{"id":16438,"date":"2020-10-22T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=16438"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:34:33","slug":"new-program-aims-to-hook-student-doctors-on-the-south-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/new-program-aims-to-hook-student-doctors-on-the-south-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"New program aims to hook student doctors on the South Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Shore doctors are lining up to prepare the next generation of physicians.<\/p>\n

The South Shore Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship program recently launched in Liverpool, Bridgewater and Lunenburg will see third year medical students from Dalhousie University spend the year in those communities.<\/p>\n

The aim of the clerkship is to entice future doctors to spend time in rural settings by offering them more hands-on experience than they are likely to get in urban centers where they have to compete for clinical time with fourth year med students and residents.<\/p>\n

Site director Greg Thibodeau says the program wouldn\u2019t have happened without local doctors stepping forward to teach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started with maybe 25 interested physicians two years ago and we\u2019re well over 55 now, and that\u2019s across disciplines,\u201d said Thibodeau. \u201cEven since the program launched three weeks ago, there\u2019s still physicians who\u2019ve said, I\u2019d like to teach now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those physicians, practicing different specialties across the three hospitals in the South Shore, have each committed to provide a set number of hours every week to instructing the students.<\/p>\n

Thibodeau says that broad range of training will be beneficial to the students no matter where they focus their practice in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhysicians that are in the rural setting have a tendency of being very adept, flexible, they do more with less, and they\u2019re versatile because they\u2019re able to expand their skill sets over multiple settings and in multiple situations,\u201d said Thidodeau.<\/p>\n

He says it\u2019s not just students who benefit from this arrangement. By adding teaching to their responsibilities physician instructors benefit as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes us more pensive and reflective and deliberate as we engage in our practice because we want to teach the best of the best approaches to those that come after us,\u201d said Thibodeau.<\/p>\n

A total of five students were selected for the clerkship. Two are based in Liverpool, two in Bridgewater and one in Lunenburg. One of the requirements of the program is for the students to live in the communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause if they\u2019re taking call or if they\u2019re delivering a baby or if they\u2019re working a night shift we want them to be accessible in the community,\u201d said Thibodeau. \u201cPart of the program is that they are indoctrinated, or at least part of the communities on other levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Thibodeau

Thibodeau welcomes LIC students for orientation. Photo credit: NOW Lunenburg County<\/p><\/div>\n

The Health Services Foundation of the South Shore, South Shore Regional Hospital Auxiliary and Queens General Hospital Foundation helped to make the program possible by contributing $890,000 to create duty rooms, lounges, and learning space at South Shore Regional and Queens General Hospitals. Those new spaces will also support doctor recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n

The South Shore is the second location in the province to offer the clerkship after Cape Breton piloted the program last year.<\/p>\n

Dalhousie University's goal is to have one third of its medical students take part in the clerkship program around the province over the next four years.<\/p>\n

Reported by Ed Halverson\u00a0<\/strong>
\nE-mail:\u00a0edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>
\nTwitter: @edwardhalverson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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