Our clinical curriculum is horizontalized and aligned with the Triple C competency-based curriculum mandated by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). This longitudinal approach to clinical rotations ensures that residents receive extensive, continual exposure to the Family Medicine Units, allowing them to develop strong, patient-centred care skills across a wide spectrum of practice settings.
Clinical Domain
Our clinical curriculum is organized by clinical domain:
- Maternal / Newborn Care
- Child / Adolescent Care
- Care of Adults
- Care of the Elderly
- Palliative Care
- Procedure Skills
- Mental / Behavioural Health
- Indigenous Health
- Care of Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations
These clinical domains represent comprehensive care across the life cycle. Associated clinical rotations and experiences takes place in a variety of accredited teaching settings:
- Primary care in the community / office setting (FMUs/GMF-Us)
- Emergency rooms
- Hospitals
- Home and long-term care
For each of these clinical domains, residents work towards the CFPC competencies identified within CanMEDS-FM, the CFPC assessment objectives, and the Core Professional Activities (CPAs) from the Residency Training Profile. This includes a variety of exposures through all stages of clinical disease — from prevention and screening, to acute and chronic illness, to palliation.
Rotations Overview
Because we aim to offer our residents the best of each clinical milieu, the organization of clinical exposures to domains of care varies between sites, occurring via block rotations, longitudinal experiences, or a combination of the two.
For an overview of the rotations offered at all teaching units, please see the 
PGME_Site_Overview_Table_2025
Rotations and Exposure to Clinical Domains
The following list illustrates a sample of the rotations that offer residents exposure to the clinical domains.
- Maternal / Newborn Care
- Family Medicine rotations and Family Medicine (Focus on Parent-Child Health)
- Obstetrics
- Rural
- Child / Adolescent Care
- Family Medicine rotations and Family Medicine (Focus on Parent-Child Health)
- Ambulatory Pediatrics
- Pediatric Emergency
- Pediatric Inpatient
- Rural
- Care of Adults and Care of the Elderly
- Family Medicine rotations
- Adult Emergency
- Adult Inpatient
- Care of the Elderly
- Rural
- Acute Care Selective
- Palliative Care
- Procedure Skills
- Family Medicine rotations and Family Medicine (Focus on Procedure Skills)
- Pediatric Emergency
- Adult Emergency
- Obstetrics
- Adult Inpatient
- Rural
- Mental / Behavioural Health
- Family Medicine rotations and Family Medicine (Focus on Mental Health)
- Rural
- Indigenous Health
- Rural
- Care of Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations
- Family Medicine rotations
- Rural
