Author: UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Program

Greeting Preceptors & Residents!

Just a gentle reminder to please buddy up and complete your four video reviews this year. As many of you are delivering virtual care from your clinics, this is a great opportunity to hone your telepractice skills and webside manner.

Find attached our updated version of the FAQs on Video Reviews that takes into account some of our current constraints. If you have any questions or concerns regarding conducting observations, please contact me at jacqueline.ashby@ubc.ca.

Warm regards,

Jacqueline
Site Faculty Lead, Assessment & Evaluation

“International examples of Indigenous-led health partnerships have also incorporated traditional Indigenous knowledge and culture. The Nuka System of Care, for example, respectfully designed in response to the desires of Indigenous Peoples who use and own it, has incorporated traditional Indigenous knowledge and cultural services over the past 30 years in Southcentral Alaska. A 2013 review of the Nuka system partnerships over a 10-year period highlighted improvements in various health indicators, including reduced emergency department use by 42%, reduced hospital days by 36%, reduced staff turnover by 75%, increased childhood vaccinations by 25%, and increased patient and client reports of satisfaction in cultural safety at 94%. Similarly, there is evidence of improved health outcomes where Indigenous-led partnerships were developed in Japan, China, South Korea, India, Vietnam, Nicaragua and Australia. Table 2 highlights several international partnerships and health outcomes that can inform Canadian practice.”

Learn more here on Indigenous-led health care partnerships in Canada via CMAJ.

Image from Red dress window art project brings MMIWG awareness from the classroom to the masses via CBC.

“’We made this video as a gift to the kids who are all stuck at home during this extraordinarily tough and scary time,’ said VSO bassoonist Julia Lockhart, who is joined in the video by Karen Gerbrecht on violin, Michelle Goddard on clarinet, Malcolm Armstrong on bass and percussionist Vern Griffiths who keeps the beat on some pots and pans.”

Read more on Watch: VSO musicians celebrate ‘Star Wars Day’ in isolation via the Vancouver Sun.

May the fourth (and your mask) be with you!

For further information on this session, please visit BC Women’s Hospital Virtual Research Rounds here (connection info should be posted soon) or contact me directly and I’ll forward you the link.

Warm regards,

Jacqueline

“What I found is that in the Smallpox Eradication Programme people of all colors, all religions, all races, so many countries, came together. And it took working as a global community to conquer a global pandemic. Now, I feel that we have become victims of centrifugal forces. We’re in our nationalistic kind of barricades. We will not be able to conquer a pandemic unless we believe we’re all in it together. This is not some Age of Aquarius, or Kumbaya statement, this is what a pandemic forces us to realize. We are all in it together, we need a global solution to a global problem. Anything less than that is unthinkable.” ~ Dr. Larry Brilliant

Watch his recent TED Talk on A Global Pandemic Calls for Global Solutions here.

Great visual above highlighting key points for those transitioning their teaching and content to an online format (via Arizona State University). For those teaching in the clinic and adapting to delivering virtual care, check out McGill University’s Telemedicine site for video modules and resources (Thanks Bill for sharing). Our Abbotsford-Mission site also has links to a variety of UBC learning opportunities.

For those preparing Academic Half Day sessions, learn a few strategies to bolster engagement and refine your powerpoint for online presentations.

Want to chat more on the topic? Feel free to email me at jacqueline.ashby@ubc.ca.

Warmly,

Jacqueline

Virtual Pub & Papers 2020: Scholar Event
Wednesday, May 13
7:00 – 9:15 p.m.
Zoom link (provided via email, closer to date)

Join our UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Program as we recognize our Residents’ scholarly achievements and the contributions of our fantastic Preceptors and Rotation Leads.

This engagement is an opportunity for our Residents to share their research with our surrounding community and for our program to continue to network, collaborate, and build upon the ideas and insights emerging from our Residents’ work.

Check out our Pub & Papers 2020 Agenda & Scholar Project Summaries to learn more about what we have in store!

UPDATE: This event has been accredited by UBC CPD
Certification statement
The University of British Columbia Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide study credits for continuing medical education for physicians.  This program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 2.0 Mainpro+ Group Learning credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity. CFPC Session ID#: 192505-001

Warm regards, 

Drs. Iris Liu, Jennafer Wilson, & Jacqueline Ashby

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“There is a lot of fear in this current story, and until recently, the stories that seemed to have the most power are those of bitterness, of how it had all gone wrong for us individually and collectively. It has been inspiring to watch how the best comes from the worst. How people are waking up in this time of global reckoning to the realization that our connections with each other are some of the most important things we have.

But stepping back. For all we’ve had to lament, we spend very little time relishing the single biggest thing that has ever gone right for us. That we are here in the first place, that we are alive at all. That we are still alive. A million and a half years after finding a box of matches, we haven’t totally burned the house down. Yet. The chances of being here are infinitesimal. Yet here we are. Perils and all.” ~ Oliver Jeffers

Enjoy more of Oliver’s observations on how our ‘beautiful, fragile drama of human civilization’ is evolving here.