As a designated campus of the Dalhousie University Medical Education Program and through its affiliation with Memorial University of Newfoundland, the Saint John Regional Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine shares academic responsibilities for CCFP (EM) and FRCP (EM) residency training programs.
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).
Our residents have exposure to all aspects of emergency medicine in a friendly and supportive learning environment. They are intimately involved in our nationally recognised research program and our well established ultrasound and simulation programs. Dedicated resident simulation sessions are held on a weekly basis and we are committed to providing the required emergency ultrasound experience for both IFEM competency and CEUS IP.
Our chief resident or postgraduate director can be contacted for further details on our residency program. Residency electives can be applied for on-line here.
The Saint John Regional Hospital Medical Education Program website can be accessed here.
Postgraduate Director: Dr. Robin Clouston
SJRH iFMEM Chief Resident: Dr. Luke Edgar
Postgraduate Program Pages
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Dalhousie Integrated Family Medicine & Emergency Medicine Program
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Saint John Regional Hospital Medical Education
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Resident Clinical Pearls
Resident Objectives & Documents
Residency Orientation Handout
Learning Portfolio
SJRH iFMEM Resident PoCUS Program
Learner ED Attire and Safety Policy
End of Shift Evaluation Form
Clinical Competencies/Encounters Log
ABC’s of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Review Course
The Emergency Medicine Review (EM Review) course is offered by the Saint John Regional Hospital Emergency Department to guide practice eligible physicians in preparation for the CCFP(EM) licensing exam
CCFP(EM) Learning Objectives:
- Administrative/ EMS/ Ethics
- Abdominal and Gastrointestinal
- Airway/ Respirology
- Cardiology
- Endocrine/ Metabolic
- Environmental Emergencies + Burns
- Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine (EBEM)
- Heme/ Onc/ Rheum
- Infectious Disease + Dermatology
- Neurology/Psychiatry
- Obstetrical and Gynecologic
- Optho – ENT – Dental – Allergy
- Orthopedics
- Pediatrics
- Toxicology
- Trauma
- Urology/ Nephrology
Residents 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.
The home of the ECCU Course and ECCU Modules. Book courses, access on-line PoCUS lectures and other resources.
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.
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.
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.
Website of the Dalhousie University Department of Emergency Medicine. Information on the residency programs, academic activities, electives and clerkship
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.
The home of Canadian PoCUS credentialing. Guidance on achieving Independent Practitioner (IP) status.
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