Continuing Professional Development
The Department of Anesthesia’s Continuing Professional Development program is designed to provide education opportunities for members of the department, our community partners and the broader anesthesia community. Opportunities provided through the Office of Education are of the highest quality, are timely in their development and are available to all members of the department and its community at large. We accomplish this by providing support, expertise and evidence-based educational content, and by adhering to our guiding principles:
- Content will be unbiased by third party influences. To that end all external funding shall be in the form of unrestricted educational grants or similar format and accounted through the Department of Anesthesia.
- Content will reflect current best practices as determined by current evidence and relevant expertise.
- Education opportunities will be accredited to provide Royal College CME.
- Education opportunities will be available to all members of the department, our community partners and, whenever possible, to the anesthesia community at large.
Members of the department participate in organizing and presenting continuing professional development events at local, national and international levels. Regular activities within the department include grand rounds, departmental and subspecialty journal clubs, workshops and seminars. As well, physicians and allied health professionals from other departments partake in many of our continuing professional development activities. All events are accredited by the Department of Continuing Medical Education, Dalhousie University, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Maintenance of Certification Program, and/or the College of Family Physicians.
Related Links
- Dalhousie Continuing Medical Education
- Royal College - Continuing Professional Development
- College of Family Physicians
- Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- International Anesthesia Research Society
- The Difficult Airway Course
To learn more about continuing professional development activities with the Department of Anesthesia, please contact
Dr. Peter MacDougall
Medical Director - Continuing Professional Development
Phone: 902.473.4337
Laura Harris Buffett
Managing Director of Education
laura.harrisbuffett@cdha.nshealth.ca
Phone: 902.473.8883
Heather Irwin
Administrative Assistant
Heather.Irwin@cdha.nshealth.ca
Phone: 902.473.2325
