Family Medicine Residency Site: Abbotsford-Mission

The annual Teacher’s Toolbox conference on Friday September 16th, at Regent College UBC, Vancouver, is ready to go.

We have excellent Plenary sessions lead by residents again this year, and as well, an exciting facilitator Dr. Rose Hatala (CHES/UBC) presenting her research and reflections on “Meaningful Feedback in Real Life”.  I attended her session at our Fac Dev event in Prince George associated with the RECC conference in the spring and it was excellent.

We have a choice of 2/5 workshops in the afternoon.  2 of those are from our Pillars of Precepting Modules, so attendees can work towards completing their Clinical Teaching Certificate.  3 are brand new workshops facilitated by leaders in our program – Christie Newton, Theresa VanderGoes/Steven Yau, and Evelyn Cornelissen.

It’s going to be a fabulous day.  Please sprinkle this registration link around your site, in case anyone is interested for some Faculty Development in the City.

Register here: https://www.eply.com/teacherstoolbox2016-09-16

There is no registration fee for the event! The cost of travel and accommodation may be covered by your site program, so contact your Site Director or administrator to find out. Breakfast and lunch are included.

Enjoy the rest of your summer, and see you in September!

Dr. Brenda Hardie, BA, BPHE, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Lead Faculty, Faculty Development
UBC Department of Family Practice
Residency Program

Last week at our Academic Half Day, we discussed the benefits of exposing medical professionals to art and the process of making art. I briefly covered how these activities engage the right brain and boost creativity and innovation. The observation of art may also improve your visual literacy. These skills are in demand and desired in our image-based environment of medicine.

This concept is currently exercised in a variety post-secondary institutions and organizations including Harvard, Yale, McMaster University, Boston University, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. UBC has recently followed suit with its own elective course “Rounding at the Belkin.”

I want to encourage both Preceptors and Residents to join me in visiting places and spaces that will ignite our right brains! We will embark on this journey with our first visit to the NEW Audain Art Museum in Whistler, British Columbia on Sunday, August 21st. I’ve secured us a group rate of $15/per person. We will also have access to Studio Sunday! This opportunity will allow us to get our hands dirty and work on drawing Characters and Caricatures. We leave Abbotsford at 6:00 a.m.!

Families are invited! I can fit 4 individuals in my car. If you want to ride with me, let me know!

Cheers!

Jacqueline

Learn more on the topic here:
How Arts Education Can Help Create Better Doctors by Adriana Barton
Observation: The Importance of Art in Medicine by Susan Ge
Perspective: Acts of Interpretation: A Philosophical Approach to Using Creative Arts in Medical Education by Arno Kumagai
To Create Better Doctors, Cultivate Their Creative Side by Tom Jacobs

Greetings! Hope you are well! To exercise our observational skills and have some fun…there are at least 10 pink flamingos now hidden within our site office…

Some are big
And some are small
And some may have
No legs at all.

Can you find them? If so, there’s a prize in store! 🙂

First one to email me the locations of all the flamingos wins!

Cheers!

Greetings!

Hope all is well! I know! I know! You’re all itching to hear how the 1st Annual Resiraptors vs. Precipitators Volleyball Tournament went down this past Saturday! Ok! Here’s the scoop from the most accurate source! 🙂

If you’ve talked with one of our Precipitators, you may have heard that they were victorious. This is not entirely accurate. The original tournament was set for the best out of 3 games. The Precipitators took the first game; however, the Resiraptors came back strong dominating the court with sheer power and finesse and easily won the next two.

We were elated and engaged in our celebratory Resiraptor Roar when Dr. Chow disrupted us and insisted that we play to 5 games. Who are we to argue with the Site Director? Dr. Chow wields enormous influence within the group and we felt inclined to appease him following our rehydration break.

The Resiraptors returned to the courts, possibly suffering from bloat, and subsequently lost the next two games. They were all exceptionally close matches that could have gone either way. Although the Precipitators have claimed #1, we are okay with #2 for now. Number 2 has far more substance to it and the second mouse always gets the cheese!

To acknowledge the Precipitators semi-victory, I’ll be dropping off our Henry Weinhard’s Award, best root beer this side of Manitoba, to each of your offices. Enjoy it…because next time you’re serving us! That’s right Dr. Dueck…now we got bad blood and we’re coming for you!

Wanna watch how it all went down? https://magis.to/3EK5gWMG?l=vsm&o=i&c=c

Celebrate National Coloring Book Day
August 2, 2016: A Day to Relax and Color
Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre Library
8:30 am – 3:30 pm

BC Cancer Agency and Fraser Health Library staff invite you to join us on Tuesday, August 2nd for a colouring break. Crayons, colouring pages and blank paper (for you DIYers) will be supplied; you simply need to bring yourself, and maybe a colouring buddy.

Please feel free to bring your own colouring books or to pick up a page for colouring later.  All visitors (even non-colourers) will be eligible for one of our door prizes! (and a cookie!)

We look forward to seeing you!

Anita (E-Rad), Michelle and Pamela

And because we are a library, here are a few articles!   (Thanks to Susan Morris, BCCA Library Technician, for the references.)

Sandmire DA, Gorham SR, Rankin NE, Grimm DR. The influence of art making on anxiety: A pilot study. Art Therapy. 2012 Jun 1;29(2):68-73.FHA

Rigby M, Taubert M. Art of Medicine: Colouring books for adults on the cancer ward. BMJ: British Medical Journal. 2016;352.

Curry NA, Kasser T. Can coloring mandalas reduce anxiety? Art Therapy. 2005 Jan 1;22(2):81-5.

Michelle Purdon – Librarian – Manager, Fraser Health Library Services
Anita Thompson – Library Technician – Fraser Health Library Services
Pamela Dent – Librarian – BC Cancer Agency
Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre Library
Phone: 604-851-4700 ext 646825

Following our R1 versus R2 volleyball match, each member of the losing team was asked to compose a limerick based on one of their field notes. R2 judges selected Dr. Rose Hsu’s as the winning entry!

There once was a man with a mole
Whose wife was a nagging old troll
1% lidocaine with epi
Simple interrupted, she said, “Let’s see”
Perfect margins, the mole left as a whole.

Love it! Congratulations Rose!!

Cheers,

Jacqueline

Greetings R1s!

Hope all is well! As you know, we’ve begun our coffee chat series! This is where I sit down with each team member to discuss your learning journey over the next two years. And I buy you coffee!! Does it get any better?

I recently met with our new R1, Dr. Jen Chen, who shared with me a website that she and her colleagues created at the University of Calgary. Drugs for Med Students Review Series offers visitors an array of “pharmacotherapeutic presentations, pharmacy resources, and pertinent drug information tailored for the needs of medical students.” To access Rx resources and apps, click here! I’m blown away by the creativity, visuals, and effort invested in this site. Fantastic work! You’ll find Drugs for Med Students listed on our Resources & Recommended Reading page.

Cheers,

Jacqueline

Greetings Residents & Preceptors!

BCCFP offers financial awards to residents in the UBC Family Practice Residency Program. These awards include:

• $5,000 BCCFP Resident Leadership Award to a UBC Family Medicine R2 graduating from the UBC Family Practice Residency Program.
• $1,500 Dr. Manoo and Jean Gurjar Award, BCCFP Family Medicine Resident Scholarship – to a male and a female resident in the UBC Family Practice Residency Program.

Apply here! Submissions are due in April of each year.

Thank you Dr. Windt for the reminder! 🙂

Cheers!

Jacqueline

Our ARHCC Cardiologist and Preceptor, Dr. Nader Elmayergi, produced a fantastic, humour-packed primer for our Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residents entering their Cardiology rotation!

We are printing copies of the book for our incoming R1 cohort. I’ll contact you as soon as they are ready for distribution. If you want to grab a peak at it now, you can download the primer on our Residents page.

We thank Dr. Elmayergi for his continued commitment to our Residents’ education and their understanding of the human heart.

Warmly,

Jacqueline