Our Service Missions
Medical Education
The future health of Ontario’s population requires the education of
highly skilled physicians. As the Alternative Funding Plan for academic
medicine at Queen’s University, one core business is to educate highly
skilled future physicians for Ontario. Medical education includes both
undergraduate medical education leading to an MD degree and
postgraduate medical education leading to qualified specialist physicians.
In producing future physicians for Ontario SEAMO strives to ensure:
- educational programs of the highest quality
- effective teaching programs and methods
- diverse and appropriate learning opportunities, and
- that Queen’s University School of Medicine maintains its reputation as an Academic Centre of Excellence.
Continued
provision of high quality care by Ontario’s physicians requires a
commitment to continuous skills upgrading and exposure to emerging
knowledge and technologies. Queen’s University
Faculty of Health Sciences
actively engages physicians from across Southeastern Ontario and beyond
in high quality programs of continuing medical education.
In addition to programs in continuing medical education, the Centre
offers programs in faculty development. The Faculty Development Program
aids faculty in attaining the skills relevant to their roles as
educators, researchers, administrators and scholars.
Health Related Research
Improving the health of the population now and in the future depends on
our ability to generate new knowledge. Our active programs in health
related research enable our academic physicians to contribute
significantly to this knowledge base. Further, in order to recruit and
to retain high quality physicians we must make available to them
opportunities to pursue their research interests.
The
Faculty of Health Sciences has developed a research strategy with
emphasis on established strengths in cancer, neurosciences,
cardiac-circulatory-respiratory sciences, gastrointestinal diseases,
human mobility, protein function discovery. The strategy also
recognizes and supports the emerging foci in health services/policy
research, environment and human health, genetics and reproductive
sciences and primary care.
Patient Care
Our programs and services in patient care provide appropriate and
needed services to respond to the needs of the populations we serve. In
particular, our academic physicians provide tertiary care to the people
of Southeastern Ontario, secondary care to residents of Kingston and
its surroundings, and primary care as required by our educational
programs. (sub)specialized care within the Health Sciences Centre.
As
part of the integrated Southeastern Ontario Health Sciences Centre,
SEAMO funded physicians provide the overwhelming majority of
(sub)specialized care within the Health Sciences Centre.
