Resident Assessment

In addition to regular rotation assessments, residents are expected to track each patient that they see while on their emergency medicine rotations. The purpose of this is to act as a reminder for discussion at the end of shift daily evaluations. Residents go over the cases that they have seen with their most responsible consultant in order to highlight strengths and weaknesses.

Individual residents meet with the program director in a formal way once every six months to review progress. Of course, more frequent, less formal meetings take place regularly should issues arise. Additionally, the program director meets with the residents as a group on a regular basis over breakfast to allow the residents to gang up on the program director and make suggestions for program improvement/change in a group format.

Formal assessments also involve the annual American Board of Emergency Medicine In-Training Examination and our "popular" Annual Mock Orals. The Mock Orals are in December of each year (right before the Christmas break!) and is set up to emulate a real Royal College oral exam experience. Each resident cycles through three rooms with two examiners per room. Following the exam, we get together over beer and munchies to debrief and provide the "ideal" answers to the questions - and take abuse from the residents!

Resident Support

There are a number of ways in which the residents are supported financially. At the beginning of their residency, each resident is provided with the most current issue of Emergency Medicine by Rosen. Each resident receives $500.00 per year to use for academic purposes. This may be for deferral of conference expenses or may be for purchase of textbooks or other learning tools. In addition to this, residents who have scholarly projects accepted for presentation (poster or podium) at national meetings, will receive an additional $1 000.00 per project.

As the toxicology portion of the Toxicology/EMS rotation involves travel to Toronto weekly, residents are provided with a travel allowance to pay for train fare or mileage. The trauma rotation in Baltimore comes with a $1000.00 travel/accommodation reimbursement. The program pays for each PGY3 resident to attend the AIME course (Airways Intervention and Management Education ) at the annual CAEP conference. Finally, the program has an annual competition for a "Resident Scholarship" which is one annual award of $1 000.00 to offset the costs of anyone wanting to pursue an advanced degree.