Overview
- Diamond Valley is a town approximately 45 minutes driving distance from Calgary's city centre.
- It is located in the part of the Calgary Health Region which extends from the west of Calgary to Banff and from the south of Calgary to Claresholm.
- Diamond Valley has a population of about 6,000. It offers the opportunity for residents to have a wide variety of clinical experience in a suburban setting.
- Residents who do Family Medicine in Diamond Valley will be on-call at the local Oilfields General Hospital. The hospital has 15 acute care beds and 30 long-term care beds.
- Residents will complete their immersion hospital based rotations in one of the main hospitals in Calgary.
Clinic Structure and Services
- Residents are responsible to be present for hospital rounds on their preceptors' patients between 8 am and 9 am. The office hours vary but generally range form 0830 to 1700, five days a week.
- On-call is done at the Oilfields General Hospital which is two minutes away from the clinic.
- On-call in Emergency at Oilfields Hospital encompasses day, evening and weekend call shifts. Call extends 8 am to 5 pm shift or a 5 pm to 10 pm evening shift. Preceptor constantly available; together you will be responsible for all active, emergency, extended care, homecare, EMS and pre-hospital care issues that arises during the shift.
- Weekend call is one of 3 possible shifts. Saturday either 8 am – 5 pm or 5 pm - 10pm & Sunday 8 am - 5 pm. There is a possibility of doing an overnight shift (where permitted) on Saturday which would be 5pm to 8am+1
Patient Population
- The practice sees approximately 12,000 regular patients of all ages.
- In addition, it serves as an emergency site to care for the numerous people participating in the outdoor activities at the adjacent Kananaskis recreational areas.