Family Medicine

The Department of Family Medicine offers a two-year postgraduate training program based in Montreal or in Gatineau.  There are three family medicine training centres in Montreal:  St. Mary's Hospital, the Sir M.B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, and the CLSC Côte-des-Neiges. The family medicine training centre in Gatineau is located at the Centre Hospitalier des Vallées de l'Outaouais, and is a francophone program. Regardless of location, the program at any particular centre offers three main components: ongoing experience in family practice, coordinated training in the medical specialties, and exposure to rural practice.

Although residents will rotate through in-hospital services of internal medicine, pediatrics, perinatology, psychiatry, surgery, emergency, geriatrics, and ICU, they will also develop their own supervised practices during two half-days per week which are spent back in their home family medicine unit throughout their training period. Supervisors are full-time and part-time practicing physicians who are certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

The program also includes an ongoing curriculum that focuses on management of common patient problems in an ambulatory setting. Principles of family dynamics, utilization of community resources and optimal cooperation with other health professionals in providing comprehensive care are also emphasized in the curriculum.

The Chair, Directors, and Educational Coordinators of the Family Medicine Units and their associate teaching hospitals are:

Dr. M. Dawes, Chair, McGill Department of Family Medicine, 517 Pine Avenue West
Dr. D. Dalton, Program Director, McGill Department of Family Medicine, 517 Pine Avenue West
Dr. M. Malus, Director, Herzl Family Practice Centre, Sir M.B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital
Dr. H. Abrahams, Educational Coordinator, Herzl Family Practice Centre, Sir M.B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital
Dr. A. Pavilanis, Director, Family Medicine Centre, St. Mary's Hospital
Dr. M. Doyle, Educational Coordinator,  Family Medicine Centre, St. Mary's Hospital
Dr. S. Bouchard, Director, CSSS Gatineau.
Dr. G. Proulx, Educational Coordinator, CSSS Gatineau
Dr. V. Jimenez, Director, Family Medicine Centre, CSSS Côte-Des-Neiges
Dr. N. Gupta, Educational Coordinator, Family Medicine Centre CSSS Côte-des- Neiges

The core program as outlined can be completed within two years after Canadian medical school graduation. A third year program for additional training in Emergency Medicine (approx. 12 positions), Care of the Elderly, and Palliative Care, may be available to appropriate candidates upon application. Fellowships are also available in Sports Medicine and Maternal/Child Health.

For more detailed information please consult the Department of Family Medicine website at:  http://www.mcgill.ca/familymed/

Ms. Julie Lane, Postgraduate Teaching Coordinator
Department of Family Medicine
5l7 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, QC H2W 1S4
Tel.: (514) 398-7375 ext 0228
Fax : (514) 398-4202
email: julie.lane@mcgill.ca

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