Brandon doctor training program grows
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A growing number of medical students and residents are receiving hands-on training in Brandon as Prairie Mountain Health continues to expand its partnership with the University of Manitoba.
The Brandon Satellite Program, which began in 2013, provides medical training in a rural setting with the goal of exposing future physicians to the realities of practising outside Winnipeg.
The program has grown to include three streams based primarily in Brandon: a two-year family medicine residency, a five-year psychiatry residency and a one-year longitudinal clerkship for third-year medical students completing clinical rotations.
There is also a hybrid five-year anesthesia residency that includes part of its training in Brandon, and a one-year enhanced skills program in emergency medicine.
Dr. Joanne Maier, associate dean with the University of Manitoba, said the program continues to evolve as more learners come through the region.
“We have many visiting medical students, residents and physician assistant trainees doing a variety of rotations here throughout the year,” Maier said.
The Brandon site also provides assessments and support for internationally trained physicians through the Manitoba International Medical Graduate Program, while helping medical education programs in Neepawa and the Parkland region with specialty rotations.
The program’s recent graduates are also continuing to work throughout the region.
Five satellite program residents graduated in June. As of August, Dr. Andres Garcia Fiola was completing a palliative medicine residency in Winnipeg, while Dr. Emma Gervin, Dr. John Ibanga and Dr. Elena Vaz were doing locum work within Prairie Mountain Health.
Dr. Derek Harris was working with PMH Medical Services on potential practice opportunities.
Two residents also graduated from the CCFP-Emergency Medicine program this year. Dr. Cimon Song is working in the Brandon emergency department, while Dr. Fadi Bahodi is doing locum work within Prairie Mountain Health.
The program is also contributing to the next cohort of Manitoba physicians.
Five students who completed their third year of medical school in Brandon moved on to their fourth year and matched to family medicine and surgery programs in Manitoba communities, including Brandon, Portage la Prairie and Winkler.
The next group of learners is already arriving.
Six incoming third-year medical students began their training in September, while five students are scheduled to complete their third-year rotations at the end of the month.
The family medicine program has 13 residents in their first and second years, along with two residents entering their third year with an emergency medicine focus.
The psychiatry program has 10 residents spread across the first through fifth years of training, while one anesthesia resident is entering the fourth year of residency.
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