Ornge Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine Fellowship
Fellowship Title:
Ornge Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine Fellowship
Division:
Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Type:
Clinical
Supervisor:
Dr. Joel Lockwood
Duration:
1 year
Application Open and Close Date:
September 1st
Anticipated Start Date(s):
July 1st
Number of position(s) per year:
1
Description:
Ornge, a not-for-profit organization, is Ontario’s provider of air ambulance and related services. Established in 2006, Ornge is responsible for approximately 21,000 patient-related transports each year, serving a population of more than 13 million people across 1 million square kilometres. With a fleet that includes airplanes, helicopters and land ambulances operating from 12 bases across the province, Ornge crews perform emergent and urgent inter-facility transports and emergent on-scene responses while supporting healthcare in remote communities across Ontario. The Ornge team consists of paramedics, pilots, aircraft maintenance engineers, communications officers, physicians, educators and support staff.
The Fellowship will provide a unique experience specifically focused on air medical and land critical care transport. The Fellowship will include an immersive clinical experience in critical care transport in both an urban helicopter emergency medical services environment and fixed-wing opportunities in resource-challenged settings in rural and remote locations throughout northern Ontario. The hospital-based experiences may also include trauma team leader experience at Canada’s busiest trauma centres in Toronto.
The successful applicant will be a member of a physician-paramedic team caring for some of the most severely ill and injured patients in Ontario. The clinical care will take place in the transport environment and resource-limited settings, with challenges not typically present in the traditional hospital setting. The Fellowship program will also provide the successful candidate with training and experience to work in Ornge’s Operations Control Centre as a member of the Ornge Transport Medicine Physician Team.
Successful candidates will have completed training in Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia or Critical Care Medicine in a program accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or international equivalent, or Emergency Medicine in a program accredited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. International applicants with relevant training and experience are also strongly encouraged to apply. The successful candidate must be legally entitled to work in Canada, and hold an educational license with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to practice medicine in Ontario
