Postgraduate Report

The Family Medicine Postgraduate Program would like to sincerely thank the following faculty members for their dedication to the Postgraduate Program:

Dr. Kyle Carter for his leadership in the Enhanced Skills Program as Program Director for the past three years.

Dr. Daniela Keren for her leaderships as the Academic Program & QI/Research Coordinator over the past year.

Dr. Anne Martin for her leadership as the Stratford Site Director. Dr. Martin will continue to mentor residents as a preceptor.

We would also like to welcome the following faculty members to their new roles commencing in the 2024-25 academic year:

Dr. Tatiana Jevremovic as the Enhanced Skills Program Director

Dr. Jay Taylor as the Academic Program & QI/Research Coordinator

Following the completion of the second iteration CaRMS match, we are pleased to report that our program has filled all our residency positions.

June has been a busy month for our residents. On June 12 we held Resident Project Day at the Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine where the PGY2 and PGY3 residents presented on their research or quality improvement projects on a wide range of topics: Resident Project Day Abstracts.

On June 21 we congratulated and celebrated our graduating residents at a Graduation Celebration at the Mercato (Brescia).  It was a wonderful evening filled with much excitement amongst residents, family, friends and faculty. We wish our residents the very best as they venture out into practice or into additional enhanced skills training programs in July.  It has been a pleasure training you over the past couple of years.

Congratulations to the 2023/24 Family Medicine Award Winners:

Resident Awards

Dr. Frank J. Butson Resident Award in Family Medicine – Dr. Julia Petta

Lilija and Janis Strauts Award – Dr. Zachary Weiss

Leonora Sheppard Award in Family Medicine – Dr. Jackson Blonde & Dr. David Zheng

Jo-Anne Hammond Family Medicine Resident Award – Dr. Rebecca Whitehead

City of Windsor Family Physicians Award – Dr. Alexandra Zygowska

Windsor Resident – FM Postgraduate Award for Academic Leadership – Dr. Julia Petta

Department of Family Medicine: Outstanding Resident Award – Dr. Moaz Chohan

Research Awards

Department of Family Medicine: Dr. Ron Christie Prize for Best Overall Project – Dr. Ellen Tousaw – also nominated for the CFPC Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship

Department of Family Medicine: Best Research Project – Dr. Adam Merlo

Department of Family Medicine:  Best Resident Project Presentation (PGY3) – Dr. Bojana Rada (Sexual Assaults in the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Study on the Provision of Services, Injury Types, and Wait Times at LHSC)

Honourable Mentions (PGY3) – Dr. Anish Tejura (A Review of the Management of RCC) and Dr. Natan Veinberg (Virtual Reality for Improving Symptoms in a Multi-site Hospice Setting)

Department of Family Medicine:  Best Resident Project Presentation (PGY2) – Dr. Adam Merlo

Honourable Mentions (PGY2) – Dr. Jasveen Kaur, Dr. Samir Mohammed, and Dr. Syed Ahmed Neamatullah (Improving waist circumference measurements in diabetic visits in Victoria Family Medical Centre) and Dr. Sara Rathore and Dr. Rebecca Whitehead (An approach to adding “family” back into family medicine – an initiative to improve patient-centeredness by increasing family demographic documentation in the electronic medical records for children aged 0-2 years old at Byron Family Medical Centre)

CFPC Family Medicine Resident Scholarship – Dr. Moaz Chohan

Teacher Awards

Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – London - Dr. Daniel Grushka

Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Rural / Distributed - Dr. Tamra Steinmann

Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Regional – Dr. Theodosios Karaouzas

Faculty of the Year Award – Windsor - Dr. Matthew DiBartolomeo

Best Adjunct Non-Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – London – Dr. Jo-Anne Hammond

Best Adjunct Non-Core Family Medicine Teacher Award –Regional – Dr. Matthew Rowe

Faculty of the Year Award – Sub Specialty Rotation – Windsor – Dr. Reema Ray

Best Specialist Teacher Award – Dr. Ruksana Nasreen

DFM Allied Health Care Recognition Award – Melissa Bloomfield, RPN (Victoria Family Medical Centre)

Dr. Ian McWhinney Teacher of the Year Award – Dr. Daniel Grushka

Recognition Award: Chief Residents – Drs. Moaz Chohan, Julia Petta, David Zheng

Important Upcoming Dates:

  • Resident Orientation: July 3, 2024

We are amid our Spring / Summer Site visit tour; we look forward to coming to your site in person (some by ZOOM) over the next month if we haven’t already visited. These meetings are used to provide feedback on your training site, to discuss on-going evaluation issues and for the sites to discuss any issues of importance to them locally.

Thank you to all the faculty and administrative staff for all their hard work and diligence in supervising, supporting and teaching our residents. Wishing you all a wonderful summer.