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Welcome Medical Students October 3, 2011
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WelcomeMedical Students
October 3, 2011
Why Are We Here?
• Promote Manitoba opportunities for medical students and future doctors
• Provide an overview of the health care system in which you will be working once you are licensed.
• Promote assistance (financial & non-financial) that is available to you if you are interested.
Background
Manitoba’s Office of Rural and Northern Health (ORNH) became fully operational in early 2003.It was established as a component of the Manitoba Rural Physician Action Plan, a commitment by Manitoba Health with the following goal in mind:
Increase the number of graduating physicians and Increase the number of graduating physicians and other health care professionals who choose rural other health care professionals who choose rural
and northern Manitoba as a place to live and and northern Manitoba as a place to live and practise their professions.practise their professions.
• RHA Presentations• Return of Service Template• Manitoba Medical Students Rural
Interest Group (MMSRIG)• Family Medicine Residents’
Retreat & Job Fairs• Path-Finding Service
ORNH Initiatives
OVERVIEW
Health Care System in Manitoba
Who is involved in the delivery of Health Care?
1. Federal Government Funding, Canada Health Act
2. Provincial Government Funding, standards, administration
3. Regional Health Authorities Created in 1995 & reorganized in 2012, service delivery, administration, granting of privileges to physicians, employing health care workers (support staff, allied health, nursing and in some cases physicians).
Who is involved in the delivery of Health Care?
4. Communities/ health foundations
Fundraising for equipment and recruitment
5. Health care professionals Service delivery and administration
• Physicians deliver medical services directly to patients.
• Their relationship with the medical system is often very different from that of other health professionals in that the majority of physicians operate as independent business people or contractors.
What about physicians? What is their role?
Remuneration
Fee For ServicePhysician operates as an independent business person and bills Manitoba Health for each patient they see based on the provincially negotiated fee schedule.
Independent ContractPhysician receives a designated contract amount from the RHA for a negotiated amount of work.
SalaryPhysician is an employee of the RHA and provides services within the context of an employment contract.
What organizations provide support to physicians?
http://www.cpsm.mb.ca/
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Manitoba
The principal functions of the College are:
Qualifications & Licensure defines those requirements necessary for the safe practice of medicine and the capabilities required for the performance of various clinical procedures.
Evaluation of Competence and Maintenance of Standards through the educational process, standards can be established against which performance is measured and objectives of good patient care met.
Rules of Conductestablishment of rules and minimum standards enable the profession to self-govern and take action where there is a failure to comply with guidelines of ethical or clinical practice.
Doctors Manitoba (formerly, Manitoba Medical
Association)
Doctors Manitoba is a professional association of physicians representing physicians, medical students and residents.
It advocates for the interests of Manitoba physicians and trainees. Varied economic, social and political issues important to practicing physicians of Manitoba are represented and promoted.
Services offered:
• Health Policy Advocacy• Negotiation Services• Health Promotion• Personal Insurance Services• Liability Insurance (CMPA)
and CME Rebate Programs• Maternity/Parental
Benefits Program• Physician Retention Program• Physicians at Risk Program• Communication
www.docsmb.org
www.rham.mb.ca
Regional Health Authorities
• Granting privileges• Recruitment an retention• Maintenance of facilities• Equipment purchase• Employing support staff
http://www.parim.org
Professional Association of Residents & Interns of ManitobaProfessional Association of Residents & Interns of Manitoba
The Professional Association of Residents and Interns of Manitoba endeavours to:
• REPRESENT the concerns of all residents in Manitoba • PROTECT the physical and mental well being of our
members• PROVIDE an atmosphere conducive to the study of
medicine• PORTRAY our interests at a national level through CAIR• LIAISE with other health care organizations within
Manitoba• PROMOTE excellence in patient care.
http://www.gov.mb.ca/health/
Manitoba Health
Insured Benefits– How a claim is processed– Queries– Rejection– Role of the Medical Review Committee
Labour Relations (Negotiation)PlanningOther Departments (RSS)Reporting StructureManitoba Medical Student/Resident Financial Assistance Program (MSRFAP)
– Support in Med 1,2,3 or 4 and residency (1 year for FM or 2 years for other specialties)
– Total of up to $68,000 for FM and $88,000 for other specialties
What are the future practice opportunities?
• Many opportunities in rural/northern regions– Family practice– Family practice with an additional 3
months to 1 year of training (anesthesia, obstetrics, ER, palliative care)
– General specialties (internal medicine, general surgery, radiology, ob/gyn, psychiatry, pediatrics,…..)
Why should I practice in Manitoba?
• Remuneration levels are competitive across the country
• Manitoba has a very competitive cost of living
• Provincial government tuition tax incentive
• Quality of life• Opportunity
ORNH Contact InformationWayne Heide, ORNH Administrative Director
Unit D – 101 1st Avenue NWDauphin, MB R7N 1G8Phone: 204-622-6210 Fax: 204-622-6211Toll Free: 1-866-244-6764 (ORNH)Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Dr. Don Klassen, ORNH Medical Director Associate Dean of Distributed Medical Education, University of Manitoba
Boundary Trails Health Centre385 Main StreetWinkler, MB R6W 1J2Phone: 204-331-4703 Fax: 204-325-4594Email: [email protected]
Dr. Holly Hamilton, ORNH Medical Associate
• Box 190; 44 Rogers St. Notre Dame de Lourdes, MB ROB 1M0Phone: 204-248-2252 (clinic)Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ornh.mb.ca
