Author: UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Program

A play inspired by conversations with families during a province wide study on pregnancy and childbirth in British Columbia

“Over the past 5 years, the Women’s Health Research Institute partnered with the Birth Place Lab and communities across British Columbia to collect information about their preferences and experiences during pregnancy and childbirth. In the Changing Childbirth in BC Study, people filled out an online survey or joined a focus group. They spoke of caring, supportive, and exceptional care, and also of discrimination, disrespect, and mistreatment that they encountered in the health care system.

The Changing Childbirth in BC Study invites you to a performance inspired by the thousands of stories families shared about their experiences of pregnancy and birth. Afterwards, join us for a Talk Back session! Bring your ideas on how to improve health care for parents and babies in BC.”

Learn more here to participate and attend.

“A neuroscientist and a storyteller walk into a bar. Well, it was more like a breakfast spot, but the pairing was unusual enough to be the start of a good joke. Earlier that week, IDEO’s Dav Rauch had given a presentation to a packed room of conference attendees. The neuroscientist, Allan Snyder, invited him to breakfast to chat about Dav’s presentation and share some of his own work. The research he explained over that breakfast led Dav to an epiphany that fundamentally changed his understanding of storytelling and the way he presents information.”

More on How to Be a Better Presenter by IDEO.

“’This centre will provide primary care services for people in our community who do not have a family doctor,’ Dr. Caroline Cook, the co-chair of the Abbotsford Division of Family Practice said Friday. ‘It will also provide urgent out-of-hospital care for everyone.’

The primary care centre is the 15th announced by the government. Twelve are already operating.

The Abbotsford Division of Family Practice, a group of local patients, UBC family practice residents and Fraser Health all had input in the design of the centre.”

More on New urgent care clinic in Abbotsford to be open weekends, evenings via The Abbotsford News.

Extremely proud of our UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residents for contributing to this design process and being part of the solution.

Warmly,

Jacqueline

“If you look at history, innovation does not come just from giving people incentives;

it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.”

~ Author Steven Johnson

“Dr. Victoria Brazil from Bond University and Gold Coast Health Australia, suggests that translational simulation can be used to link educational activities to patient level outcomes even though measurement outcomes may be harder to measure. Brazil suggests that medical simulation should focus on ‘not where but why.’ ‘Descriptions of simulation type often use the device (e.g. high fidelity mannequin simulation) or place, e.g. in situ simulation (ISS), but these descriptors underplay the critical importance of outcomes from simulation, e.g. individual competence, team behaviors or patient level outcomes'” (Brazil Advances in Simulation (2017) 2:20. DOI 10.1186/s41077-017-0052-3).

Translational simulation encompasses the concept of Systems Integration defined by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) as ‘those simulation programs which demonstrate consistent, planned collaborative, integrated and iterative application of simulation-based assessment and teaching activities with systems engineering and risk management principles to achieve excellent bedside clinical care, enhanced patient safety, and improved metrics across the healthcare system'”.

More on Using Translational Simulation in Healthcare to Improve Patient Outcomes via HealthySimulation.com.

“Segenet Kelemu is a molecular plant pathologist whose cutting-edge research is dedicated to helping the world’s smallholder farmers grow more food and rise out of poverty. ‘The drive of my life is to make a difference in people’s lives and to improve agriculture in Africa,’ she shares. Kelemu grew up in a poor farming family in Ethiopia and was the first woman from her region to get a college degree. ‘In my village, girls were married off at a very young age, but luckily I was too rebellious for anyone to arrange a marriage for me,’ she laughs. ‘I was really determined to go to university.’

More on Devoted to discovery: Seven women scientists who have shaped our world via Medium.

#WomenInScience #DevotedToDiscovery

Greetings Residents!

Your scholar projects final manuscripts are due to the Program Office February 28.

• Remediation work, if necessary: March 2 – May 31
• Deadline to apply for Lloyd Jones Collins Award: March 31
• Presentations due to Program Office: June 12, 2020
• Central Lloyd Jones Collins Scholarship Day: June 19, 2020

I encourage you all to apply for the Lloyd Jones Collins Award. If you want a final read through prior to submission forward it to me.

Warmly,

Jacqueline

WHO_nCoV_Introductory Video from openWHO on Vimeo.

“Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are known to cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

A novel coronavirus (CoV) was identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. This is a new coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans.

This course provides a general introduction to nCoV and emerging respiratory viruses and is intended for public health professionals, incident managers and personnel working for the United Nations, international organizations and NGOs.”

Take the course here. More on Emerging respiratory viruses, including nCoV: methods for detection, prevention, response and control and Online training as a weapon to fight the new coronavirus via World Health Organization.

The next presentation in the AMEE Webinar series will be presented by, Jonathan McFarland, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University -“Medical Humanities: a way to transform society” on Tuesday the 11th of February 2020 at 14:00 (2pm) GMT.

The humanities are now very topical in medical education; for instance, in the last AMEE conference, there was a whole theme dedicated to them. More and more understand that the humanities are needed to restore balance to an increasingly scientific and technologically orientated curricula. The practice of medicine is, however, to do with people, and the humanities are necessary to help health professionals deal with people’s preoccupations, worries and concerns.

Taking this as a starting point the main concern of this webinar will be how the (re)introduction of the humanities into medical education and practice can help not only on an individual and personal level (i.e. the Doctor-patient relationship) but also on a wider societal and global level. How the humanities are needed to help change and transform society at this critical and complicated moment.

As of 2019, the AMEE webinar series will be entirely free. Please register here
Due to limited space, it is advisable to join on time as AMEE cannot guarantee entry to the webinars.