Community Medicine Residency Program

PGY1 and PGY2

Emphasis in the first two years of the community medicine residency is on solidifying clinical and decision making skills which may be obtained by rotations in internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery ,family medicine or emergency medicine. Some residents may choose to complete the requirements for family medicine certification which is commonly offered in Canadian Community Medicine programs.

Clinical rotations

Infectious diseases

This clinical rotation allows the resident to manage a variety of infectious disease under the mentorship of an infectious disease specialist in the setting of hospital consultations and ambulatory care clinics.  

Microbiology

This laboratory investigation allows the resident to participate in the routine collection, preparation, isolation and identification of microbiological specimens in a tertiary care/provincial laboratory under the guidance of a microbiologist.

Infection control

This clinical rotation allows residents to participate in nosocomial and community infection control practice (surveillance, isolation practices, quality control, outbreak investigation, contact investigations) within the setting of a tertiary care hospital or community setting.

Occupational medicine

This rotation gives the resident the opportunity to work with an occupational medicine physician.

CDC (outbreaks, immunization, notifiable diseases methods, surveillance methods, infectious control)

This rotation provides the resident with a brief introduction to the content and methods of communicable disease control by moving the resident through various assignments with different CDC practitioners.

Environment (air, water, sewage, food, built environments, ICS training, inner city)

This rotation allows the resident to experience the various components of environmental health by spending time with environmental health officers and attending a series of site visits.

Travel medicine

This rotation provides the resident with a brief exposure to the prevention of disease in travelers.

STI clinic

This rotation provides the resident with experience in the diagnosis and treatment of STI within the setting of a STI clinic.

TB clinic

This rotation allows the resident to diagnose and treat patients referred to a provincial TB clinic for Northern Alberta. As well residents will be exposed to the methods of contact tracing and TB screening.

Clinical rotations in STD/HIV, tuberculosis, and international travel, provide an experiential focus for these important public health topics, plus an opportunity to examine how services are planned and delivered on a regional population basis.