The Regina Program is based in the Regina General Hospital. It functions as an independent community practice within the hospital. It is affiliated with the Four Directions Community Health Centre, which is an inner-city primary health clinic focusing on the care of urban underserved patients. All of the physicians have broad-based practices which include inpatient care and half of the faculty provide intrapartum obstetrical care as well.

There are only a small number of medical students and Royal College residents training in the city so the physicians involved in the teaching program come to know the residents quite well. The low learner numbers also allow for the flexibility to adapt the program to individual learner needs.

The program has recently moved toward a more integrated curriculum by combining community, women's health, obstetrics and family medicine experiences in an extended family medicine block to provide residents with more opportunities for continuity within family medicine. There is considerable elective time in the program which allows residents to organize their program to meet their career goals.

The University of Saskatchewan

The College of Medicine utilizes a distributed model of education and has approximately 270 university based faculty and over 800 community faculty distributed throughout all 13 Saskatchewan Health Regions. The College is expanding and currently has approximately 250 undergraduate students and 300 postgraduate students.

The City of Regina

One minute you are driving past fields that extend off to the horizon and then up pops Regina. The city has been referred to an oasis on the prairies, with it's over 350,000 hand-planted trees.

It is a growing community of friendly, welcoming people. Residents of the city like to say that it has all the amenities of a larger centre, just only one of them. It has a wide range of arts and cultural activities as well as many festivals throughout the year. The Regina Symphony is Canada's longest continuously performing symphony orchestra. There are opportunities to play or watch a variety of sports, not to mention being home to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Curriculum

Contact Us
Program Director: Dr. Kathy Lawrence
Site Director: Dr. Cheryl Zagozeski
Program Administrator: Debbie Stobbs
Email: debbie.stobbs@usask.ca
Phone: (306) 766-4044

If you are a patient looking for a family physician, please click on the following link to the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region and then click on "Doctors Accepting New Patients."  Or, click here.