Author: UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Program

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)
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“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.

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Learn more at Canadiem.
#TeachingThatCounts #MedEd

Learn more at Canadiem.
Thank you Bill for sharing!

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CHES distributes a collection of medical education article abstracts to members. “We thank Dr. Gisèle Bourgeois-Law who has created these summaries for the education community at the Island Medical Program. While these articles have a medical education focus, we are using this opportunity to explore the value of such an initiative to our larger CHES community. Article themes include topics such as: feedback and mindfulness, those by local/BC educators, those relevant to a distributed medical program, and those with new ideas. Our aim is to include a variety of quantitative and qualitative research articles, review articles, and concept articles, some of which contain an interesting editorial or commentary. This summary is not meant to be comprehensive, nor to include everything of potential interest.”

If you would like to nominate an article for future inclusion or have any questions, please email ches.communications@ubc.ca.

A couple that caught my eye on the list:

“But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”

~ David Whyte in Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words (2015)

“The field of crowdsourcing has developed in information technology or business, but crowdsourcing can be a promising tool in health, and in global health in particular. It is rapid, low cost, and can collect a huge amount of information from a large number of people. It also is a flexible method that has the potential to cover a variety of research, including quickly evolving epidemiological research and traditional behavioural research. It can cover unpredictable events, produce novel discoveries, and can also be used to raise public awareness. Research in crowdsourcing has also been shown to be at least as accurate as traditional research methods.”

More on Applications of Crowdsourcing in Health: An Overview (2018) by Kerri Wazny via Journal of Global Health

More on Diagnosis by Dr. Lisa Sanders via The New York Times