Resumen
Objective: We sought to conduct a major objective of the CAEP Academic Section, an environmental scan of the academic emergency medicine programs across the 17 Canadian medical schools. Methods: We developed an 84-question questionnaire, which was distributed to academic heads. The responses were validated by phone by the lead author to ensure that the questions were answered completely and consistently. Details of pediatric emergency medicine units were excluded from the scan. Results: At eight of 17 universities, emergency medicine has full departmental status and at two it has no official academic status. Canadian academic emergency medicine is practiced at 46 major teaching hospitals and 13 specialized pediatric hospitals. Another 69 Canadian hospital EDs regularly take clinical clerks and emergency medicine residents. There are 31 full professors of emergency medicine in Canada. Teaching programs are strong with clerkships offered at 16/17 universities, CCFP(EM) programs at 17/17, and RCPSC residency programs at 14/17. Fourteen sites have at least one physician with a Master’s degree in education. There are 55 clinical researchers with salary support at 13 universities. Sixteen sites have published peer-reviewed papers in the past five years, ranging from four to 235 per site. Annual budgets range from $200,000 to $5,900,000. Conclusion: This comprehensive review of academic activities in emergency medicine across Canada identifies areas of strengths as well as opportunities for improvement. CAEP and the Academic Section hope we can ultimately improve ED patient care by sharing best academic practices and becoming better teachers, educators, and researchers.
Idioma original | English |
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Páginas (desde-hasta) | 39-46 |
Número de páginas | 8 |
Publicación | Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine |
Volumen | 19 |
N.º | 1 |
DOI | |
Estado | Published - ene. 1 2017 |
Publicado de forma externa | Sí |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:We particularly thank three staff members from Ottawa who worked tirelessly to obtain responses from each medical school (Angela Marcantonio, Ann Kasaboski, Rachel Baril) and Kelly Wyatt from CAEP for arranging telephone interviews. In addition, we are very grateful for the cooperation of emergency medicine leaders from each university: British Columbia (Jim Christenson), Alberta (Brian Holroyd, Brian Rowe), Calgary (Eddy Lang, Grant Innes), Saskatchewan (James Stempian, Rob Woods), Manitoba (Alecs Chochinov), Northern Ontario (Gary Bota, Lee Toner), Western (Gary Joubert, Shelley McLeod), McMaster (Margaret Ackerman), Toronto (Anil Chopra, Eric Letovsky, Laurie Morrison), Queens (Gord Jones), Ottawa (Ian Stiell), McGill (Jean-Marc Troquet, Marc Afilalo), Montreal (Pierre Désaulniers, Jean Pelletier), Laval (Renée Turgeon), Sherbrooke (Marie Giroux), Dalhousie (David Petrie), and Memorial (Tia Renouf).
Publisher Copyright:
© Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Emergency Medicine