YARMOUTH — Dalhousie University’s medical school will establish a new family medicine residency training program at Yarmouth Regional Hospital with the creation of five new residency training spots per year. The first group of two-year residents will begin work in July 2014, said the provincial Health and Wellness Department. A residency program in family medicine for Yarmouth means more area doctors, said Dr. Mike Fleming, president of Doctors Nova Scotia. “The majority of their time would be here in Yarmouth or the surrounding communities doing family medicine and the other rotations in surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology,” Fleming said Thursday in Yarmouth. Some doctors may choose to stay in southwestern Nova Scotia as a result of spending their residency there. “That’s the great benefit of educating the group in the community,” Fleming said. “It gives them exposure to the kind of medicine that is practised in a rural community. “We’re trying to promote recruitment and retention of physicians, especially family physicians, to the rural communities of Nova Scotia, and this is a golden opportunity to do that.” The province funded a similar residency training program in the Annapolis Valley in 2011, said a news release. The province released its physician resource plan in 2012 that identified several ways to improve the management of its physician workforce.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:54:24 +0000
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