Windsor Campus Curriculum

Please review the PGY1 and PGY2 curricula below. Note that all rotations are subject to availability and other arrangements may be necessary if a rotation is not available. If you prefer another location other than what is listed below, please indicate it on your preferences survey; however, we cannot guarantee that a resident’s preference can be accommodated.

Features of our Windsor Campus

  • Training in urban and suburban community practices
  • Ample elective opportunities during and outside of family medicine block time with teaching faculty who have a wide variety of special interests
  • Experience interdisciplinary care while working with nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists

The Windsor Campus has an integrated 2-year curriculum. There are electronic medical resources for residents, including computer and internet access, and standard medical resources in each core Family Medicine training site.

Windsor's training program affords residents ample one-on-one time with preceptors and provides a positive resident/preceptor experience overall. Family Medicine residents are in high demand in Windsor due to the limited number of residents in other specialties.

PGY1 Year

Rotation Duration Location / Notes

Family Medicine

16 weeks

Assigned family practice

Family Medicine - selective

4 weeks

Family practice – either assigned family practice or a different practice

Elective

4 weeks

Review Elective Rotation Policy Note: Up to 12 weeks of electives outside of Southwestern ON is permissible, 4 weeks of which can be taken out-of-Ontario over the course of your entire 2 year training program

Palliative Care

4 weeks

Windsor - Inpatient hospital palliative care, Outpatient Clinic, or Hospice

Pediatrics

4 weeks

Windsor - Pediatric Clinical Teaching Unit

Obstetrics/Gynecology

4 weeks

Windsor

General Surgery

4 weeks

Windsor

Medicine

4 weeks

Windsor - General Internal Medicine (CTU) clinical teaching unit and ambulatory experience.

Medicine

 

 4 weeks

Windsor - Ambulatory (office and clinic) experience.

Medicine - Geriatrics

4 weeks

Windsor

PGY2 Year

Rotation Duration Location / Notes

Family Medicine

16 weeks

Assigned family practice

Rural Family Medicine

8 weeks

Guidelines:
-The practice must be chosen from the list of Community Site Profiles provided by postgraduate program of practices within our catchment area and must be staffed by a preceptor, who has an appointment in the Family Medicine at Western University
-The community must not occur in a city/town with an academic health sciences centre or tertiary care hospital
-The practice must provide for expsoure to a full spectrum family practice that commonly includes working in two or more settings
-The practice must include office practice plus two or more of the following: inpatient care, emergency shifts or coverage, intrapartum obstetrics, house calls, surgical assisting, GP-anesthesia, nursing home or chronic hospital care

Adult Emergency

4 weeks

Windsor

Behavioral Medicine

(In effect for PGY2s in 2024/25 academic year)

4 weeks

General Adult Psychiatry Clinic at HDGH and Concurrent Disorders Program (addictions), Centre for Problem Gambling and Digital Dependency (CPGDD), Wellness Program for Extended Psychosis (WPEP), and tertiary inpatient Psychiatry at TNI.

Core Selective

8 weeks

Any rotation within Southwestern Ontario

Electives

16 weeks

(12 weeks for PGY2s in 2024/25 academic year)

Review Elective Rotation Policy Note: Up to 12 weeks of electives outside of Southwestern Ontario is permissible, 4 weeks of which can be taken out-of-Ontario over the course of your entire 2 year training program

Other mandatory requirements for completion of residency