About NorFam
MUN Family Medicine Residency: Goose Bay stream. Our program is focused on rural and remote medicine, indigenous health, and the broad scope of primary care.
“Where else can you be where you start the day delivering a baby, you work in clinic and see a few patients, and then finish the day on a helicopter trip to an isolated community to pick up a critically ill patient?”
Mike Curran, NorFam alumnus and teacher
“It’s a privilege to be training residents who can work anywhere in Canada — residents who are able to work in the most difficult and trying conditions in the Canadian North. [NorFam] exposes residents to a variety of clinical situations where they have to practice to the upper limit of their ability; it challenges them while at the same time providing sufficient supervision and back-up.”
Yordan Karaivanov, NorFam teacher
“NorFam is a stronghold of rural generalism… this is a place where you can learn to be a true generalist; where nothing is outside the realm of possibility.”
Kathryn Versteeg, NorFam alumnus and teacher
“NorFam is a combination of acuity and continuity — you see someone when they’re sick, you admit them to hospital under yourself, and then — the most rewarding part — you get to follow them up in your clinic. You follow them through that whole process, build that relationship, get to know their family, and get to see them be well again.”
Nora Purcell, NorFam alumnus
“At my MUN interview I met Kathryn Versteeg, and I asked her a question my mom had told me to ask: “What do all of the residents that choose to come to Goose Bay have in common?” — And she looked dramatically off into the distance, and then said “Courage.” And at the time I was like ‘Ok, cool answer’ and then as I thought about it later, I realized that I want to do that — I want to be challenged, I want to have to think creatively, in a difficult but really stimulating environment, and I want to be a clinician and person with courage.”
Caroline Patterson, NorFam alumnus
A little more about us:
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