Medical program now has a name
Published Friday September 4th, 2009
Health Work at city sites making way for Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick
SANDRA DAVIS
Telegraph-Journal
SAINT JOHN - Work is underway fast and furious at both the Saint John Regional Hospital and Saint John College to accommodate Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, which is what the province's new medical education program is called.
"This new name reflects Dalhousie's strategic direction as a Maritime-wide medical school, with the New Brunswick program as a key component," said John Steeves, associate dean, Dalhousie Medical Education New Brunswick.
"It also signals the depth of the program as we develop our research component."
The program was officially named this week.
Meanwhile, King Construction is on-site at the Regional Hospital, working on a $203,000 contract and making way for the relocation of lab records so anatomy and histology teaching labs can be built, says Chrystiane Mallaley of the provincial Department of Supply and Services.
Tenders to construct the two labs close Sept. 25, she said.
The second construction project related to the medical program is building clinical teaching space, for which tenders will close next month, she said.
The two projects represent a fraction of $50 million worth of construction at the Regional Hospital, which includes an expansion of the emergency room and building a bunker to house linear accelerators - machines used to treat cancer patients with external beam radiation.
Construction is also starting at the Saint John College building of UNBSJ, which will include renovations to accommodate administrative offices, video-conferencing classrooms, tutorial rooms and research labs. A second phase will see an addition made to the college building, which will house the Learning Resource Centre and research lab space, and will be complete by May 2011.
Renovations to the maintenance shop, which is adjacent to the Saint John College building, will create a temporary Learning Resource Centre for the first year of the program, to be ready for use by next spring. The first class students at DMNB will begin their journey toward becoming physicians next September.
In a message on DMNB's website, Steeves notes that, in years one and two of the program, all lectures will be delivered from Halifax by video conferencing to New Brunswick classrooms using state-of-the-art, full motion, high-definition video conferencing technology.
"This system for program delivery has a proven track record in medical education," he says.
"Within the next few years, New Brunswick faculty will also provide lectures from any one of our four sites to an entire class."
Over the next two years, additional teaching facilities will be constructed in Moncton, Fredericton, Miramichi and the Saint John Regional Hospital, Steeves notes and, over the next four years, four basic-science researchers will be hired.
"DMNB is not tied to any particular city - its scope is New Brunswick," he said. "Our students will complete their clerkship years based in regional hospitals in Saint John, Fredericton, Moncton and the Miramichi.
"With the establishment of the DMNB campus, our students will benefit from the same quality of medical education as the learners located on the Halifax campus."
DMNB is a partnership with the New Brunswick government, the University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine.
The program will admit 30 students from New Brunswick annually, who will attend classes in Saint John for the first two years and will then fan out across the province to complete their clerkships in Moncton, Woodstock, Fredericton and Miramichi, as well as in Saint John.
Applications are now being accepted through the Dalhousie Medical School admissions office. General information is available at the admissions and student affairs website at:
http://admissions.medicine.dal.ca
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