It's June 30th so that means it's finally time to say goodbye to our first group of QBOL FM graduates! I'm happy to report that our residents were very successful in their licensing exams and are ready to move on to the next phases in their careers. For some, it's additional third year training and for others, starting into practice. From all, I expect big things! You have been a wonderful group to work with over the past two years.
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| QBOL residents and preceptors - a great team! |
We had a couple lovely events last week to mark this special occasion: a local QBOL celebration that was well attended by both residents and preceptors at the Brock House in Whitby and a formal graduation ceremony followed by a DFM party with awards presentations in Kingston.
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| Of course there was cake! |
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| Our residents at the graduation party in Kingston. |
I was ecstatic to see Dr. Aubrey Kassirer earn this year's Dr. Donald Potvin Memorial Award from the Department of Family Medicine for his outstanding work, never-ending enthusiasm, and positive role-modeling as an exemplary community Family Medicine Preceptor.
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| Some nice things being said about Dr. Kassirer. |
It's been over four years of work to get to this point. Starting with a great group of residents helped our site enormously but I know we would not have had nearly this amount of early success without the efforts of all our preceptors here, especially the members of my Site Committee, and to our many wonderful supports from the main site in Kingston, especially Dr. Karen Schultz, Queen's Family Medicine Program Director.
But honestly, there isn't the time to even try to find some laurels to rest on as we prepare to welcome our next batch of QBOL residents in a couple days!
Have a safe and happy Canada Day tomorrow, everyone!
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