Clinical Care & Distributed Learning
Facts About Distributed Learning

Did you know that Dalhousie Medical School trains students and residents in 111 training sites located throughout the Maritimes?  These training sites include four teaching hospitals in Nova Scotia, three in New Brunswick and two in Prince Edward Island. Dalhousie does more medical student teaching in our clerkship outside the major metro centre (metro Halifax) than any other medical school in Canada. Here are some additional facts on distributed learning at "Maritime Canada's Medical School" :

• Dalhousie Medical Students complete their 3 rd and 4 th years of medical school training at sites around the Maritimes, two-thirds do at least one rotation in New Brunswick. (Only four per cent of third-year students do their entire clinical rotations in Halifax.)
  
• Dalhousie's Family Medicine Residency Program is based in Halifax, Cape Breton, Moncton/Northumberland, Saint John, and Fredericton.  Fifty percent of our residency rotations take place in New Brunswick. (Over 80% of the core residency rotations in Family Medicine are outside Halifax.)
  
• Dalhousie currently has more than 230 community- based family medicine faculty in 65 Maritime communities. In Nova Scotia alone, 134 community- based family doctors teach our students and residents. They practice in 39 communities.
  
• All family medicine residents must do at least a three month "community rotation" , with the largest community being Truro, Nova Scotia, with a population of 13,000. 
  
• Fourteen of our 17 specialty residency training programs have rotations in New Brunswick hospitals.
  
• This year, 35 per cent of Dalhousie Medical students chose to do their residency training in the Maritimes; 41 per cent (34 students) have chosen Family Medicine.

For more information contact the Communications Office, Dalhousie Medical School, tel: (902) 494-2756, e-mail medcomm@dal.ca