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“This model is not linear — we don’t need to work through all the steps. The key is to ask, ‘What is needed right now?’  For example, I observe that my colleague is anxious. Perhaps I can ask how they could feel more safe, calm, and competent to manage the distress.

It’s not easy to train in new skills to support our mental health when the race has already begun.  We are all going to cycle out of the green zone many times, regardless of our practice of self-care.  We need each other right now to provide peer support to help each of us notice when we’re moving to the right of the stress continuum and pause or pace ourselves so we can complete this marathon together.”

Learn more here on Stress First Aid as a form of Peer Support (This Changed My Practice) by UBC’s Dr. Joanna Creek.

The Centre for Health Education Scholarship will host the 10th Annual CHES Celebration of Scholarship virtually on Wednesday, October 7, 2020! Join us as we adapt to the changing environment and bring opportunities for the CHES community to showcase and share their work in a virtual format! This event will continue to celebrate the many accomplishments of the health professions education scholarship community.

As we move the Celebration of Scholarship virtually, we look forward to offering you the same vibrant programming, impactful networking, and opportunities to reflect and connect over the emerging and prominent topics in our field. The virtual-version of our conference will include our regular offerings, including: Plenary Sessions, Oral and Poster Presentations, and time for networking and community building.

Register here.

“‘We’ve heard many racial slurs from President Trump but also we’ve seen rises in anti-Asian violence, and anti-Asian racism in Canada, the U.S., and globally.’

When a disease is racialized, Mawani says, it can have a profound impact on how people are treated or cared for. In fact, a disproportionate number of COVID-related complications and deaths have affected Indigenous, Black and other communities of colour.

She says the history of the island can help us understand how racism continues to affect the way we treat disease.

‘We’re encouraged to believe that we’re all in this together, but we’re not.'”

More here on How a small B.C. island can help us understand the role of racism in disease treatment via CBC.

“Good times have been linked to community outbreaks of COVID-19 in BC. People in their 20s to 40s have spread the virus to friends, families, and strangers at house parties, bars, restaurants, and more. Let’s help stop the spread.

We all love good times. Follow Dr. Bonnie Henry’s guide, and we can keep each other safe and healthy. Don’t get stuck in self-isolation for 14 days, or worse – get sick, because you shared beers at a party or made out with someone with COVID-19.

Have a good time – safely.”

View the Guide here and visit COVID-19 & Sex for more information on reducing the transmission of the virus.

Choosing Wisely, is a parody of the infectious Pharrell Williams song ‘Happy’. “Helping patients choose care that is supported by evidence, truly necessary, not a duplication, and free from harm.” ~ UBC’s Dr. James McCormack

Thank you Dr. Wilson for sharing. 

The conference will include plenary sessions on a diverse range of topics in family medicine. Virtual breakout groups will provide opportunities to focus learning in areas of interest and specialization. Attendees will leave with a new sense of how to care for themselves as well as for their patients.

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the BC Chapter for up to 5.25 Mainpro+® credits.

The BCCFP Annual General Meeting will also take place as part of the conference.

Learn more and register here.

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THEME: MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
For this hackathon, we are focusing on the theme of mental health and wellbeing. We are encouraged when we hear about efforts and initiatives designed to reduce the stigma of mental health and promote a culture of wellness among our faculty. Unfortunately, we also hear that sometimes the degree of wellness required for participation in these initiatives poses a barrier to the faculty who are more significantly impacted by mental health conditions. Therefore, in order to more broadly support and develop all of our clinical faculty members, this hack will focus on the tools, resources, or approaches that UBC can develop or build upon in order to support the mental health and wellbeing of all our clinical faculty, particularly and including those who struggle in significant ways.

Learn more & join us here!

If you’re feeling fine and have no symptoms of COVID-19, you can still have sex. If you’re feeling sick, skip sex.

Learn more here on COVID-19 and Sex via the BC Centre for Disease Control.

“’Efforts to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus have resulted in extreme social exclusion for people in prison, which negatively and unfairly impacts the mental health and wellbeing for people inside,’ explains project co-lead Kelsey Timler, a PhD student in interdisciplinary studies at UBC. ‘Since mid-March, people in prison have not had access to in-person visits from friends, family and religious and spiritual leaders, and almost all programming has been cancelled. Time passes very slowly, which adds to the stress and anxiety of being incarcerated during a global pandemic. COVID-19 has exacerbated pre-existing inequities and finding ways to support community building and belonging is incredibly important right now.’

‘Work 2 Give gave us the idea of assembling art and reciprocity kits that people in prison can use to produce something personal and meaningful to them,’ said Helen Brown. ‘They can share the resulting art or writings with their family, or they can take part in a reciprocal sharing with the wider community. They can express themselves while still observing physical distancing, and art and writing shared between people in prison and people in the community can support social inclusion and a sense of belonging, of not being alone. In the future, we hope to expand this project to include a job creation program that provides dignified living wages for people leaving prison.’”

More here on UBC team launches art initiative to promote mental health of men in prison by Lou Corpuz-Bosshart.

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