Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine WATERLOO REGIONAL CAMPUS FACULTY GUIDE Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine CONTENTS WATERLOO REGIONAL CAMPUS WELCOME Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine .......2 Curriculum Outline ............................................3 Small Group PBL Tutor ......................................4 Welcome to our guide for physicians and other health care Clinical Skills Preceptor .....................................5 professionals interested in becoming involved with the Waterloo Clinical Clerkship Placement Preceptor ..........5 Regional Campus of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. Professional Competencies Longitudinal Facilitator .....................................6 This is McMaster’s first fully distributed site for medical education, and the vision of a local distributed medical school campus is Student Advisor ................................................7 being realized through a unique partnership between McMaster How else can you participate? ........................8 University and the University of Waterloo. Volunteer ...........................................................9 The first students of the medical school campus, who graduate in CONTACT May 2010, have been warmly welcomed by the community, which sees Waterloo-Wellington as ideally suited to advance its long Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine established interest and role in the training and preparation of Faculty of Health Sciences physician and residents. The long term success and sustainability of McMaster University this initiative is clearly due to the commitment of local physicians to Waterloo Regional Campus share their expertise and wisdom with our students. 50 Queen Street N., Suite 700 Kitchener, ON Canada N2H 6P4 There are many valued educational roles described in this brochure n Phone: 519-885-5426 ext. 21104 that we hope will intrigue and interest you. Our students require n Fax: 519-584-0197 a vast array of preclinical and clinical experiences within a well n Email: [email protected] defined medical education program. Your willingness to assist in n Web: www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/wrc the training of our future physicians ensures their experiences and education in Waterloo – Wellington is first class! DIRECTORY Thank you for considering what role you can play in this exciting 519-885-5426 and extension: educational mandate. Through focused, accredited faculty Regional Assistant Dean: 21100 development sessions and individual support by our knowledgeable Director Student Affairs: 21122 regional education leaders, we trust you will feel comfortable and Regional Program Administrator: 21112 supported to participate as vital members of our teaching team. WRC Administrative Assistant: 21104 Curriculum Assistant: 21101 Education is our legacy and we all have much to share. Regional Administrative Leader: 21105 Regional Administrative Assistants: 21137 Educationally yours, LINKS Cathy Morris, MHSc, MD, FRCP(C) Faculty Development website: Regional Assistant Dean www.fhs.mcmaster.ca /facdev Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine MD Program website: McMaster University www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/main/medschool Waterloo Regional Campus Faculty of Health Sciences website: www.fhs.mcmaster.ca 1 Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine The Faculty of Health Sciences was formed in 1974, incorporating the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. By 2000, building on its interprofessional character, the Faculty had expanded to include a School of Rehabilitation Science, a midwifery program, many post-professional diploma programs and graduate studies and a health sciences honours undergraduate program. In the past eight years, with Dr. John Kelton as the dean and vice-president of the Faculty of Health Sciences as well as dean of the medical school, enrolment of the medical school has increased from 100 first-year students to 183, and the research mandate with its academic HIGHLIGHTS: Since its founding in 1966, innovation hospital partners has soared to $240 has been the hallmark of McMaster million a year. n McMaster currently has 496 University’s Michael G. DeGroote School The medical school was named the undergraduate medical students and of Medicine and a major contributor to its Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine 684 medical residents working in 46 international reputation for excellence. in 2003, in honour of the Hamilton specialties and sub-specialties at its philanthropist. His donation of $105 academic hospital partners throughout Innovation is the hallmark of million, to support the school’s research Hamilton, as well as through placements mission, was the largest-ever educational in more than 60 cities and rural Ontario McMaster University’s Michael donation to a Canadian institution. communities, in keeping with a move In 2005, the medical school moved into towards distributed education. G. DeGroote School of Medicine. the new Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery, a $71-million, n The school regularly receives double Under the school’s first dean, Dr. John 300,000-square-foot facility, linked by the number of applications of any other Evans, a group of innovative educators pedestrian skyway to the Health Sciences Canadian medical school. Every year developed an undergraduate medical Centre. The building includes small group there are more than 4,500 applicants program that stirred controversy and classrooms equipped with the newest vying for the three-year program’s 183 defied convention by emphasizing self- technology suitable to the needs of its entry spots. directed learning. McMaster created a diverse educational programs as well revolution in health care training with the as state-of-the-art wet labs, including n In 2007 the inaugural class of 15 first-year establishment of a medical school that a human vector laboratory unique to students began at the new Waterloo pioneered a problem-based learning (PBL) Canadian universities. Regional Campus in December. curriculum, which has since influenced From its early days as the focus of health care education worldwide. controversy and scrutiny, McMaster’s n In 2008, the first class of 15 medical The inaugural convocation in 1972 saw medical school has prospered, and students for the new Niagara campus of 19 students receive their MD degrees. That proven that its community-oriented, the medical school began. After the initial same year construction was completed of interdisciplinary, small group learning medical Foundation of four months the the McMaster University Health Sciences provides a fertile environment for class transferred to the Niagara Campus. Centre, a uniquely designed building educating physicians. In 2005, a revised housing a 370-bed tertiary care hospital undergraduate medical curriculum, together with teaching and research which is concept-based and electronically facilities for the medical school. enhanced, was launched. 2 Curriculum Medical Foundations 1 (MF1) (16 weeks): Medical Foundations 3 (MF3) (9 weeks): THE CLERKSHIP (60 weeks): The first week of this block of This foundation covers the second part of Clerkship begins in December of the second curriculum addresses patterns of homeostasis, including the balance of acid year. While the clerkship is firmly linked to the determinants of health. The premise and base, blood pressure and renal function. pre-clerkship concept-based curriculum and will of this introductory component of the It goes on to address reproduction include continuing delivery of the professional curriculum is that health care systems do and pregnancy and a number of issues in competencies curriculum, this is now the time not account for much of the systematic genetics related to reproduction. for students to participate in the direct care of differences in health status within The professional competencies patients as they learn about the management or among populations in advanced curriculum in MF 3 will focus on an of health and illness. industrial economies. Health care introduction to the health care system The tutorial cases are now real patients or students need to understand why people and preventative medicine. populations. Students become self-sufficient get sick in the first place and why people in contemporary medicine, able to sense get well. Social epidemiologists see that Medical Foundations 4 (MF4) (9 weeks): when today’s medicine becomes out-of-date causes of ill health in populations are This foundation addresses host defence, by adopting good habits of learning and different from causes of ill health in which includes immunology and infectious assessment. individuals. disease, and then moves on to look at The clerkship program consists of rotations in After this introductory look at neoplasia and the genetics of neoplasia. medicine, surgery, family medicine, anesthesia, determinants of health, the curriculum The professional competencies moves on to address the first of the curriculum in MF 4 will focus on emergency medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, major concept themes in the curriculum: professional practice and preparations obstetrics and gynecology and orthopedic oxygen supply and exchange. In for summer electives. surgery. There is also elective time, the majority addressing problems that arise from of which must be spent in clinical activity. inspired air right through to oxygen The compulsory components of the Clerkship at the cellular level, students will McMaster’s medical school will be conducted in the affiliated community learn much related to the respiratory,