Month: January 2020

Canadian Association for Health Humanities Conference
Creating Space 10: What’s in a Word: Exploring the Multiple Meanings of Humanism in Contemporary Healthcare & Health Professions Education

“Creating Space was launched in 2010 with a desire to ‘take the pulse of our shared work from multiple disciplines…as they intersect with health-care experiences in various settings’. In the years that have followed, the conference has annually brought together artists, writers, scholars, clinicians, activists, students and many others to consider the intersections of arts, humanities, and social science (AHSS) disciplines with medical sciences and health professions education. Ten years on, it is clear that that pulse is stronger than ever. From coast to coast to coast, ideas are circulating, dialogues are unfolding, and innovation and scholarship are changing health professions education. As perhaps the latest sign that the health humanities have arrived in force, the 2020 Canadian Conference on Medical Education’s (CCME) theme is ‘weaving humanism into medical education’. The timing could not be better; educating for humanism in the contemporary world offers a powerful reminder that the lives of others are inextricably bound up in our own.”

This conference will be held in Vancouver on April 17-18, 2020. The Call for Proposals is available here. Abstract deadline extended to January 20, 2020. Registration is now available here.

“Starting today, all new Canadian Medical Association Journal content is now freely available online, with older material becoming available on March 1, 2020.

Previously, CMAJ research articles, editorials and news stories were freely available, and other content including commentaries and practice articles were only fully available after one year.

Dr. Andreas Laupacis, editor-in-chief of the journal, says providing immediate free access to content will make the journal more relevant to discussions about improving Canada’s healthcare system.

‘Some of the material in CMAJ that is useful to public discussion around important issues with our healthcare system were only available to CMA members and I think they are of broader interest to members of the public, patients and policymakers,’ he says.

With more accessible content, Laupacis hopes to attract new voices to CMAJ, including those of patients. ‘It’s hard to say to patients that we want you to be involved in our work, but you have to pay to see it,’ he says.

Learn more here.

Presented by UBC Learning Circle: Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health

“Join us as we welcome Daryl, Carla, and Megan to share with us their thoughts on traditional foods, land-based actions, and the ever-more important question of food sovereignty for Indigenous people. Additionally, we will discuss ways in which non-indigenous people can stand in solidarity with Indigenous people for food sovereignty.”

Date: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 (PST)
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:30 am
Where: Videoconference OR internet webinar.
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Registration: To register for webinar or videoconference, please visit here.

“The word presence refers to a purposeful practice of awareness, focus, and attention with the intent to understand and connect with patients.^4,5 The interpersonal interactions of clinical care give physicians insight that cannot be garnered from an electronic health record. This gathering of nuanced, personal data (eg, what is important to a patient; how a patient’s symptoms affect her or his life, goals, and preferences for treatment) cultivates respect and trust between patients and physicians and can reduce the miscommunication and oversight that leads to medical error.

The objective of this study was to identify evidence-based practices that foster this time-honored ritual between physicians and patients to create connection, particularly in the first moments of a clinical encounter. To ensure that these measures are useful and easily implemented, the study focused on specific actions, behaviors, and communication strategies that clinicians could easily adopt and utilize in a busy clinical practice.”

More on Practices to Foster Physician Presence and Connection With Patients in the Clinical Encounter by Zulman et al. in Jama Network.

How Amazon, Google and Apple Plan Plan to Disrupt Healthcare: Ron Galloway speaks at HealthSpace

“In the coming years Walmart will drive healthcare by determining where many of us have major surgery, Galloway said. They’re opening 13 ‘centers of excellence’ nationwide—medical destination locations similar to the Mayo Clinic. ‘This shows that Walmart is not a store. Walmart is an IT company.’”

‘So, let’s say you live in Phoenix and you’re going to have open-heart surgery. Walmart will pay for you and a companion to travel to the Cleveland Clinic to have the procedure,’ he explained, adding that if this practice expands to other Fortune 500 companies, it will have a big, detrimental impact on local hospitals because they’ll lose income from expensive procedures (like heart surgery) which will be performed at centralized locations, rather than locally.

‘So local hospitals will be left out in the cold.’”

For the article, see How Amazon, Google and Apple Plan to Disrupt Healthcare by Andy Smith via HealthSpaces.

The International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE) is the world’s largest conference devoted exclusively to advancing residency education. Their upcoming conference in Vancouver, Canada (September 24-26, 2020), will feature six plenaries, 21 learning tracks, more than 60 workshops and approximately 200 poster and paper presentations.

The theme of this year’s conference is Next Generation Residency Education: Game Changers and Proven Practices.

Calls for Submissions

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