Important information about
The Circumcision Clinic

• The Circumcision Clinic™ (The Clinic) coordinates high volume circumcision clinics at several locations across Ontario.

• We bring expert, high volume, circumcision doctors to areas where there is underservices demand. The more demand, the more frequently we run our clinics.

• We lease or rent space within clean, well run medical clinics in these local geographies, where we set up our own doctors, administrative, nursing and support staff for the day.

• As an example, ‘The Circumcision Clinic’ rents space within ‘BloorKids Pediatric Clinic’ (a wonderful, clean, bright and well run general and specialist pediatric clinic!). When you set off for your appointment you can look for ‘BloorKids’ on your GPS. When you enter, you will see a sign and kiosk with ‘The Circumcision Clinic’ where ‘The Circumcision Clinic’ admin will check you in and guide you on the start of your journey. You will not interface with any personnel from ‘BloorKids’ despite this being the host for the appointment. (Though you are welcome and invited to speak to the ‘BloorKids’ reception about finding a pediatrician or specialist for your child while you are there.)

• If you require any post-procedure follow-up, our team can help you to book your appointment virtually, or at any of our locations based on urgency and availability. (ie. just because you visited the ‘BloorKids’ location for the original appointment, doesn’t mean you need to return to that location for follow-up care necessarily – though you can if you choose.)

• The Clinic is founded on the idea that doctors and teams that do a high volume of procedures have better outcomes than practitioners that practice circumcision care on an add-hoc or infrequent basis.

• The doctors and nurses work on a shared care model, so when you sign up for an appointment with The Circumcision Clinic™ you agree to the care of any of our wonderful doctors and nurses.

• The Circumcision Clinic leadership will only support doctors who have a proven track record of excellent surgical outcomes AND excellent bedside manner and family focused approach.

• The Clinic doctors and nurses have standardized and protocolized all the aspects of care where we have been able – ensuring a consistent experience across practitioners and locations.

• Elements of care that are consistent and protocolized amongst all doctors and locations were developed by consensus and approved by all physicians providing care. These include:

  • Consent forms and information for patients

  • Dose and route of local anesthetic nerve block

  • Aftercare instructions

• The doctor providing the circumcision takes on the full responsibility for the care they provide, so there might be differences between doctors with regards to inclusion criteria (safe age they will provide circumcision), technical approach to the procedure (tools and equipment and time to complete the surgery), or inclusion / exclusion of patients with minor anatomical variations (minor webbing or rotation etc.)

  • Note: if there is an anatomical variation that makes a clinic-based circumcision unsafe, The Circumcision Clinic™ will coordinate a referral with a specialist that can help you manage is a safer manner.

• If you arrive for a circumcision appointment and after discussion with the team either you or your doctor decide it’s not best to move ahead with the procedure, there will be no charge for the visit. (We do not want there to be any financial pressure of families to move ahead with the procedure. )