Nineteen Family Medicine Graduates trained in N.B. celebrated in Moncton

Moncton, N.B. - June 8, 2022 – Nineteen graduates from the New Brunswick Francophone Family Medicine Training Program who had completed their postdoctoral degree in family medicine were celebrated during an event held at the auditorium of the Jeanne-de-Valois building at Université de Moncton, on Friday, June 3, 2022.

Trained in New Brunswick in collaboration with the Université de Sherbrooke, these graduates will practise as family doctors, and most of them will establish their practices in the province or in Atlantic Canada.

The graduates pursued their clinical training in New Brunswick at the Greater Moncton Family Medicine Unit, in collaboration with Vitalité Health Network health facilities. The Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre, Chaleur Regional Hospital, Campbellton Regional Hospital, Edmundston Regional Hospital, Enfant-Jésus RHSJ† Hospital, Tracadie Hospital, Lamèque Hospital and Community Health Centre as well and their affiliated centres, the Saint-Jacques Medical Clinic and Nepisiguit Medical Clinic welcomed the graduates during their clinical practicums as part of their training.

“We are truly honoured to have played an active role in the training of these great new medical graduates. I would like to congratulate each one of them and to wish them a great and long professional career in health care,” said Dr. France Desrosiers, President and CEO of Vitalité Health Network.

According to Dr. Lise Babin, Director of the New Brunswick Francophone Family Medicine Training Program, “The ultimate goal of having medical training in New Brunswick is to promote a better understanding of the community’s health needs, while increasing the recruitment and retention of doctors. I am confident that the 2022 cohort of graduating students will allow us to reach this goal and that it will be able to understand and, most of all, meet the needs of communities.”

The New Brunswick Francophone Family Medicine Training Program is the main source of francophone doctors in Atlantic Canada.

From left to right:

1^st row: Dr. Simon D’Astous, Dr. Brandon Feeney, Dr. Patrick Babineau, Dr. Marie-Andrée St-Pierre, Dr. Catherine David, Dr. Annick Murphy, Dr. Pamela Desrosiers and Dr. Geneviève Cormier.

2^nd row (in the back): Dr. Justin Boissonnault, Dr. Jenny-Lee Albert, Dr. Kassandra Sonier, Dr. Danika Landry, Dr. Sophie Lequang, Dr. Patrick Pelletier, Dr. Geneviève Aubé and, the lieutenant, Dr. Andrew Kilpatrick.

Absent from the picture: Dr. Mustapha Abboud, Dr. Marie-France Finn and Dr. Tara Murphy.