General Surgery - Windsor
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Dr. Takeshi Takahashi MD, FRCSC, FACS Academic Director of Surgery for Schulich Medical School, Windsor Campus, Chief of Surgery at Windsor Regional Hospital |
Family Medicine Residents have a four-week rotation in General Surgery during their first year of Residency. The rotation can be at the Metropolitan or Ouellette Sites at Windsor Regional Hospital, working with any of the 10 full time General Surgeons who are adjunct professors at Schulich. One particular characteristic for the Windsor Campus is the opportunity to work one on one with the surgeon, given the small teams of learners assigned to every preceptor, which enhances the educational experience. The Family Medicine Resident becomes part of the surgical team during the rotation, and is expected to participate in all the activities of the service. The experience acquired in this rotation should allow the Family Medicine Resident to better understand the experience that their future patients will have when referred for a surgical consultation, improve their diagnostic skills and experience for patients with surgical disease, and even consider and prepare for other possible areas of work in Family Medicine, such as Surgical Assisting.
The point of view of a Family Medicine Resident during a General Surgery Rotation
General Surgery is a service to which family physicians quite frequently send referrals. The rotation provides great exposure to all aspects of the specialty, allowing you to improve your own approach to, and referral pattern for, common issues. In an average week, you can expect to spend time in endoscopy, seeing the approach to both screening and diagnostic tests; round on patients in the mornings, gaining familiarity with postop patients, their expected course, complications, and management; assist on OR cases, both laparoscopic and open, allowing you to practice surgical skills that can be applied as a practicing surgical assistant; and see consults and follow-ups in the office. There is also a component of call, usually done from home, coming in to hospital to see consults; seeing these acute patients is a key opportunity to learn to recognize a surgical abdomen, and when patients with abdominal complaints or other potential surgical problems need to be sent directly to the Emergency Department.
*Dr. Jean-Marc Beausoleil, MD, PGY1 Family Medicine – Windsor Campus
