Postgraduate Report

Assessments: 

With December holidays approaching, we wanted to take a moment to remind our preceptors and residents to complete their One45 to-do items. If you’ve forgotten your One45 password, click “Need help logging in?” on log-in page and enter your UWO email address. Check your UWO email for password reset instructions. If you cannot remember your UWO email password, follow the following steps to reset your @uwo.ca password:

  1. Call Western Technology Services (WTS) Helpdesk at 1-519-661- 3800
  2. Select option 1 for Western Staff/Faculty support
  3. Select option 2 for Computer Accounts Office
  4. The WTS Computer Accounts staff will ask for your Western employee number, date of birth, last 4 numbers of your Social Insurance Number (SIN), and/or your home address to verify your identity. This is important because this login gives an individual access to your Human Resources data
  5. Please have a computer handy, as they will ask you to access the Western Identity Manager webpage and will walk you through the next steps.

 

If you have not done so, we would recommend forwarding your @uwo email account to one that you regularly use. The instructions for that are available here: https://wts.uwo.ca/office_365/email/email.html

Program Recruitment Events:

  • Enhanced Skills Match Day: December 13, 2023
  • Family Medicine CaRMS Virtual Info Session for Applicants #1: November 23, 2023 (6:30 p.m. on Zoom) London, Regional, and Windsor Streams
  • Family Medicine CaRMS Virtual Info Session for Applicants #2: November 30, 2023 (6:30 p.m. via Zoom): Goderich, Hanover, Petrolia, Chatham-Kent, Stratford, Listowel
  • DOFM Interviewer Orientation Session: January 10, 2024 (1:30 p.m. via Zoom)
  • IMG Interview Date: January 19, 2024 (via Zoom)
  • CMG 2024 Interview Dates:
    • Wednesday, January 17, 2024 (12:30 – 4:00 p.m., via Zoom)
    • Saturday, January 20, 2024 (8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via Zoom)
    • Sunday, January 21, 2024 (8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via Zoom)
    • Wednesday, January 24, 2024 (12:30 – 4:00 p.m., via Zoom)
  • Match Day:  March 19, 2024

 

Resident Project:

Find details of the forms, steps, and requirements for the resident project within the following link (under requirements): https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/familymedicine/postgraduate/current_residents/curriculum/academic_program/resident_project/index.html

There are many resources available to residents at Western: faculty advisors, staff at home centre, the project website (above), Librarian support (https://guides.lib.uwo.ca/schulichclinical), Writing Support Centre (www.sdc.uwo.ca/writing/), or even funding support through the Department Research Committee (details on project website).

Resident Project Requirements: Project proposals are due before the end of your PGY1 multi-block core family medicine rotation and due two weeks after the end of your multi-block core family medicine rotation in your PGY2 year (exception for those starting their starting their core FM in blocks 9 or 10 where projects will be due at the end of April).  Please email fmpgc@schulich.uwo.ca with any project questions.

If you are completing a research project, we ask that you submit a copy of your Ethics application to fmpgc@schulich.uwo.ca so that we can track your progress.

Teaching/Learning Resources:

As faculty, learners, and staff, you have access to many resources at Western University! Below find a few highlighted resources that might be of interest.

This will be my last newsletter as Postgraduate Director and as such I wanted to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU for all everyone does for our for our residents and our Postgraduate program each year. We have an excellent residency program all thanks to the incredible mentors and preceptors in our Department. Thank you for all you do. It has been my absolute pleasure to be part of the FM PG leadership team for over a decade as the Rural-Regional PD and then as the Postgraduate Director. I will truly miss all of you and our whole Department as I move onto new adventures back home in New Brunswick as the Senior Associate Dean, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick with the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University soon. Please stay in touch and drop in for a visit should you ever find yourselves on vacation on the East Coast.

Wishing you much peace and joy this Holiday Season and in the New Year.

Dr. Julie Copeland
Postgraduate Program Director