Our radiologist is an exceptional teacher, and residents are encouraged to arrange informal radiologic teaching sessions with him. Obstetrics Residents have the opportunity to take part in full prenatal care in the office, though obviously on four month rotations are not able to follow patients from their preconceptual visits to delivery and follow-up. The obstetrical load involves approximately thirty normal deliveries per year. Once again this allows the residents to develop skills involving normal obstetrics and management of common complications, as well as appropriate assessment, stabilization and transfer of more complicated patients to higher centres when appropriate. Community Involvement Residents are also given the opportunity to become involved in the community in which they are working.
Recreational opportunities abound in the area.
As well there are many sports groups and service organizations. Directly through exposure by myself the resident will have opportunity to observe how I integrate my involvement with the Minor Hockey Association both at the Executive, coaching, training, and parent levels into the busy medical practice schedule. We are also occasionally asked to provide some medical advice to the school which my children attend, and three times a year co-ordinate and run a pediculosis screening program for the 450 children and teachers at that school. The resident will also have opportunity for exposure to a special group on watershed ecosystem rehabilitation, and other environmental activities I am involved in. Through these organizations and personal involvements, the resident can gain an appreciation on how he or she can be involved with the community in which they work, outside of their medical practice.