Emergency Medicine attains departmental status at University of Ottawa

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CJEM 2003;5(2):138

In December 2002, the Senate of the University of Ottawa approved the creation of a new Department of Emergency Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine. The University of Ottawa joins Queen's University (1996) and Dalhousie University (1999) to become just the third Canadian university to create a full academic Department of Emergency Medicine.

Largely through the efforts of Dr. Ian Stiell, the University of Ottawa has an international reputation of excellence in emergency medicine research. The University of Ottawa faculty and research teams have given birth to and nurtured the Ottawa Ankle Rules, the Ottawa Knee Rules, the Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) studies, the Canadian C-Spine Rule and the Canadian CT Head Rule, among many others.

In postgraduate emergency medicine education, the University of Ottawa is home to one of the oldest and most sought after CCFP (EM) programs in the country and to Canada's first combined emergency medicine FRCPC-MSc epidemiology fellowship training program. The faculty at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario has been a national resource for postgraduate pediatric emergency medicine training for over a decade.

Congratulations to all of my colleagues at the University of Ottawa and to Ian Stiell, who has been appointed the Interim Chair for the new Department.

Garth Dickinson, MD
Senior Associate Editor, CJEM