Personal Message from our Program Director
Welcome to all new and returning medical students to the Emergency Department (ED) at the Saint John Regional Hospital. I hope you find your time with us to be a rewarding experience, and that we can help you achieve your educational objectives.
The ED team is a multidisciplinary one that consists of physicians, RNs, LPNs, NPs, RTs, paramedics, pharmacy, PSWs, radiology and electrodiagnostic technologists, social work, spiritual care, environmental services (EVS), and administrative support staff. This team is dedicated to making your educational experience both fun and successful. Do not hesitate to ask questions to any member of our team, and take time to learn each members role and skillset within the department during your rotation. There is something to learn from everyone!
Your time in the emergency department will be a busy and exciting time, full of learning opportunities. The emergency department provides a unique opportunity for students to gain experience assessing and treating undifferentiated patients with a wide variety of medical conditions, as well as the chance to learn and practice many procedural skills. The skills and knowledge obtained during this rotation will prove useful to you throughout your career, no matter your choice of specialty.
Dr Matthew Greer
Undergraduate Program Director: Dr. Matthew Greer
Admin Assistant: Melanie Kelly – (506) 649-2635 – [email protected]
The Hospital
The Saint John Regional Hospital is the largest tertiary care hospital (445 beds) in New Brunswick and is the primary health care referral centre for this area and to all New Brunswickers for major trauma and cardiac care.The New Brunswick Trauma Program and the New Brunswick Heart Centre are located within the hospital. It is also the centre of Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick’s distributed medical education program. On-site specialties include cardiac and thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, orthopedics, interventional radiology, intensive care, nephrology, gastroenterolgy, rheumatology, pediatrics, obstetrics, etc (full list here).
Student Elective
Are you considering applying for an elective in Emergency Medicine? See this posting for more information.
For Med1 and Med2 students – to get an EM elective, you have to sign up for the EM elective lottery when either Rebecca Comeau or Jo Anne Burke send out the email to sign up.
For 4th year medical student electives – if you are a DAL student, you apply for electives by emailing Megan Dow ([email protected]). If you are a student outside DAL, you apply for electives through the Elective Portal at https://www.afmcstudentportal.ca/
Visiting Medical Student electives can be applied for here
Curriculum
SJRHEM Learner Competencies
Learning Portfolio
Dalhousie Medical Curriculum
Medical Student Clinical Pearls
Objectives
EM Clerkship Objectives
EM Clerkship PoCUS Objectives
Memorial University of Newfoundland – Medical Students
Information
DMNB Staff
Useful DMNB and Dal Links
This site is where all evaluations of medical students are done. This is also where you will find student feedback on your performance as a tutor in Med 1 and 2
Website of the Dalhousie University Department of Emergency Medicine. Information on the residency programs, academic activities, electives and clerkship
Extensive site. Can get on to BBL(formerly) and mydal sites. Excellent way to access Kellogg Medical library
This site details all the content of the units in pre clerkship and clerkship. It is also where you will find unit objectives and tutor material if you are tutoring a unit in Med 1 or Med 2
Medical Student Files
Other Recommended 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.
Quality EM Blog. Advocate of Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM), and evidence-based medicine/knowledge translation. Case-based review of evidence.
SUMSearch simultaneously searches for original studies, systematic reviews, and practice guidelines from multiple sources
MedEdPORTAL Publications is a free publication service provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Access high quality peer reviewed educational tools including cases and simulations. Initial free registration required
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.
This e-learning website was designed primarily for Physicians working in Emergency Departments who want to provide optimal care to their older patients.
More than 2300 MP3s of lectures recorded at many national and international meetings
The flipped classroom model is based on reversing the traditional approach to teaching. An excellent website for Med Students and EM residents.
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.
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.
EM Basic is made for medical students and emergency medicine interns to review the basics of emergency medicine. Each podcast starts exactly how a patient interaction in the ED starts- with a chief complaint.
The site offers a variety of resources for students of Emergency Medicine. Many are already available already, such as the online self-study modules and digital instruction in Emergency Medicine (DIEM cases).
This site has information about the Plaster Lab Workshop for clinical clerks in the Emergency Medicine Rotation. This site also contains several videos that demonstrate the application of common splints and casts in the emergency department.
If there is an EM topic you have no desire to learn, we will likely cover it. When we do, we’ll present it in the most engaging way possible using high-quality writing and the two great powers of the internet. Canadian EM blog. Includes the CaRMS Guide.
High quality, Free EM blog. Includes discussion articles, educational video animations, paucis verbis (PV) cards and simulation tools
The 3 Min Case EM Presentation
Incredible useful summary of how to present your patient case to the attending