Month: September 2019

Faculty Development Breakfast: Clinical Education Transformation Project (CETP)
Over the past year, Dr. Christie Newton and I have spoken to 80+ (preceptors, residents, staff) on the current status of our clinical education paradigm and how we can improve the experience for residents, preceptors, and patients. In this session, I’ll share our findings and recommendations. Residents are invited.

Location: Abbotsford Division of Family Practice
Facilitator: Jacqueline Ashby, Ed.D.
Please RSVP for breakfast catering.

Are you a problem solver? Love a good challenge? Enjoy working collaboratively?

Stanford’s Medicine X Educational Grand Challenge on COPD begins Monday, September 9!

“Medicine X educational grand challenge will be organized into five steps. We invite our Medicine X community to participate with us as we guide you through each of these separate steps of the educational challenge. Over the next few weeks, you will learn more about each of these steps as we guide you through the work. Won’t you join us as we explore how we might learn more about COPD and engage together with the greater COPD community to create positive change?

We’ve designed our Medicine X educational grand challenge to allow everyone to participate. Through a series of online Tweetchats and webinars we will help guide you through the participation process. You can follow along by checking this webpage for updates and following our Twitter hashtag #MedX.”

Learn more here and register to participate!

Ashley C. Ford: Imagination Is a Creative Superpower from 99U on Vimeo.

“Racism is not really about hate. Racism is about a lack of imagination. Racism is about what you can’t imagine what that other person being worth, being worthy of, or being able to contribute to the world.”

~ Ashley Ford

“In her inspiring 99U talk, writer Ashley C. Ford explains how significant life experiences opened up her ability to expect things she didn’t previously think were possible for herself and others. The lack of imagination, Ashley tells us, is what holds us back as humans. But nurturing the superpower of imagination within yourself opens up endless possibilities for your work, life, and impact on other people.

About Ashley C. Ford: Ashley C. Ford is a writer, podcaster and educator who lives in Brooklyn. She is writing a memoir entitled Somebody’s Daughter, which will be published by Flatiron Books under the imprint An Oprah Book. Ford is working on a collection of interviews (B-Side Chats) with her husband, Kelly Stacy.

She was also the host of the first season of Audible.Com’s literary interview series, Authorized. She has been named among Forbes Magazine‘s 30 Under 30 in Media (2017), Brooklyn Magazine‘s Brooklyn 100 (2016), and Time Out New York‘s New Yorkers of The Year (2017).” via 99u!

Interested in rural locums? Join Health Force Ontario for a free webinar on “Resources for Rural & Northern Locums”:

Date: September 10, 2019
Time: 5-6 pm ET

Learn practical tips, common pitfalls, how to find locum opportunities, and more! Register now.

“There was a time when Angelica Lim, a Canadian robotics professor, travelled 20 times a year by plane, often to scientific conferences overseas. Then she took a test to calculate her carbon footprint.

‘I realized that my carbon footprint was something like 20 times over what our goal should be,’ Lim, an assistant professor and artificial intelligence scientist at Simon Fraser University, told CTV News. These days, Lim flies just once or twice a year.
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For Lim, tools like Skype and FaceTime are easy ways to stay in touch. Other solutions include Beam, a mobile video conferencing technology; Double 3, a self-driving videoconferencing robot; and virtual reality conferencing using 3D technology.
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Universities are beginning to follow suit. Concordia University’s geography department adopted a ‘flying less’ policy earlier this year, which encourages researchers to hold ‘travel-free’ meetings and opt for ground transportation for trips 12 hours or less.”

More on Scientists flying less, or not at all, in movement to curb emissions via CTV news.

Calculate your carbon footprint.

*Tagskryt translates to ‘train brag.’ Travellers are using the word to boast about the low-carbon travel option.

#UBC #FlyLess #Innovate #Sustainability #MeaningfulMeetings

“Falls in older adults are the third leading cause of chronic disability. Strength and balance exercises can reduce falls.¹ A home-based strength and balance training program reduced falls in community-dwelling people who were at least 75 years old.^2–4 The most effective method to prevent additional falls among older people who have previously fallen is not established.”

This study found that “a home-based exercise program reduced subsequent falls in community-dwelling older adults who sought medical attention after a fall. The rate of reduction was similar to results of a meta-analysis of 4 randomized trials of these home-based exercises in community-dwelling older adults selected on age alone (ie, primary fall prevention).²⁸ This trial provides new evidence by demonstrating benefits of a home-based exercise program in secondary fall prevention.”

Effect of a Home-Based Exercise Program on Subsequent Falls Among Community-Dwelling High-Risk Older Adults After a Fall: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2019) by Liu-Ambrose et al. via JAMA.

#LifelongExercise #StrengthTraining #BalanceTraining #KeepEducatingYourself