Saint John / Community facilities

This is an exciting program designed to better prepare family physicians to provide comprehensive patient care while fulfilling valuable leadership roles. This three-year program addresses the issues of family physicians in smaller communities, who frequently staff emergency rooms, and are therefore required to be highly trained and equipped to deal with patient care situations that their colleagues in larger centres would not encounter.

This three-year integrated CCFP/CCFP(EM) program covers the core competencies currently addressed with the two-year family medicine and the one-year emergency medicine programs 

• Largest tertiary care hospital in New Brunswick; primary health care referral centre for all New Brunswick for major trauma and cardiac care

• Access to two emergency communities – locally in Saint John and in rural locations 

• Primary clinical settings are in Saint John. Whether at our uptown (central) Community Health Centre or in a community family practice, each resident gains exposure to comprehensive family medicine. In a busy, stimulating, environment, residents collaborate with key health care providers to optimize patient care—including nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, dieticians, and occupational therapists. 

• Rural clinical sites have been established in Upper River Valley and Miracmichi where family physicians provide comprehensive family medicine care and take leadership roles in the delivery of emergency care in rural hospitals

• The Saint John Regional Hospital houses the Medical Education administration offices and offers a library/study area, computer work area, large resident lounge, numerous teaching rooms, simulation lab and fitness centre on site