CCMEd Critical Care Medicine Education

Welcome to your ICU rotation!

This will be an exciting and challenging time! As well as the rush of dealing with emergency admissions and developing new practical and procedural skills, you will have to develop your skills in helping patients and families come to terms with what is often a sudden and devastating illness, with all the emotion and stress that the situation carries with it.

You will find it tough and tiring, and you will deal with life and death issues every day. However, you will also find that you are working as part of a team, with experienced colleagues, and with the support that you need to move up the learning curve and make your clinical performance even better.

We hope that you will rise to this challenge, and we have developed this site to help you quickly access the most relevant learning resources to help you. We want you to see this site as a “go to” resource for your rotation. We will be pulling together all of the key talks from our rotation teaching sessions, other critical care presentations, related articles, procedure demonstration videos and audio material, as well as keeping you up to date on what is in the journals and what is happening in the ICU’s in Research and QA/QI activity.

We are always on the lookout for useful content, so if you come across a site you want us to link to, or you have a resource you want to see on the site, please email us the details and we’ll get on it. You can reach us at webmaster@ccmed.org. Please check in often and take time to browse around so that you are familar with the layout. Although the site is aimed at Dalhousie University ICU Residents, everyone with an interest in critical care medicine is welcome within the public areas of the site. You can keep up with ICU events using our calendar, which you'll find in the "What's New?" menu at the top of the screen. Alternatively, you can click on the button below to add our events to your Google calendar...

Dr. Andrew Ferguson, Division of Critical Care Medicine