DFCM Annual Report 2017-2018
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EDUCATION: ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIP AND GRADUATE STUDIES<br />
Dr. Maryam Al-Rashid<br />
Reflects on her Experience<br />
as a Family Medicine Fellow<br />
Below Dr. Maryam Al-Rashid writes of her experience completing<br />
both the Medical Education Fellowship and Academic Fellowship<br />
Programs at the Department of Family and Community Medicine.<br />
I am Maryam Al-Rashid and I am a family physician from<br />
Qatar. I received my Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBSS)<br />
in 2005 from the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, and<br />
completed a four-year residency program in Family Medicine<br />
in Qatar in 2014.<br />
Since joining the medical school and all through my medical<br />
career, I have been purely a clinical physician dealing with<br />
patients and had no administrative role. Being always keen<br />
to develop my career, I decided to combine my clinical and<br />
academic tracks and enrolled in the Medical Education<br />
Fellowship and Academic Fellowship Programs at the<br />
Department of Family and Community Medicine (<strong>DFCM</strong>) at the<br />
University of Toronto. My trajectory with the two fellowships<br />
began in September 2016, and I graduated on June 30, <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
During these two years, I completed a total of 20 courses.<br />
The courses met my needs and aligned with my goals, as they<br />
leveraged my knowledge and skills and gave me the required<br />
foundations to start my academic career on a solid base.<br />
I created posters, delivered workshops and presentations,<br />
produced a quality improvement project, learned about<br />
survey design and writing grant proposals, among many<br />
other useful projects.<br />
I highly recommend family<br />
physicians from any part of<br />
the world take the initiative<br />
to develop their career and<br />
the Department of Family<br />
and Community Medicine at<br />
University of Toronto is the<br />
right place to do so. Students<br />
will find themselves in a rich<br />
academic environment with<br />
advanced evidence-based<br />
education, as well as highly<br />
knowledgeable and supportive<br />
instructors who provide<br />
knowledge and skills with care,<br />
compassion and respect.<br />
Because of my fellowship in Canada, I am well prepared to<br />
become an educator, a scholar, a leader, and an administrator<br />
and not merely a clinical teacher. I highly recommend family<br />
physicians from any part of the world take the initiative<br />
to develop their career and the Department of Family and<br />
Community Medicine at University of Toronto is the right<br />
place to do so. Students will find themselves in a rich academic<br />
environment with advanced evidence-based education, as<br />
well as highly knowledgeable and supportive instructors<br />
who provide knowledge and skills with care, compassion and<br />
respect. In addition, the administrative staff at the <strong>DFCM</strong> are<br />
welcoming and helpful.<br />
Department of Family & Community Medicine | <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2017</strong>–<strong>2018</strong> 29
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