Clinical
The clinical role of the Department
of Family Medicine is to provide a full
range of primary care services including
obstetrical care, newborn care in hospital,
and regional and inpatient palliative care
and consultation. The Department of Family
Medicine fulfils this role under the SEAMO
Family Health Network (FHN) agreement
(2003 May 01).
The Department's role in providing comprehensive
continuous care, disease prevention, and
health promotion services is fulfilled through
its core program in the Family Medicine
Centre at Hotel Dieu Hospital. The services
provided to the practice patients include
general assessment and provision of preventive
care and health promotion, diagnosing and
treating acute and chronic health problems
with appropriate specialty assistance, provision
of full reproductive and new born care,
providing mental health care and appropriate
supportive counseling, providing child health
care and also supportive in hospital care.
The group clinical teaching practice serves
a population of patients from Kingston and
surrounding communities on a 24 hours a
day, seven days a week basis. In addition
they provide services to the Ongwanda
Group Homes for the Developmentally
Disabled and the Rideau Regional Centre
in Smiths Falls and continue to provide
services for their patients after admission
to nursing homes.
Within the acute care setting the department
works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary
teams associated with a number of services
and programs to address patient care and
clinical practice issues.
Research
The Department contributes to the discipline
of family medicine by conducting appropriate,
funded research and evaluation projects.
The Centre for Studies in Primary Care and
the Bosnia Project are the main foci of
work. In fact, the Centre for Studies in
Primary Care involves collaborations with,
or the participation of, other medical and
non-medical departments from Queens and
other universities.
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