Community Medicine Residency Program

PGY4 & PGY5

Clinical Rotations

Inner City Health

The rotation provides the resident with experience in dealing with the issues facing the urban disadvantaged population.

Aboriginal Health/Multicultural Health

The rotation provides the resident with experience in dealing with the contemporary aboriginal and multicultural health issues.

Rural Public Health

This rotation provides the resident with experience in working in a rural public health setting.

Provincial Public Health

This rotation provides the resident with the experience of public health at the provincial level with mandates for notifiable disease collection, analysis and reporting; policy formation, inter and intra provincial  communications, liaison with regional public health offices.

Environmental Health

The rotation provides the resident the opportunity to work in local and provincial department of public health environment and understand how to apply the knowledge acquired in the academic year.

CDC

To understand how to assess and manage an environmental health issue.

The rotation provides the resident with exposure in communicable disease control in local as well as provincial public health departments.  The resident works with Medical Officers of Health, epidemiologists, public health nurses and environmental health officers in dealing with control of vaccine preventable diseases, enteric infections, bloodborne pathogens, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, travel-related illnesses and others of public health significance.

Health Status Assessment and Reporting

During this rotation the resident works with staff that produce health status/health needs reports.

Health Promotion/Disease Prevention

During this rotation the resident works with preceptors to develop and implement a health promotion approach to community health issues(s).

Health Planning

This rotation gives the resident experience in program planning in a regional health authority setting.

Risk Communication and Media Relations

This rotation provides the resident with the opportunity to apply the concepts learned in the academic course work. 

Disaster/Emergency Response Planning

This rotation provides the resident with the experience in planning for mass casualty events including bioterrorism and pandemic influenza.

Health Policy/Advocacy

The rotation builds upon the health promotion rotation and provides more specific experiences in policy and advocacy.

Management of Public Health Programs

This rotation provides the resident with experience of "shadowing" a senior manager in a public health department.