McMaster University - Family Medicine - Brantford- Indigenous Health Hub

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McMaster University – Family Medicine – Brantford- Indigenous Health Hub

Family Medicine

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Dr. Heather Waters

Program Director

Brooke Luke

Manager, Education Operations

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Program Highlights

The Brantford- Indigenous Health Hub, B-IHH (formerly called Grand Erie Six Nations, GE6N) has been a teaching site for many years with learners coming from both the Hamilton and Waterloo campuses, prior to the Residency Program. The B-IHH program emphasizes community and preceptor based training in family medicine. The curriculum follows the traditional block rotation format.

Core Family Medicine clinical teaching sites are located in Brantford, Delhi, Paris with options to go to Simcoe. Residents indicate their location preference via an internal match following the CaRMS match. The internal match is designed to assist in matching residents with supervisors that share the same interest.

Six Nations of the Grand River & Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations are located near Brantford and are serviced by local family physicians and the Brant Community Healthcare System which allows learners to interact with Indigenous populations throughout their clinical rotations.

A two-year longitudinal curriculum on Indigenous Health is delivered by local faculty and community members. Sessions are incorporated into core elements of the residency program and supplemented with site visits to local Indigenous communities.

Unique elective opportunity in palliative care incorporating hospital, hospice and home visits with a team of family physicians who have a special interest in palliative medicine.

Simulation lab monthly sessions led by local Emergency physicians.

Point-of-Care Ultrasound course available for all B-IHH residents to complete at a reduced resident rate.

1:1 preceptor to resident ratio in a community-based learning environment.

Key Stats

CMG CaRMS Positions: 3
IMG CaRMS Positions: 1
Preceptors: 11
Practice Sites: 10 (three family health teams)
Approximately 21,000 patients.

Contacts

Dr. Rebecca Dallman – Site Director
Natalie Graham, Education Associate – nagraham@mcmaster.ca

Salary Information

Post graduate salaries and benefits differ by province and are determined by two things: your training year, and the province you work in. See below the salaries and benefits for McMaster University - Family Medicine - Brantford- Indigenous Health Hub.

Ontario
	Effective October 4th, 2023
PGY1	$67,044.99
PGY2	$72,804.48
PGY3	$78,190.61
PGY4	$84,712.26
PGY5	$90,073.03
PGY6	$95,190.86
PGY7	$99,836.15
PGY8	$105,844.41
PGY9	$109,734.47


Professional Leave	7 working days/year Additional time off provided for writing any CND or US certification exam, leave includes the exam date and reasonable travel time to and from the exam site. Additional RCPSC & CFPC Certification Examination Prep Time Subject to operational requirements and at the request of a resident, a resident will not be scheduled for call duties for a period up to fourteen days prior to a CFPC or RCPSC certification exam. Subject to operational requirements and at the request of a resident, a resident will be granted up to seven consecutive days off during one of the four weeks preceding a CFPC or RCPSC certification exam.
Annual Vacation	4 weeks
Meal Allowance	No
Frequency of Calls	1 in 4 In-hospital, 1 in 3 home
Pregnancy Leave	17 weeks
Parental Leave	35 weeks, 37 weeks if resident did not take pregnancy leave
Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan	Top-up to 84% 27 weeks for women who take pregnancy and parental leave; 12 weeks for parents on stand-alone parental leave.
Provincial Health Insurance	Yes
Extended Health Insurance	Yes
Provincial Dues (% of salary)	1.3%
Dental Plan	85% paid for eligible expenses
CMPA Dues Paid	Under current arrangements, residents are rebated by Ministry of Health and Long Term Care for dues in excess of $300.
Long-Term Disability Insurance	Yes – 70% of salary, non-taxable.
Statutory and Floating Holidays	2 weeks leave with full pay and benefits; 10 stat days plus 1 personal floater. Residents are entitled to at least 5 consecutive days off over the Christmas or New Year period, which accounts for 3 statutory holidays (Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day), and 2 weekend days.
Life Insurance	Yes, 2x salary
Salary and Benefit Continuance	A resident that can’t work due to illness or injury will have salary and benefits maintained for 6 months or until end of appointment (whichever occurs first)
Call Stipend	Regular: $127.60 in-hospital; $63.80 home call or qualifying shift on shift-based services. Weekend premium: $140.36 in-hospital; $70.18 home call or qualifying shift on shift-based services.

Updated October 4, 2023

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Grand Erie Six Nations

Resident Experience

Edrea Khong

R2

The Grand Erie Six Nations (GE6N) site has phenomenal clinical experiences. For core family medicine rotations, there are preceptors based not only in Brantford, a mid-sized suburban community, but also in surrounding rural towns. This allows residents to pursue training in either a suburban or rural community depending on interests and career plans. In addition, we have fantastic clinical preceptors and mentors on our core off-service rotations in Brantford. We are the only residents based at Brantford General Hospital (BGH) and are not typically on other services at the same time as visiting learners, meaning we get one-on-one time with staff and are prioritized for learning opportunities. BGH also has a large catchment area, meaning we get great patient volumes, variety, and acuity. The continuity in Brantford also allows us to become familiar with all areas of our hospital, and for hospital staff to become familiar with us. This makes BGH truly feel like a home, and not just another place we rotate through for placements.

Being small, our site is able to tailor the resident learning experience to each learner’s interests. We do our own call scheduling and shift scheduling while on ER (with guidance), which means we are easily able to plan work around our busy lives. In addition, it is easy for us to access opportunities in our community during horizontal elective time while on our core family medicine blocks. Finally, as BGH is a community site and not an academic centre, our physicians do not rely on residents, but rather welcome us when we are working. This allows for emphasis of learning over service and makes sure we can get the most out of every case. At GE6N, your residency experience is truly what you make of it – and here, the possibilities are endless!

As a smaller site with 5-6 residents per year, we tend to be a tight knit group. Although things have been more difficult due to the pandemic, we are able to have some small gatherings, whether for social reasons or some program/academic-related activities. Our graduates tend to have fairly diverse practice interests (clinic, hospitalist, ER, addictions, women’s health, or palliative to name a few recently) which fosters a diverse learning experience and provides support to those interested in the same areas. In addition, our site has a very high retention rate, so many of our graduates stay in Brant or Norfolk counties to practice (or come back after additional training). That is the biggest compliment a site can have, and a true testament to how great it is here!

This has been somewhat limited due to the pandemic, but there are opportunities to be involved in medical education through McMaster, in sports locally, and everything else you might expect. Brantford (our homebase) has really great biking/running trails and is beginning to become much more multicultural as well. There are lots of great farms if fresh produce and cheese or fall farm activities are of interest, as well as several microbreweries. Anything in Hamilton is easily accessible and getaways to the Niagara area are only an hour or so away! Social time with family, friends, and co-residents is important!

Lots of things have already been mentioned above, but in short: great camaraderie within the resident group and between cohorts, a smaller site allowing for enhanced learning opportunities, fantastic clinical teachers who support and care about you, and ultimately, the ability to make your residency what you want it to be. It is also important to mention that should you ever need to take a sick day, whether for physical or mental wellness, the process is very simple and non-judgmental. You are not required to get a doctor’s note or provide a reason for a sick day, protecting your confidentiality and making it easier to take the time if you need. Of course, if the issue requires time away from the program, this is well supported as well both from a site and program standpoint.

Completing residency (and exams!) and getting out into independent practice. Second year of residency is more geared towards your interests as opposed to covering core rotations and I have a lot of interesting and exciting rotations still to complete (electives, selectives, rural). The program has prepared me very well to this point and I look forward to continuing to build upon my knowledge base and independence. It is definitely a nerve-wracking time, but we all have to make that transition eventually!

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