The Department of Family Medicine welcomes a new GFT, Dr. Judy Baird
Dr. Baird comes to McMaster from Northern Ontario where she practiced family medicine for 11 years and was an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM).
In her role as Assistant Professor, Dr Baird was involved in curriculum development and served as a member of the AFMC national clinical skills working group.
Dr. Baird has considerable teaching experience and is involved in research in the areas of clinical reasoning skill development and assessment, the use of virtual tools to aid in education and assessment, and the development of community leadership skills through service learning. In addition to her clinical and teaching commitments, Dr. Baird is part way through completion of a Master’s degree in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Baird will be located at our Stonechurch Family Health Centre (Team A) effective January 1, 2011 and can be reached by calling Stonechurch at 905.575.1300.
We are delighted that Dr. Baird has decided to join our Department!