N.S. adds 15 new specialist residency seats to Dalhousie medical school

[la marzocco]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dalhousie-medical-specialist-seats-added-15-1.4820105

The new spaces include:

• emergency medicine (two spaces)
• core internal medicine (two spaces)
• general internal medicine (two spaces)
• child and adolescent psychiatry (two spaces)
• neurology
• obstetrics and gynecology
• critical care
• geriatric psychiatry
• palliative medicine
• ear, nose and throat
• dermatology

The new spaces will be in place next July. The province is willing spend $1.5 million a year on the new seats.

[indefatigable]

Smart move with good timing.  Quite an increase for them, as it's a small province - about 30% in terms of positions there, but should also help with recruitment, as mentioned in the article.  

[medbruh]

Can this have any effect on enrollment in Maritimes medical schools? 

[indefatigable]

1 hour ago, medbruh said:

Can this have any effect on enrollment in Maritimes medical schools? 

Not automatically - but if they wanted to increase seats, they probably could use this for justification.  They seem to have a strong, healthy ratio of residency positions to medical seats.

[MDwannabe02]

Anyone know if the emerg seats are CCFP or royal college programs?

[Renoir]

38 minutes ago, MDwannabe02 said:

Anyone know if the emerg seats are CCFP or royal college programs?

Good question. I would assume their CAC program is a bit of an oddball and couldn't support another two, but opportunistically would be very handy and effcient if they could retain those trainees after.

[NLengr]

Isn't ENT on the Royal College's list of specialties with a lack of jobs?

Maybe things have changed over the last couple years?

[GrouchoMarx]

40 minutes ago, NLengr said:

Isn't ENT on the Royal College's list of specialties with a lack of jobs?

Maybe things have changed over the last couple years?

I wonder if its more for service coverage

[neuroscience_nerd]

I wish they added the 3 psychiatry fellowship spots to the general psychiatry residency program instead. There is a great need for general psychiatrists and the Dal program is very competitive with a limited number of positions!