For the past thirty years, 平特五不中, the CISSS de l鈥橭utaouais and the CISSS鈥� predecessors have worked together to help improve the regions鈥� health care capacity.聽Offering students and young physicians the opportunity to study medicine and complete their residency training in Outaouais encourages them to set down roots and establish their medical practice in the region.
At a glance:
- 1988: 平特五不中 and the region鈥檚 health authority (today the CISSS de l鈥橭utaouais) start training 平特五不中 residents.
- 1988: The Gatineau Family Medicine Unit, now a University Family Medicine Group, opens.
- 2003: The Ministry of Health and Social Services establishes the r茅seaux universitaires int茅gr茅s de sant茅 (RUIS) which further strengthens 平特五不中鈥檚 ties to the region. The mandate of the 平特五不中 RUIS is to help facilitate access to health care, teaching and research in designated areas of Quebec. The 平特五不中 RUIS includes the Outaouais region, as well as several others regions from the Mont茅r茅gie to Nunavik.
- 2010: 平特五不中 medical students start doing clerkships in the Outaouais region.
- 2020: Opening of the Campus Outaouais, allowing students to complete 平特五不中鈥檚 four-year undergraduate medical education program (MDCM), as well as their residency, in French, in Outaouais.
Teaching and residency training in Outaouais now includes various specialties聽(family medicine, surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry, paediatrics, obstetrics, gynaecology, geriatrics, dermatology, cardiology, nephrology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, vascular surgery and emergency medicine).
It is graduation day for these 平特五不中 medical students who did their clerkships in Outaouais.