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BOUNDARY TRAILS PARKLAND Winkler (pop. 10,670) and Morden (pop. 7,812) | 130 km southwest of Winnipeg Dauphin (pop. 8,457) | 330 km northwest of Winnipeg Residents spend 24 weeks of their first-year Family Medicine Block The Parkland unit is based in an agriculture-based area, accessing Time (FMBT) and many of their second-year rotations in either Winkler communities that prepare residents for practice in rural areas. It has or Morden, as well as the nearby Boundary Trails Health Centre. high rate of graduates that return to practice in rural areas. For family medicine training, residents are paired with a primary Through use of community physician faculty and preceptors, along preceptor at their busy fee-for-service clinic at the Agassiz Medical with dedicated inter-professional faculty, residents are exposed to a DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE Centre or the CW Wiebe Medical Centre. broad scope of practices. Physicians at these clinics have specialty training in areas such as Clinical settings include hospital wards, emergency rooms, scheduled RURAL STREAM chemotherapy, women’s health, obstetrics, hemodialysis, addiction and community clinics, surgeries, personal care homes, home visits medicine, palliative care, emergency medicine and anesthesia. and specialty clinics. Professionals such as optometrists, audiologists, pharmacists, nurses and mental health care professionals are integrated BRANDON (SATELLITE CAMPUS) into the program, ensuring a rich, interdisciplinary learning experience. Brandon (pop. 53,229) | 214 km west of Winnipeg The many years of training have encouraged a safe learning Brandon offers a metropolitan lifestyle rich in culture with all the charm of small-town living. environment, with support from both the medical community and The Brandon satellite campus provides core and elective rotations the support of the clients within the communities in which our family for medical students, a horizontal clerkship, and residency positions medicine residents train. in family medicine, anesthesia, psychiatry and enhanced skills emergency medicine. PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE Over the two years of family medicine, residents complete 19 of Portage la Prairie and surrounding area (pop. 35,000) | 100 km west of Winnipeg 22 blocks in Brandon and have two elective rotations. Pediatric Residents care for patients at the busy fee-for-service Portage Clinic, emergency and palliative medicine are completed in Winnipeg, and the Portage District General Hospital, as well as several satellite one block of family medicine is spent in a smaller rural community. outpatient clinics, including the Cartier and MacGregor Health In Brandon, residents are paired with a primary and secondary Centres, Development Centre, Agassiz Youth Centre, Sandy preceptor in a busy fee-for service comprehensive practice including Bay Health Centre, Addictions Foundation Manitoba, Teen Clinic, KF urgent care, hospital care, long-term care, obstetrics, CFB Shilo Family Aerospace Flight Training School and personal care homes. Clinic and a resident-run teen clinic with Sioux Valley First Nation High The Portage Clinic consists of a wide variety of collaborative members School. including family physicians, general surgeons, otolaryngologists and Horizontal exposure in emergency, psychiatry and family medicine several visiting specialists. At the hospital, residents are exposed to a continuity clinics happen throughout both years. Specialty rotations wide variety of experiences in the emergency room, surgery, intensive are provided by generalist specialists in Brandon. care unit, obstetrics, dialysis, chemotherapy, psychiatry and anesthesia departments. -EASTERN (SELKIRK) Portage la Prairie offers five primary preceptors which provides excellent Selkirk and surrounding area (pop. approx. 30,000) | 70 km northwest of Winnipeg) learner-to-physician ratios with as much one-on-one time as possible. The new Interlake-Eastern stream offers residents the opportunity to gain extensive clinical experience in Selkirk and throughout the STEINBACH Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority. Steinbach (pop. 15,829) | 65 km southeast of Winnipeg Residents are primarily based with Selkirk Medical Associates, and at Residents spend 20 weeks of their first-year FMBT in Steinbach. In the the new Selkirk Regional Health Centre. Selkirk Medical Associates second year, residents have FMBT as well as surgery and pediatric As a resident in the University of Manitoba’s Rural Family Medicine stream, you’ll see FEATURES operates a busy fee-for-service clinic that serves Selkirk and the rotations in Steinbach. Emergency and obstetrics run horizontally large patient volumes and hone your procedural skills through a variety of clinical Choose from the following options in surrounding area. throughout the two-year experience. encounters. the rural stream: Steinbach Family Medical is a fully computerized, busy, fee-for-service There are significant opportunities to participate in outpatient clinics, This stream offers excellent learner-to-physician ratios ensuring as much one-on-one clinic and one of the first My Health Teams in Manitoba. The Steinbach • Boundary Trails (Winkler/Morden) inpatient medicine, emergency services, family medicine based time as possible. These sites also welcome undergraduate students, enhancing the site offers a clinical teaching unit at Bethesda Regional Health Centre, obstetrics, chemotherapy, palliative care and long term care facilities. opportunity for collaborative learning. • Brandon opportunity for teaching medical students, and learning in an • Interlake-Eastern (Selkirk) interdisciplinary work setting. Each of the six rural streams and their wide catchments offer slightly different oppor- tunities based on their location and culture. For example, sites may offer hands-on • Parkland (Dauphin) exposure to the agricultural industry to provide an enhanced understanding of farm-re- • Portage La Prairie lated injuries, time in a rural Canadian Forces base to better understand specialized Disclaimer: The Department of Family Medicine reserves the right to make • Steinbach changes to the information contained in this fact sheet without notice. Visit our populations, or work with Indigenous communities to gain a better understanding of website to ensure you have the latest details. issues surrounding access to health care. Continuity of care at all of our learning sites is an educational priority. CONTACT Family Medicine Postgraduate Office Max Rady College of Medicine Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba P228-770 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0W3 T: 204-977-5663 | F: 204-272-3090 | [email protected]

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Rural Experience Each of the six rural streams and their wide catchments offer slightly different opportunities based on their location and culture. Exceptional Education BOUNDARY INTERLAKE - EAST- Study with the best. Many of our faculty are involved in research that influences how healthcare is delivered in Manitoba and beyond. SECOND YEAR PARKLAND PORTAGE LA TRAILS BRANDON ERN STEINBACH ROTATIONS (Dauphin / St. Rose) PRAIRIE Elders-In-Residence (Winkler/Morden) (Selkirk) Receive guidance from our Elder. All students, faculty and staff at the University of Manitoba are welcome to access this (All Numbers in Weeks) Electives 4 4 4 4 4 4

Family Medicine Block Time FIRST YEAR INTERLAKE - BOUNDARY TRAILS PARKLAND PORTAGE LA (FMBT) ROTATIONS BRANDON EASTERN STEINBACH 28 (Winkler/Morden) (Dauphin / St. Rose) PRAIRIE 24 (All Numbers in Weeks) (Selkirk) Includes exposures to Indigenous 28 (20 Dauphin plus 20 (20 Brandon 32 24 Health, Addictions Medicine, Adult (8 weeks in rural) 8 Grandview or and 4 rural) Electives 4 4 4 4 4 4 Emergency, Airway Management, Ste. Rose du Lac Gynecology, Psychiatry and FM or other rural site) Family Medicine Block Time Anaesthesia (FMBT) ICU 4 4 4 4 4 4 Includes exposures to Indigenous 24 Health, Addictions Medicine, 24 (20 Brandon 24 20 20 20 Exposure in Exposure in Adult Emergency, Airway and 4 rural) Neonatology - - - - Management, Gynecology and FMBT FMBT Psychiatry Exposure in Exposure in Exposure in Obstetrics - 4 - FMBT FMBT FMBT Internal Medicine 8 8 8 8 8 8 Exposure in Palliative Medicine 4 4 4 4 4 8 12 FMBT Obstetrics (4 Winnipeg and 8 8 8 12 (4 Winnipeg, 4 Boundary Trails) 4 Boundary Trails & Exposure in 4 ER/Obs Steinbach) Pediatrics 4 4 4 4 4 FMBT Palliative Medicine - - - 4 - - 4 Pediatric Emergency 4 4 4 4 4 4 Choose one of: Cardiology, Vacation** 4 4 4 4 4 4 8 Emergency Selective - - - - Family Medicine Medicine, Family TOTAL 52 52 52 52 52 52 Medicine, Hospitalist, ICU, Nephrology or **The four weeks allocated for vacation can be taken all at once or in two 2-week intervals in conjunction with electives. Obstetrics

Exposure in 8 Surgery 4 4 4 4 4 weeks Horizontal FMBT Anaesthesia/ER/Sports Med/Cast Clinic/ Hospitalist Vacation** 4 4 4 4 4 4

TOTAL 52 52 52 52 52 52

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