Oxford County will be seeing more family medicine residency doctors through an expanded program.
OXFORD COUNTY - More resident doctors will soon be training and caring for patients in Southwestern Ontario.
Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry is expanding its family medicine residency program through partnerships with Woodstock Hospital, Rural Roads Health Services and the Oxford Ontario Health Team. Regional academic director for Oxford and chief of staff at Woodstock Hospital, Dr. Ian Hons, talks about the roles the residents will take part in while in Oxford County.
"The physicians will spend time in family practice offices outside of the hospital here at Woodstock. They will do rotations through our hospital. They'll do rotations through Ingersoll and Tillsonburg Hospital, so that's Alexandra and Tillsonburg Memorial Hospital."
Residents will work closely with local physicians and health-care teams, with an emphasis on close mentorship, hands-on learning and increasing responsibility as they prepare for independent practice. Dr. Hons says there is a long-term objective for this program.
"Part of our goal is to help drive recruitment or retention and expansion of the healthcare workforce here in Oxford County."
The training for each resident will include emergency medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, internal medicine and palliative care, alongside comprehensive family medicine.

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