized
communities throughout Southwestern Ontario. Other residency programs in
Windsor include six core specialties - Anesthesia, General Surgery, Internal
Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Pediatrics, in addition to Psychiatry.
The academic
community has also been home to a clerkship program for seven years; commencing
in September 2008, a full four year program of undergraduate medical education
will be provided in Windsor. The medical community in the city has
enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to be involved in teaching at all
levels. Students and residents are welcomed and appreciated. Community support
has also fostered the development of an infrastructure to support teaching
including a new medical school building, as well as improvements in the medical
libraries, and areas dedicated to teaching students, on call rooms, and lounges
within the hospitals themselves. The community has initiated a number of
traditional academic activities such as regular grand rounds in most
departments, including psychiatry. Finally, the development of the medical
school has fostered the growth of a technically sophisticated video network
allowing distance education, and participation at rounds, journal club, and
other educational events taking place in London.
Adult
psychiatry rotations in Windsor are to include a minimum of three hours per week
direct supervision. This commitment would include a weekly supervised
psychiatric interview, but also may include practice in Objective Structured
Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)s focusing on adult psychiatry and regular review
of documentation in order to improve documentation skills for consultation
letters and progress notes. Faculty members will also assist trainees with the
preparation of clinical rounds and medical student teaching. Currently,
requirements for on-call experience will necessitate residents returning to
London for their completion. The academic director for post-graduate training
accepts the responsibility of ensuring that resident’s service commitments will
not eclipse the primary goal of achieving the objectives of the adult inpatient
and out-patient core rotations.
Undergraduate
Psychiatry rotations available
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