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• Clerkship is continuing.
• Understanding that some clinical experiences may be different than they had been in the past; we are confident that all objectives can be successfully completed in the current clinical environments, both in Block Rotations and LICD sites.

• Clerkship is continuing.
• Understanding that some clinical experiences may be different than they had been in the past; we are confident that all objectives can be successfully completed in the current clinical environments, both in Block Rotations and LICD sites.

Students, as well as faculty and staff, are being advised to be fully vaccinated prior to arriving on campus. Dalhousie strongly encourages all students and community members who are able to be vaccinated for COVID-19 to do so. However, it is not a requirement to come back to campus.

Vaccination to COVID-19 is current required by Nova Scotia Health as a condition to work and study there. 

Nova Scotia
Dr. Evelyn Sutton
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education
Email: evelyn.sutton@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1890

New Brunswick
Dr. Jennifer Hall
Associate Dean, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick
Email: jennifer.hall@dal.ca
Phone: 506-636-6979

Nova Scotia
Dr. Sue Zinck, Assistant Dean, Student Affairs
Email: suzanne.zinck@dal.ca

New Brunswick:
Dr. Lisa Sutherland, Director, Student Affairs
Phone: (506) 643-1431

Dalhousie Student Health and Wellness continues to provide both health and counselling services for students. Most services have transitioned to telephone or video-based contacts. One can make an appointment online at dal.ca/studenthealth/bookonline or by calling the Student Health and Wellness Centre at 902-494-2171. 

Student Affairs has also created a helpful Brightspace site to bring together in one place relevant information for students. To access Student Support Services, log in to Brightspace and click on the course called “Student Support Services.” There you will find:

• Information about the new grading policy
• remote learning resources
• faculty-level academic supports
• student health resources
• contact information for Advising and Career Services, including a virtual front desk where you can chat with a staff member
• contact information for writing support
• information about financial resources
• information about library services

More information on Student Supports (including Arrival in NS and a Declaration of Absence Form) can be found here.

• All of Dalhousie Libraries’ online resources (databases, ebooks, ejournals) are still available. Should you experience any problems accessing resources, please contact Library.Eresources@dal.ca.
• Subject liaisons are available to help with research and library assistance. Please contact ugmelib@dal.ca and one of the Medicine liaisons can assist you.
• Dalhousie Libraries’ eReserve service is available to create reliable links to content in Brightspace, and the library can scan specific chapters of print Reserve items to post to Brightspace.
• Dalhousie Libraries’ LiveHelp service is available anytime for faculty and students. You can access the chat box here: https://libraries.dal.ca/help/ask-us.html
• Anything that can be delivered electronically (articles, conference papers, book chapters) can be ordered through Document Delivery. NOTE: This does not include print books or entire e-books.
• Scholarship@Dal Libraries webinars and UNIWeb training sessions are still taking place. See what is being offered on the Dalhousie Libraries’ Events Calendar.
• Need help with remote teaching? Take in an Academic Technology Services (ATS) virtual drop-in session, running Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 8:00 PM (Atlantic Time). More information here: https://www.dal.ca/dept/elearning.html  
  
• DMNB students still have access to the UNBSJ library spaces and collections. Students can book a seat it in the library by visiting https://lib.unb.ca/services/bookings. They can also request an item from the collection by visiting the UNB library catalogue and making the request there.
• Any changes to Dalhousie Libraries services will be posted here: https://libraries.dal.ca/covid-19-updates.html

Residency programs are continuing, but all residents, like other physicians, are potentially subject to redeployment / reassignment.  Every effort will be made to begin with volunteers. 

Residents will not be penalized academically for work related to redeployment that falls outside their usual training program rotations. In cases where terminal competencies have not been achieved and a resident is at the end of training, training extension may be offered in accordance with our usual practice.

NSH officials will work with PGME and programs to minimize redeployment to the degree possible. Our guidelines ensure that we redeploy residents to areas most proximal to their training discipline and in accordance with their individual skills and abilities. 

To this end, program directors have been contacted to ask that all residents be assigned a specific general work category that best aligns with their skill set.  Categories include: no patient contact, capable of ward-based care with supervision, capable of supervising on a ward, and capable of ICU care.  Should you have specific concerns or questions about your work level assignment, please contact your program director. This approach aligns with NSH work categories for faculty members.

Through its guidelines on response to mass casualty events and public health emergencies Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine has endorsed the principle that all
registered PG learners including residents and Dalhousie fellows are subject to these redeployment measures by virtue of their status in the hospitals.

Redeployment under such circumstances is the jurisdiction of the hospital administrative leaders who are charged with providing care to the population. The VPs Medicine or their delegates at our affiliated health authorities will advise the Faculty of the relevant measures taken involving PG learners through the Academic Issues Committee and the Dean, Senior Associate Dean, and/or Associate Dean, PGME.

• Resident Redployment Principles (PDF)

• All residents are required to have two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
• Electives will move forward as planned, following current travel guidelines.
• Travel guidelines are different depending on the province in which your home training site is based. 
  

These documents will walk you through the requirements of training and key considerations for programs, as well as processes for attestations of training.

• COVID-01-Time_050720_Meeting training requirements
• COVID-02-CBD_050720_Meeting training requirements
• COVID-03-AFC_050720_Meeting training requirements
• COVID-01-Time_AttachmentA_Re-Affirmation letter

Nova Scotia & PEI
Dr. Andrew Warren
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education
Email: andrew.warren@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1850

New Brunswick
Dr. Jennifer Hall
Associate Dean, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick
Email: jennifer.hall@dal.ca
Phone: 506-636-6979

Dr. Lisa Sutherland
Director Student and Resident Affairs
Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick
Email: sutherll@dal.ca
Phone: 506-643-1431

Dr. Carolyn Thomson, Assistant Dean, Resident Affairs
Phone: (902) 494-3232    
Email: Carolyn.thomson@dal.ca

Remote Library Services

• All of Dalhousie Libraries’ online resources (databases, ebooks, ejournals) are still available. Should you experience any problems accessing resources, please contact Library.Eresources@dal.ca.
• Subject liaisons are available to help with research and library assistance. Please contact ugmelib@dal.ca and one of the Medicine liaisons can assist you.
• Dalhousie Libraries’ eReserve service is available to create reliable links to content in Brightspace, and the library can scan specific chapters of print Reserve items to post to Brightspace.
• Dalhousie Libraries’ LiveHelp service is available anytime for faculty and students. You can access the chat box here: https://libraries.dal.ca/help/ask-us.html
• Anything that can be delivered electronically (articles, conference papers, book chapters) can be ordered through Document Delivery. NOTE: This does not include print books or entire e-books.
• Scholarship@Dal Libraries webinars and UNIWeb training sessions are still taking place. See what is being offered on the Dalhousie Libraries’ Events Calendar.
• Need help with remote teaching? Take in an Academic Technology Services (ATS) virtual drop-in session, running Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 8:00 PM (Atlantic Time). More information here: https://www.dal.ca/dept/elearning.html  
  
• DMNB students still have access to the UNBSJ library spaces and collections. Students can book a seat it in the library by visiting https://lib.unb.ca/services/bookings. They can also request an item from the collection by visiting the UNB library catalogue and making the request there.
• Any changes to Dalhousie Libraries services will be posted here: https://libraries.dal.ca/covid-19-updates.html

• Graduate level courses in the Faculty of Medicine may resume in-person on January 31, 2022, at the discretion of the professor. Please check with your professor for further details.
• All in-person learning will be conducted in full compliance with Dalhousie’s safety plan and the Nova Scotia postsecondary framework. All learning will take place in classroom and lab spaces that exceed minimum targets for air exchange as outlined in Dalhousie’s ventilation strategy. The postsecondary framework does not have restrictions on classroom sizes.

Dalhousie Student Health and Wellness continues to provide both health and counselling services for students. Most services have transitioned to telephone or video-based contacts. One can make an appointment online at dal.ca/studenthealth/bookonline or by calling the Student Health and Wellness Centre at 902-494-2171. 

Student Affairs has also created a helpful Brightspace site to bring together in one place relevant information for students. To access Student Support Services, log in to Brightspace and click on the course called “Student Support Services.” There you will find:

• Information about the new grading policy
• remote learning resources
• faculty-level academic supports
• student health resources
• contact information for Advising and Career Services, including a virtual front desk where you can chat with a staff member
• contact information for writing support
• information about financial resources
• information about library services

More information on Student Supports (including Arrival in NS and a Declaration of Absence Form) can be found here.

Call for Peer Support Students
Hello! The Faculty of Medicine Graduate Student Society is proud to announce the formation of The Faculty of Medicine Graduate Student Peer Support Network. We are currently looking for at least two graduate student volunteers from each department to fill the role of peer support student. You will be educated on mental health resources and trained in active listening and mental health support for students in distress. The volunteer position is strictly for peer support. Volunteers will not be asked to provide ounselling or primary care.

If you are intested, please reach out to one of the following:

Adrian Herod: Adrian.Herod@Dal.Ca
Prathyusha Konda:Prathyusha.Konda@Dal.Ca
Patrick Slaine: Patrick.Slaine@Dal.ca

• Teams group for all FoM students
• Facebook page
• Mailing list
  

• Researchers, graduate students, and research support staff, continue their important work in the Tupper Building and other distributed locations, and there is no plan to reduce research activities at Dalhousie.
• Research at Nova Scotia Health and IWK facilities may be disrupted – faculty, students, and staff working in these facilities will continue to follow directives from these institutions. 
• Respirators such as N95 or KN95 can be worn if people wish to do so but are not required unless task-specific hazards require their use. For most cases, especially when others in the area are also wearing masks, a three-layer non-medical or medical/surgical mask is sufficient.  

The Medical Research Development Office has created a page with information regarding funding opportunities, search tools, and external updates.

Please visit: https://medicine.dal.ca/research-dal-med/covid-19-information.html, for more information.

• As of today, CORE facilities will remain open to users as per normal, except where CORES staff are unable to meet Public Health requirements for safe distancing.
• This may mean that users who have not already been trained for the use of a piece of equipment will be unable to use it.
• Users will be required to wash their hands upon entry to, and before leaving, the CORE.
• Please contact the CORE Manager for information on changes to normal service as this may change as things evolve, and please sensitive to these issues as you plan your upcoming research plans.

All campus events and gatherings can resume in accordance with the Public Health guidelines, as of February 14.

This pertains to:

• Essential student events and activities (e.g., residence life programming, student programming). 
• All meetings among faculty and staff, and interviews for potential job candidates.
• Non-essential events or activities held indoors (including DSU student society events). Outdoor activities are permitted provided they comply with provincial restrictions.

Please note:

• Where an event or activity takes place in-person and indoors:
• Masks MUST be worn at all times
• Food or drink continues to be discouraged, unless social distancing is possible

• Faculty and staff are encouraged to visit: https://www.dal.ca/novel-coronavirus.html for the most up-to-date information from Dalhousie University.

A reminder to our community to be vigilant and cautious with email in your inbox and the tools being used to communicate and share information. More details can be found at the Remote Working site under the Technology Resources menu, including:

• COVID-19 Related Scams: a number of malicious actors are taking the opportunity to exploit fears about the infection, and use alerts and other communications to trick people into installing malware on your devices. Don't click on a link or open an attachment of anything suspicious. "When it doubt, throw it out." More information can be found here.
• Technology Security Topics (link): contains information related to Zoom Risks and Best Practices, VPNs and Remote Access, Securing Mobile Devices, Protection from Phishing, and much more.

The Continuing Professional Development & Medical Education Office has compiled useful information related to COVID-19 for both physicians and the general public.

• General public information
• Physician resources