Benefits of having a Family Doctor
$50 versus $6350
What is the average cost of a visit to see a Family Doctor versus the average cost of hositalization in the Ontario health care system?
850,000 people (larger than the size of Winnipeg or Vancouver!)
What is the size of the community we serve at Humber River Health?
Visit us on Level 1, along “Main Street”.
Where is Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit located?
When caught early, 9 out of 10 people can be cured of this type of cancer. The Ontario Government allows you to perform this test at home and mail it in.
What is colon cancer testing via the Fecal Immunochemistry Test, "FIT"?
Licensed doctors who have finished medical school, but are doing 2 years of extra training to become a family doctor.
What is a resident doctor?
Longer life expectancy, fewer preventable hospitalizations and premature deaths, improved health status and quality of life, better health after age 40, improved maternal and child health outcomes.
What is having a Family Doctor?
Described as a "primary care desert", this community has the lowest number of primary care physicians compared to a very high primary care need in all the Toronto Central LHIN.
What is North West Toronto (the Humber River Health Community)? (Toronto Community Health Profiles Partnership, 2016)
Affiliated with the University of Toronto’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, it has been established to help educate future family doctors and to increase access to primary care for members of the HRH community who do not have a family doctor.
What is Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit?
Start at age 40 years old and repeat every three years.
When should adults start to screen for diabetes, and how often?
18 (or more), per year, 12 (or more), per year.
How many University of Toronto resident doctors (18 or more), and medical students (12 or more), will the Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit train per year?
Canadians are seven times more likely to want care from their own, rather than one they don't know.
What is having your own Family Doctor?
Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Portuguese, Cantonese, Tamil, Urdu, Somali, and Punjabi
What are the top 10 non-English and non-French languages in the community we serve?
Nurse, dietician, social worker, pharmacist.
What interprofessional health care providers are available to a patient, at no cost, via the Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit?
Start at age 25, and stop at age 70 if you have had three or more normal tests in the previous 10 years.
When should women start to screen for cervical cancer (via the pap test), and when do they stop?
Research shows that Family Medicine residents are 2/3 more likely to open up a practice in a community when they graduate, due to this one key factor.
What is the community they train in ("If you build it they will come...and stay: A community-based Family Medicine Program", Whitaker et al, 2016.
Allows family physicians to care for more patients. Can reduce emergency department use.
What is adopting team-based primary care?
The area with the lowest screening rates for mammograms (58.3%), pap smears (53%), and colonoscopies (26.5%) in the entire Toronto Central LHIN.
What is North West Toronto (the Humber River Health community)?
10,000 and 44,000 ... that's a significant dent!
The projected number of unattached patients (patients without a Family Doctor) the Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit will be able to roster by maturity, compared to the number of unattached patients in the Humber River Health community.
One of the few screening tests recommended for people under the age of 30 by the Canadian Task Force for Primary Care and the American Centre for Disease Control (to be performed opportunistically)?
What is a chlamydia test?
Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Women's Health, Geriatrics, Long Term Care (at Humber Meadows!), Palliative Care, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Rural Family Medicine, Social Accountability.
What rotations are the HRH Family Medicine Residents going to complete during their two year residency program?
In Toronto, within the next 1 year one in 25 plan to do this, and in the next 2-5 years one in 10 plan to do this.
What are the number of Family Doctors who plan to close their practice in the next year and next 2-5 years?
The highest rates of equity owed populations, persons in low income, seniors living alone, unmet mental health care needs, and COVID-19 ... compared to the rest of the Toronto Central LHIN.
How does North West Toronto (Humber River Health Community) compare to the rest of Toronto on the social determinants of health?
Open 5 - 8pm Monday to Friday, Saturday 9am - 3pm, Sunday 9am - 12pm, your primary care provider will be updated if you visit us and we can access your medical records, ensuring continuity in your care.
What are the After Hours Clinics offered by the Humber River Family Health Organization, to which the Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit belongs?
Current and former smokers ages 55 to 74 may be referred to this program if they have smoked cigarettes daily for at least 20 years (not necessarily 20 years in a row, which means there could be times when they did not smoke).
What is low dose CT scan screening for lung cancer?
Comprehensive Care, Continuity of Care, Centered in Family Medicine (200 patients, three half days a week, over two years)
What is the focus of the Family Medicine Resident's curriculum, how many patients will they follow, and for how long?