Subspecialty training is also available in those areas particularly relevant to family practice. Residents spend one month on an ambulatory orthopedics rotation sometime during their two year program. Two to 3 months of obstetrics is provided, often in community hospitals. All residents are expected to follow and deliver prenatal patients from their own practices in the teaching units. This rotation emphasises consultative psychiatry, as well as individual and family counselling.
Electives are available in the areas of family counselling, addiction and geriatric psychiatry.
One month of the program is devoted to a geriatrics rotation usually in an institution which provides ambulatory, community and hospital based experience. Paediatric training occurs primarily at selected community hospitals and the Hospital for Sick Children. Areas chosen should be relevant to family medicine. Several community hospitals, long-term care institutions and other health care institutions and facilities in Toronto and environs are also used. There are also 35 community teaching practice sites used in the greater Toronto area and throughout Ontario.