Duration: 1 year
Start Date: July
Salary: per current PGY6 level contract
Location: QEII Health Sciences Centre - Primarily the Halifax Infirmary and Victoria General Hospital Sites
Projected Clinical Time Requirement: 100 days working independently in operating room (average 2 days/week) no call
Academic Protected Time: 3 days/week dedicated to QI fellowship activities, 3 days conference leave, vacation - 4 weeks (Clinical/academic time are subject to confirmation at time of offer).
Minimum Educational Requirements: MD or equivalent and eligibility for independent clinical anesthesia practice in Nova Scotia. See our Dalhousie University Anesthesia Fellowship website for eligibility details:
Introduction: The Dalhousie Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine offer a 1-year fellowship program in quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS). This fellowship will involve both independent clinical experience in the operating room and protected academic time. During the academic time fellows will complete mandatory QI/PS training courses, prepare educational QI/PS sessions for the residents, facilitate one departmental Morbidity and Mortality rounds, and participate in ad hoc hospital QI review and perioperative QI committees. Fellows will also be responsible for presenting a QI/PS topic at the Departmental Grand rounds and organizing a QI/PS related journal club for the department. During the 12-month period the fellow must complete 2 QI/PS projects, present their QI research data at the Anesthesia department research day, and submit a manuscript for publication in an acceptable medical journal.
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Fellowship Director: Dr. A. Milne, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Other Collaborating QI Staff: Drs. G. Dobson, D. MacDonald, and V. Sweet
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