Residencies
As a family medicine resident you’ll provide comprehensive out-patient and in-patient care and intrapartum, postpartum and newborn care in urban or rural settings. Choose from several residency options:
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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
Family medicine is a wide-ranging discipline, with the chance to impact a diverse spectrum of patients in various communities. Manitoba is one of the most diverse provinces in the country, providing an excellent opportunity to work with patients from a variety of backgrounds.
As a family medicine resident you’ll provide comprehensive out-patient and in-patient care and intrapartum, postpartum and newborn care in urban or rural settings. Choose from several residency options:
Enhance your career and make a positive contribution to your academic discipline through a variety of advanced training opportunities:
This program option takes place longitudinally alongside your family medicine residency, focusing on prevention and lifestyle management, nutrition, mind-body therapies, supplements and botanicals, whole-medical systems, and integrative approaches to management of various conditions and chronic diseases.
The Clinician Investigator Program provides the next generation of medical and surgical specialists with the leading-edge graduate research training necessary to become successful clinician-scientists.
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In the Department of Family Medicine, we strive to provide comprehensive educational support. This both optimizes the learning environment for our residents and helps identify those who may need additional support.
As a new resident, you will receive an orientation to the program and to the associated teaching sites. As part of this process, you will complete a self-assessment questionnaire, which provides the basis for an initial education plan.
Residents are each assigned a primary preceptor at the start of their residency to serve as a faculty advisor. Throughout your two-year program, you will meet regularly to discuss your progress. You will have the opportunity to request a primary preceptor who is not directly responsible for your assessment.
All residents will have a documented education plan, which will be reviewed at least twice yearly. This will help ensure that you stay on track to achieving both short- and long-term learning goals.
Preparation is key to success. You are expected to prepare for each rotation by reviewing rotation objectives and in-training assessment reports (ITARs). These are available in Entrada.
You are encouraged to reflect on your clinical activities and to document your reflections on a twice-weekly basis using Resident Field Notes. These are for your use only and are not used in your assessment.
The University of Manitoba issues more than $17 million to students each year in the form of scholarships and bursaries. Find out how you can access funding so you can focus on your studies.
The department of family medicine has established a selection of new awards, including:
Applications are due January 6, 2023.
Visit Entrada for full details.
The Manitoba Chapter Guidelines for the Dr. Claude H. Murphy Continuing Medical Education Awards
Applications are due January 6, 2023.
Visit Entrada for full details.
A donor who wishes to remain anonymous has established an endowment fund in honour of Susan Wright Bell, a friend with a developmental disability. The Manitoba Scholarship and Bursary Initiative have made a matching contribution to this fund. The purpose of the fund is to provide scholarship support to students undertaking study in the area of developmental disabilities.
Unicity Labs has established an endowment fund at the University of Manitoba with an initial gift of $25,000. Unicity Labs is a full service community clinical laboratory that provides services to physician clinics in Winnipeg. It has provided services for more than 30 years and is locally owned by four partners.
The UM Office of Research and Quality Improvement is committed to developing practice redesign for family medicine in ways that improve primary care delivery. Our aim is to find new ways of working that will shape the future of family medicine in Manitoba and beyond.
Staff of the OR&QI work collaboratively with The Manitoba SPOR PIHCI Network (MPN) and the Manitoba Primary Care Research Network (MaPCReN) in a shared effort to support evidence-informed health care transformation.
The Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba is seeking applicants for its inaugural Professorship in Research & Innovation in the Department of Family Medicine (DFM). This three-year professorship aims to advance research, scholarship, mentorship, and leadership in the field of Family Medicine, with a specific focus on innovative primary care services aligned with the Patient Medical Home Model.
The successful candidate will lead and collaborate on research projects aimed at innovating primary care delivery, with the goal of improving care quality and outcomes for individuals and communities. They will expand the current research initiatives within the the department by participating in provincial, national, and international research funding competitions, while also providing mentorship and collaboration opportunities for trainees and new researchers pursuing careers in family medicine and primary care.
The Professorship is a three-year appointment, with the possibility of renewal for two additional three-year terms, subject to available funding and performance review. The department will facilitate a full-time position that combines the professorship with a primary care clinical placement if the applicant does not currently hold a clinical position. The successful candidate will report to the Head of the Department of Family Medicine and the Director of Research and Quality Improvement. The anticipated start date is September 4, 2023, or a mutually agreed-upon date.
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
Interested candidates should submit their application to orqi@umanitoba.ca. The application should include a cover letter and curriculum vitae. Please note that application materials, including reference letters, will be handled in accordance with the privacy provisions of The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Manitoba). Curriculum vitae may be shared with members of the search process.
The Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is committed to building an inclusive, open, and diverse community that values and amplifies underrepresented voices. In line with this commitment, the hiring process incorporates proactive measures to address equity, diversity, and inclusion, including implicit bias training for all hiring panels. We encourage applicants to self-identify any aspect of diversity in their cover letter.
The University of Manitoba upholds the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and aims to promote opportunities for systemically marginalized groups, including Indigenous Peoples, women, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, and those who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, intersex, asexual, and other diverse sexual identities) in hiring, promotion, and tenure. While all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
If you require accommodation support during the recruitment process, please contact UM.Accommodation@umanitoba.ca or 204-474-7195.
Please note that this contact information is for accommodation purposes only.
Our aim is to find new ways of working that will shape the future of family medicine in Manitoba and beyond.
As part of our commitment to develop a workforce to serve all Manitobans, we have continued to grow and evolve our network of training sites—a vast network which covers all of our province’s regional health authorities and includes partnerships in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
Communities that received family medicine learners in 2018-2020:
Our sites model comprehensive patient care and provide quality learning experiences to Master of Physician Assistant students, undergraduate medical students, family medicine residents, as well as to a variety of other health professions.
Our provincial network of core family medicine residency training sites includes:
Urban
Bilingual
Rural
Northern Remote
The community preceptor is a skilled practitioner who supervises medical students and/or residents in a clinical setting to allow practical experience with patients. As a community preceptor, you’ll provide educational experiences consistent with the goals and aims of the Department of Family Medicine, The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba.
Preceptors teach students at all levels of training:
Medical students consistently rate their Family Medicine clerkship experience as one of their best rotations. We attribute this to the warm welcome students on placement receive from our community preceptors.
To teach medical students, you must have full registration with The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba. Certification from The College of Family Physicians of Canada is not required but preferred.
We pay a stipend for each week of placement, though this is unlikely to be your motivation to mentor a student or resident. Most physicians become preceptors because they enjoy the camaraderie, appreciate the service the students and residents contribute to their practice and feel good about being involved in someone’s education and future career. We believe your relationship with our students and residents will be among the most rewarding of your professional life.
Preceptors receive:
A community preceptor
The community preceptor
For more information about the duties and responsibilities of a preceptor, please contact:
Kim Le
Education coordinator
kim.le@umanitoba.ca
For information on acquiring a UM academic appointment to become a preceptor, please contact:
Stephanie Plaitin
Administrative services coordinator
stephanie.plaitin@umanitoba.ca
Our faculty is one of our greatest strengths as a department. We are dedicated to improving patient outcomes through evidence-based medicine. Our educators are passionate about inspiring the next generation of family physicians, while research faculty concentrate on the future of the discipline.
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Family Medicine
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University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
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