On September 18, 2024, the McGill Department of Family Medicine, in collaboration with the CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and the Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation, opened the Lakeshore University Family Medicine Group (U-FMG), a Family Medicine teaching clinic at the Lakeshore General Hospital. This clinic has now become the 12th home base to residents in the McGill Family Medicine program which counts over 200 residents. The Department of Family Medicine has an additional 35 training sites in rural Quebec, stretching from Nunavik to Gatineau.
Training more family physicians into our public healthcare system
The McGill Department of Family Medicine U-FMGs are teaching sites devoted to creating, preserving, and disseminating knowledge and skills specific to the practice of family medicine. Their mission is to provide high quality health services and offer university- and community-based education for our medical students and residents.
“I am very proud of the opening of this new Family Medicine clinic with our longstanding clinical partners, the CIUSSS de l’Ouest de l’Île de MontrĂ©al, which echoes our commitment to increasing the percentage of family doctors to meet Quebecer’s health care needs. We recognize that family physicians have a central role in the delivery of health care in Canada and are aware of the social responsibility of our facilities,” says Dr. Marion Dove, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ. “This new opening reflects the hard work of several department teams and their dedication to training more family physicians for clinical practice in our public healthcare system.”
A promising training site for future residents
The clinic, which aims to welcome up to 12,000 patients annually, will also train residents in family medicine, as well as students and interns in various disciplines.
“Many of the new teaching physicians at the Lakeshore U-FMG are graduates of the McGill Family Medicine Residency program and they are excited to start planning for the arrival of four residents in July 2025,” says Dr. Fanny Hersson-Edery, Program Director for Postgraduate Medical Education at the Department of Family Medicine. “The new clinic is equipped with direct supervision of residents through a camera system by teaching physicians, a comfortable resident lounge and direct access to the Lakeshore’s state of the art simulation center. The Lakeshore U-FMG promises to be a popular teaching site for residents!”
“The site is not just a family medicine clinic that will be seeing patients. It is a community pillar that will be training future family doctors, seeing patients that do not have access to primary care and innovating on a different level," says Dr. Shady Abid, Medical Director and Chief of Lakeshore Family Medicine Group.
The Department of Family Medicine is excited to work closely with the CIUSSS de l'Ouest de l'Ile de Montréal to expand our academic mission and to build on our commitment to improve health education, capacity and care for the population here. Thanks to our partnerships and our exceptional medical community that trains learners, we are advancing primary care for people in Quebec, Canada and around the world.
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