Postgraduate Report

The Family Medicine Postgraduate Program would like to sincerely thank Dr. David Huffman for his years of service as the Chatham Site Director and wish him well in his future endeavours.  Dr. Huffman will continue to mentor residents as a preceptor at the Chatham site.

Following the completion of the second iteration CaRMS match, we are pleased to report that our program has filled all our residency positions.

June has been a busy month for our residents!  On June 21 we held Resident Project Day in person at the Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine where the PGY2 and PGY3 residents presented on their research or quality improvement projects on a wide range of topics: Resident Project Day Abstracts.

On June 23 we congratulated and celebrated our graduating residents at our first in person Graduation Celebration at the Great Hall since 2019.  It was wonderful to feel the excitement and vibe amongst residents, family, friends and faculty. We wish our residents the very best as they venture out into practice or into additional enhanced skills training programs in July.  It has been a pleasure training you over the past couple of years! 

Congratulations to the 2022/23 Family Medicine Award Winners:

Resident Awards:

Dr. Frank J. Butson Resident Award in Family Medicine – Dr. Ivana Burcul
Lilija and Janis Strauts Award – Dr. Jillian Ross
Leonora Sheppard Award in Family Medicine – Dr. Courtney Francis & Dr. Jacob McGavin
Jo-Anne Hammond Family Medicine Resident Award – Dr. Katharine McLaughlin
City of Windsor Family Physicians Award – Dr. Corey Parent
Windsor Resident – FM Postgraduate Award for Academic Leadership – Dr. Mary Ann Zokvic
Department of Family Medicine: Outstanding Resident Award – Dr. Marcus Pieterman

Research Awards:

Department of Family Medicine: Dr. Ron Christie Prize for Best Overall Project – Drs. Colin Gunn, Jimmy Ha, Matthew Hewak, Paul Phares & Aaron Wang – also nominated for the CFPC Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship
Department of Family Medicine: Best Research Project – Drs. Jacob McGavin & Neil Sengupta – also nominated for the CFPC Research Award for Family Medicine Resident
Department of Family Medicine:  Best Resident Project Presentation (PGY3) – Dr. John Cameron (Age Over 70 Oncology Admission Study)
Honourable Mentions (PGY3) – Dr. Alan Tan (Appraising the Top Evidence in Emergency Medicine 2 (A-TEEM 2)) & Drs. Adam Devon & Ryan Vamos (Developing a National Resident Symposium on Sport and Exercise Medicine in Partnership with the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM))
Department of Family Medicine:  Best Resident Project Presentation (PGY2) – Drs. Vivian Tia, Timothy Varghese & Shifaz Veettil (Increasing Bone Mineral Density Screening in Men at VFMC)
Honourable Mentions (PGY2) – Dr. Marcus Pieterman (Training of Canadian Family Medicine Residents for POCUS Screening of AAAs: A Feasibility Study) & Drs. Michael Mallender & Riaz Karmali (Aiming to Improve the Care of mTBI Patients in the Clinical Setting Using an Evidence-based Approach)
CFPC Family Medicine Resident Scholarship – Dr. Matthew Ladda

Teacher Awards:

Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – London  - Dr. Sonny Cejic
Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Rural / Regional - Dr. Kyle Carter
Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Windsor - Dr. Jennifer Bondy
Best Adjunct Non-Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – London – Dr. Elena Matusa
Best Adjunct Non-Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Rural / Regional – Dr. Shawn Segeren
Best Adjunct Non-Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Windsor – Dr. Pasquale Montaleone
Best Specialist Teacher Award – Dr. Munsif Bhimani (Emergency Medicine – London)
DFM Allied Health Care Recognition Award – Heidi Lalich, RN (Nurse, Mount Brydges)