RVH and ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ partner to further health care education in Simcoe Muskoka
Aug. 1, 2024
Resident physicians from experienced hands-on obstetrics training with high-fidelity manikins at ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ this week. The two organizations are longstanding partners in furthering education and building the healthcare workforce in the region.
While RVH boasts an impressive array of medical simulators, none have obstetrical capabilities. Fortunately, among their extensive, world-class simulation equipment spread across multiple campuses, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵpossesses high-fidelity manikins, including manikin newborns, that can replicate births and obstetrical emergencies.
Physician residents receive practical experience in safe, immersive environment
Simulators have become an important part of medical training, helping learners identify gaps in knowledge and practice, allowing for targeted educational interventions that further improve competencies and ensure they are well-prepared for real-world situations. Having access to Georgian’s training technology means FMTU residents on their obstetrics rotation will now receive practical experience to develop and refine skills and improve clinical expertise in a safe and immersive environment.
Among those who participated in the training were about nine FMTU residents, medical professionals from RVH, including a respiratory therapist, emergency medicine physician, intensivist and medical director, and family medicine physicians that specialist in labour and delivery, as well as ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵHealth, Wellness and Sciences leadership, professors and simulation specialists.
Georgian, RVH have longstanding, collaborative relationship
As the largest family medicine residency program in Simcoe Muskoka, RVH’s FMTU is a vital source of new family medicine physicians, helping to improve the availability of family medicine physicians in the area. Since it began in 2009, the FMTU has trained 116 family medicine residents, with 66 staying in the area to set up their own practices or take over practices for retiring physicians, provide temporary coverage for area physicians or work in RVH’s Emergency, Hospitalist and Palliative departments.
RVH and Georgian, which has its Barrie Campus right next to the hospital, have a longstanding relationship of mutual collaboration. This simulation event is another example of their strong practice-education partnership, including strong support for Georgian’s nursing programs over the last 50 years, and integral advocacy that has contributed to the launch of Georgian’s Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing program.