The majority of clinical rotations occur in the city of St. John’s. In the first year, residents spend four weeks in Grand Falls-Windsor (a town with a population of about 15,000 people, located approximately 4.5 hours from St. John’s), which is an active teaching site of Memorial University with a faculty of academic psychiatrists. Residents work directly with an addictions psychiatrist and also have the advantage of early exposure to rural psychiatry, should this be an area of interest.
PGY 2 residents in the Foundations stage of training have the option to spend part of their general psychiatry year in Grand Falls-Windsor. Residents who have availed of this opportunity have valued the experience. Similarly, residents can also spend up to six months in Saint John, New Brunswick, during PGY 2.
Grand Falls-Windsor also offers an excellent rotation in shared-care psychiatry in a multi-disciplinary clinic of family physicians and psychiatrists for PGY 4 residents.