Continuous Professional Development
This page contains the SJRH Department of Emergency Medicine CPD resources. These resources include CPD policies and forms, archive of Department Rounds and M&M learning points, links to internal and external CPD courses and online educational resources. The objectives of the CPD program are to provide support for physician development and maintenance of clinical and academic competencies, to oversee a program of quality local CME events including Rounds and Journal Club and to provide integration of CPD with the other SJRHEM programs.
Director of CPD: Dr Mackenzie Howatt
Physician Annual Review (PAR)
SJRH DEM provides each physician with an annual review. This process includes a review of annual CME attainment and SJRHEM department participation, and provides support for developing a plan for the following year.
The following documents are required for PAR (see CPD Files):
- Updated CV
- Teaching Dossier
- Self Assessment Form
Department Rounds
Department Rounds are held on a bi-monthly basis from 9am to 10am via Zoom / Emergency Department Conference Room.
Dalhousie DEM Rounds
A schedule of all Dalhousie DEM academic activities can be seen here
The Emergency Medicine Review Course
The Emergency Medicine Review (EMR) course is offered by the Saint John Regional Hospital Emergency Department to guide eligible candidates in preparation for the CCFP (EM) licensing exam.
Journal Club
Journal Club is held on a monthly basis from 7.30pm to 9.30pm and are hosted at the homes of faculty staff.
Presentation Resources
We have priority access to 2 conference rooms situated within the footprint of the Emergency Department. Both rooms are fully equipped with modern video-networking, teleconferencing and smart-board projectors. Click here to access the AV / Teleconferencing Cheat Sheet
i>clicker
We also have the i>clicker Audience Response System (ARS) which enables participants and presenters to interact dynamically through question-and-answer polling in various group settings. Click the above link or here to access instructions for use and other i>clicker resources.
Critical Care Podcasts
Our collection of podcast posts can be found here
CPD Files
Links:
The Trauma Professional's Blog provides information on injury-related topics to trauma professionals.
The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) is a knowledge translation (KT) project. Its goal is to shorten the KT window from about ten years down to one year. To do this it will turn traditional medical education on its head.
Why bother trying to keep your own list of EM/CC blogs and resource links up to date when you have a great bunch of Australians doing it for you.
An Australasian critical care physicians and nurses exploring the changing world of eLearning, emergency medicine, critical care and toxicology through clinical cases, fictionalized anecdotes and medical satire.
More than 2300 MP3s of lectures recorded at many national and international meetings
Each episode of Ercast covers a single issue and tries to tease out all the relevant elements that affect your practice without overstuffing your frontal cortex. It’s for physicians and anyone interested in a bare bones look at emergency care.
Rosen’s Emergency Medicine summarised onto flash cards. Clinical Pearls, Algorithms and Checklists. EM Updates can be used to find information while seeing patients, to browse on a topic, or to act as flash cards for exam prep.
A free news magazine for emergency physicians, Emergency Medicine News provides breaking coverage of advances, trends, and issues within the field. The newspaper features comprehensive special reports, illuminating profiles, and dynamic editorials.
Emergency Medicine Cases (EM Cases) is Canada's most listened to free online medical education podcast, medical blog and website dedicated to providing online emergency medicine education and CME for physicians, residents, students nurses and paramedics.
EM:RAP is a monthly podcast. It’s filled with educational content, lectures, in-studio productions, reviews and perspectives all in a fun filled, tongue-in-cheek format. Subscription required
Indexed collection of EM pearls, guidelines, key research papers. This site functions as a repository for clinically useful information. There is some original content, but most of what you'll find is a compilation of others' work.
Critical Care Reviews is a free, not-for-profit, educational critical care resource. The site offers many resources, including the largest structured collection of accessible critical care review articles on the internet
Test your knowledge by answering multi-choice clinical questions against the clock
High quality, Free EM blog. Includes discussion articles, educational video animations, paucis verbis (PV) cards and simulation tools