By the end of your residency, you will have achieved the competencies identified by the College of Family Physicians for Care of Adults for mental health.
CFPC Priority Topics include:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Suicide
- Schizophrenia
- Grief
- Bad News
- Stress
- Learning
- Eating disorders
To help you acquire these, you will rotate through selected clinical rotations, be supervised during your Family Medicine clinics, and have academic teaching sessions. You will also be expected to do your own self-study to complement and fill in gaps for preparation for your future practice and your exam.
Below are the clinical rotations/experiences that will support your acquisition of these clinical skills through all the stages of clinical disease.
Clinical Rotations/ Exposure (click for rotation objectives)
-Family Medicine Unit-Focus on Mental Health
- Adult Psychiatry Emergency room
- Child Psychiatry Emergency room (objectives to come soon)
- Pediatric Inpatient/Ward (Eating disorders)
Rotation Objectives for Mental Health
Additional experiences
You will learn the patient-centred interviewing through various other facilitated methods during your FMU rotations including:
- Tape reviews of recorded patient interviews
- Practice in Simulated Office Orals (SOO’s)