If make-up time is required, the PGME office will set aside funding to cover the resident's remaining months of training. The Faculty will inform the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and your funding source of your leave. During Residency Preamble 1. The average age of entrants into medical school is increasing so that the number of residents pursuing their medical training during their prime reproductive years is also increasing. Pregnancies are not always planned.
Residents often have well-established partners who are ready to start a family.
The establishment of clinical practice with new commitments to patients and group partners along with the heavy financial burden usually being carried early in one's career, often influence a resident not to wait until after residency before starting a family. It is relatively easier to interrupt clinical work as a resident than as an established family physician or specialist. There is no need to find locums. Furthermore, if one goes through a complicated pregnancy, it becomes much more difficult to find a replacement on short notice, especially if one is working in a more rural setting. As a learning experience, the intrinsic value of going through pregnancy and parenthood during training should not be overlooked.