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Family Medicine-Enhanced Skills: Family Practice Anesthesia

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Program Highlights
Curriculum
Requirements
How to Apply

TMU’s one-year Family Medicine-Enhanced Skills: Family Practice Anesthesia (FPA) residency enables family physicians to deliver competent, compassionate anesthesia care as part of their practice. The FPA program gives trainees the knowledge, skills and sound judgment necessary to provide anesthesia care to low-risk patients undergoing simple procedures, particularly in rural and remote communities.

The College of Family Physicians of Canada Residency Accreditation Committee requested additional information prior to making an accreditation decision for this program. This is an expected part of the process for new programs. The program is confident that accreditation will be granted at the next meeting of this committee on October 17th and 18th, 2024. If the program does not receive accreditation, these residency positions will be removed from the CaRMS match and candidates’ application fees will be refunded.

 

 

Program Info:

Faculty:
School of Medicine

Program Format:
Full Time: 1 year

Program Director:
Dr. Shazia Ambreen

Board Eligibility:
Certificate of Added Competence in Family Practice Anesthesia

Accreditation:
CFPC (Pending)

Application Deadline:
September 10, 2024 at 12 p.m. ET

  • Training in both urban and rural environments
  • Wide variety of training blocks including pediatrics, endoscopy, labour and delivery, intensive care unit/post-acute care unit, acute pain service and chronic pain clinic
  • Focus on providing an educational experience with culturally humble and sensitive competencies
  • Unique Leadership, Education, Advocacy, Research, and Non-Clinical (LEARN) Time program enables residents to tailor their learning experiences and launch their careers

Sample Rotation Schedule

Transition to Family Practice Anesthesia

  • 2 Blocks: Urban Anesthesia
  • 1 Block: Rural Anesthesia

Core Family Practice Anesthesia

  • 1 Block: Pediatrics
  • 1 Block: Endoscopy
  • 1 Block: Labour and Delivery
  • 1 Block: Elective
  • 1 Block: Intensive Care Unit /Post Acute Care Unit
  • 1 Block: Urban Anesthesia

Transition to Practice

  • 1 Block: Outpatient Clinic
  • 1 Block: Acute Pain/Chronic Pain Clinic
  • 2 Blocks: Rural Block

Foundational Curriculum

Our comprehensive, competency-based Foundational Curriculum covers diverse areas including equity, diversity and inclusion in medical care, research strategies, communication skills and patient safety. Our unique LEARN Time program also offers individualized time, space and resources for residents to focus on areas of specialized interest.

Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada and meet both the basic criteria (external link)  and the Ontario-specific criteria (external link)  in order to apply to the FM-ES: Family Practice Anesthesia program.

Residents who complete the FM-ES: Family Practice Anesthesia program will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Added Competence in Family Practice Anesthesia.

Residents will train at four sites in the western GTA with whom TMU has clinical affiliations. Learn more about these affiliates on the map below.

Additional major training sites may be added for core program rotations.

How to Apply

Applications to the FM-ES: Family Practice Anesthesia program at TMU are only accepted through CaRMS. Visit our program description page (external link)  for detailed application requirements and to apply. All applicants will be notified through CaRMS Online and TMU will send email invitations directly to applicants selected for an interview.

Note that three reference letters are required with your application. Letters from your current family medicine program director or site director, a physician/preceptor and a non-physician clinical referee are mandatory.

Learn more and apply  (external link, opens in new window)