The Red Book - The College of Family Physicians Canada

2. Opportunities for the resident to interact with various organizations, agencies, and servicesthat deliver emergency medical care to the community.3. Opportunities for the resident to secure appropriate, relevant training experience in otherdisciplines related to emergency medicine, especially to adult critical care medicine.4. A minimum of eight months in the emergency department in the combined familymedicine/emergency medicine program, with a minimum of six months in the third year.At completion of the third year of training, the resident will possess the knowledge andskills necessary to develop a leadership role in a community emergency department.5. The equivalent of at least two months of training in emergency and/or critical carepediatrics, which may be part of the eight months of “emergency” training.6. An educational environment which facilitates and encourages residents to maintain anongoing responsibility in a family practice setting throughout the third year.7. A system of evaluation, for both residents and faculty, that is congruent with the principlesoutlined in the B standards.Program OrganizationThe CCFP(EM) residency training program must be conducted in cooperation with theuniversity department or division of family medicine, and provide a curriculum based on theeducational objectives in emergency medicine of the CFPC.The program must have access to facilities of the faculty of medicine, the department offamily medicine, and participating hospitals.The training program must provide a CCFP(EM) program director who holds theCCFP(EM) designation. The director must be responsible to the postgraduate director of thedepartment of family medicine, and must be appointed by that department. The residents inemergency medicine are directly responsible to this individual. The program director must havethe responsibility and authority to assign residents to the appropriate settings and rotations.The CCFP(EM) program director will be assisted by an emergency medicinepostgraduate education committee. The committee will include representation from teachingunits, full- and part-time faculty, residents, and allied health professionals with appointments inthe department.33