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Graduating Doctors Opt To Stay The success of Yarmouth Regional Hospital’s family medicine residency program can be measured by the number of graduates who decide to stay in southwest Nova to practice family medicine. All five of this year’s graduating class of family medicine specialists are staying on, says Dr. Abir Hussein, site director of the residency program which accepted its first group of five residents in 2014.... Each year, five residents come from across Canada to enter the two-year program which is designed to train family doctors for rural areas. Each is paired with a local doctor (called a preceptor) and undergoes training in a wide range of medical areas by the specialists on staff. There are advantages for both the residents and the community, Dr. Hussein says. They have the opportunity to participate in a family practice and maximum clinical exposure and the opportunity to participate in all areas of family medicine, she says. They cover shifts in Emergency, deliver babies, and participate in surgeries throughout the two years, unlike traditional approaches where they’d do a block of time for each area. By the time they graduate, they are very competent and confident in all these services because they’ve been exposed to them constantly. And by that time, they’ve developed strong relationships with the community and the medical staff, so they feel very comfortable in establishing their own practices in the area. They don’t want to waste that precious connection, Dr. Hussein says. The many people in southwest Nova who still lack a family doctor are very happy to have them.

Local girl comes the Blazes Home and we're so glad she did!!

One of our amazing Doc's who've gotten us through this time....

Latest update of data analysis by Dr. Moses.

Meals on wheels is back up and running thanks to funding from the Province of NS, Emera and Efficiency NS. Big thanks to Dr. Strang's office for guiding us to it safely. Our Meals on wheels delivery person for the summer is Erica d'Entremont. Erica has been doing Meals on wheels whenever she could for the past four years and will now be doing all the deliveries with proper equipment and precautions. We're so happy to be providing this valuable service once again!