Public Health & Preventive Medicine Program Information
PGY1 and PGY2
The emphasis in the first two years of the Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency is on solidifying clinical and decision-making skills which may be obtained by rotations in internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, family medicine or emergency medicine. Residents will also be introduced to Public Health and Preventive Medicine through weekly attendance at Academic Half Day and introductions to PH rotations typically Public Health and MedMicro at Provincial Laboratory.
Patient-Care rotations
(outbreaks, immunization, notifiable diseases methods, surveillance methods, infectious control)
This rotation provides the resident with a brief introduction to the content and methods of communicable disease control by moving the resident through various assignments with different CDC practitioners.
PGY2 to PGY5
Core PHPM Rotations
To understand how to assess and manage an environmental health issue.
The rotation provides the resident with exposure in communicable disease control in local as well as provincial public health departments. The resident works with Medical Officers of Health, epidemiologists, public health nurses and environmental health officers in dealing with control of vaccine preventable diseases, enteric infections, bloodborne pathogens, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, travel-related illnesses and others of public health significance.