Author: UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Program

After Timothy Aungst, PharmD read Kini & Ho’s (2018) “Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence: A Review” he designed the tracking pathway above to illustrate the process and place where digital health technologies may play a meaningful role in tracking medication adherence:

“The key thing I am pointing out here is tracking and not modifying adherence. I do not think we are there where technology alone can be a digital therapeutic (maybe with time though) that can change adherence alone. Rather, I support the use of digital technologies as an adjunct tool to track actionable data to be utilized by a health team to intervene on medication adherence with objective data points.”
Timothy Aungst on How to Track Medication Adherence with Digital Health Technologies

#MadeMeThink #DigitalHealthTech #Innovation #DigitalMedicine

Starting off our new year, I want to connect with you and learn how your journey is progressing. As your Program Coach, one of my objectives is to meet with Preceptors and Residents to discuss your goals and ideas as well as provide you with the educational resources you need for success. We’ve also got a few events in the works that I’d like to gather your thoughts on. I’ll be reaching out via email to schedule you in! Coffee is my treat!

Warm regards,

Jacqueline

“The AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub: Digital Health Circle will bring communities and experts together to tackle age-related challenges, support partnerships to create real-world solutions, develop talent to meet the needs of B.C.’s tech businesses and help older adults in B.C. and across Canada live well. ‘Our aim is to leverage the extensive resources already established in B.C. to spur the development of technologies and services in the digital health sector,’ says Andrew Sixsmith, scientific co-director of AGE-WELL and an SFU gerontology professor. ‘The new ideas that are generated and products created will benefit older people and caregivers right across Canada.'”

More on SFU’s AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub. Visit AGE-WELL Canada’s Technology and Aging Network here.

Our Ann Douglas, Board President at Maplewood Care Society and UBC Program Coordinator, will be sharing her perspective and experience working within Residential Care at our upcoming Academic Half Day. Following her session, we will be heading out to Maplewood Care Society to meet with staff and briefly tour the facility:

Thursday, January 24, 2019
8:30-10:00 Board President Ann Douglas and UBC Site Director Dr. Holden Chow
10:00-12:00 Visit at Maplewood Care Society

Maplewood comprises MSA Manor, with 34 complex care beds and Maplewood House, with 76 complex care beds, including 23 special care beds. Maplewood also has 17 spaces for the Older Adult Day Program and has a Care Giver Support Group.

Ann Douglas serves as President on the Board of Directors at Maplewood Care Society, a non-profit society and registered charitable organization.  She also works as the Program Coordinator for the UBC Family Practice Residency Program at the Abbotsford-Mission site. Ann started her career in Finance and Business consulting. She then decided her calling was in healthcare and trained as a nurse, working in Home Care, Long-Term Care, and Seniors’ Housing. While employed in Independent and Assisted Living, she received the Innovation Award as part of a team who developed a Private Pay model that provides services to enhance quality of life as well as offer more choices for tenants.

~ Wild Geese by poet Mary Oliver from Dream Work

I’m hooked on @future_crunch (Thank you Dr. Husband) and their 99 good news stories from 2018!

Social Prescriptions for better health.

By what right? The confrontation at Wedzin Kwah.

Summer Education Institute: Teaching for Transformation (Thank you Dr. Ross)

Made me smile! MacGyver tips for physicians (Thank you Dr. Liu)

Dalhousie’s Sleepwell (Thank you Dr. Dickinson)

Dr. Crosby’s “The impatient patient” (Thank you Dr. Westgeest)

Have a passion for health education research? Consider joining UBC’s CHES.

Three things clinicians should know about disability.

B.C.’s leaking methane gas.

How one man’s loss is transforming perspectives.

I am so at this in September!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Onward and upward,

Jacqueline

“To cope with escalating complexity in health care we must abandon linear models, accept unpredictability, respect (and utilise) autonomy and creativity, and respond flexibly to emerging patterns and opportunities.”

Paul E Plsek and Trisha Greenhalgh on The Challenge of Complexity in Health Care.

The Friedman Award for Scholars in Health supports learning and research opportunities for graduate students or medical residents working in the broad area of health, to bring new perspectives to their education and further their career.

The Friedman Award for Scholars in Health is named after two of the earliest faculty members in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Sydney Friedman and his wife Dr. Constance Livingstone-Friedman believed that well-rounded and transformative education includes learning from different perspectives and cultures, and they wished to support such learning among UBC graduate students and medical residents.

Awards of up to $50,000 each will be granted for six or more months of study. Award amount will be at the discretion of the adjudication committee. Each recipient of a Friedman Award will be designated a “Friedman Scholar”.

Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2019
Learn more or apply here.

To learn more or apply, visit CPD Grants!

Wow! What an intense debate this evening. Congratulations to Team 1 including JD (Captain), Kathleen, Michelle, James, Jen W, and Joseph! Although your opening statement was a bit weak, you managed to pull off the win with your rebuttal and closing statement! And congratulations to Dan on your MVP award! FYI *JD’s points could be challenged based on my replay review (one foot not two!). Talk with Dr. Liu about how she scored him. As I recall, you won by ~28 pts. It may be worth it.

As the winning team, you have a choice between a dessert with your team name emblazoned on it at the next Journal Club or I’ll make you homemade ice cream and you can design the flavour!

Great job to both groups!

See you tomorrow morning at Academic Half Day!

Warm regards,

Jacqueline

Thanks @Northern_Health for sharing!