Welcome to the Team
We have condensed our popular 3-days intensive course into 1-day virtual conference for you to participate in the safety and comfort of your own home or office. Each presentation will last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Topics are tailored for primary care providers who work with elderly patients. Participants will also have the opportunity to express their learning needs on each topic prior to the event. Check out the agenda here!
“According to the Equity Action Lab Implementation Guide, an Equity Action Lab is ‘a flexible and adaptable model that uses a set of activities to bring together a diverse group of community stakeholders to take action in pursuit of equity and community improvement.’ The model helps stakeholders act on a complex (adaptive) health topic that does not yet have a known fix or remedy. It requires multiple groups or sectors to work together to test and learn their way into solutions.
IHI based the model on an approach employed by IHI’s Strategic Partner, Community Solutions, that used design thinking and ‘switch thinking’ to quickly get to action and results. As part of our efforts as 100 Million Healthier Lives convener, IHI incorporated improvement science, the psychology of change, systems thinking, co-designing with people with lived experience, and effective approaches for tackling adaptive challenges to create the Equity Action Lab. Most importantly, we tested and refined methods for co-designing solutions with context experts.”
Testing New Ways to Put Equity Into Action via Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
There’s a new tuition-free course with EdX on Global Health Information to Improve Quality of Care offered by MIT. Learn how to design health information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for the developing world.
About the course: Disease has no respect for country borders and increased global travel has fuelled the spread of infectious disease, as evidenced by the Ebola virus epidemic. Chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, initially confined to the developed world, now exist side by side with malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Global warming is widening the endemicity of vector-borne diseases.
In this course, we will explore ways to leverage information technology to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. Technology is a driving force that sweeps across nations even faster than disease and with the spread of mobile phones, which bring computational power and data to our fingertips, new paradigms in tracking and battling disease have been discovered.
The course begins February 16th! Register here.
There’s a new tuition-free course with EdX on AnatomyX: Musculoskeletal Cases. Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.
About this course: Musculoskeletal AnatomyX invites students to join medical and basic science faculty at Harvard Medical School (HMS) to learn about musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in clinical practice.
For each case, students visit the HMS Clinical Skills Center to observe the initial patient encounter and physical examination by an orthopedic surgeon. Following the patient encounter, students complete the interactive gross anatomy, histology and radiology learning sessions essential for understanding the case. The anatomy learning sessions include observing actual dissections in the Harvard Medical School anatomy laboratories revealing and explaining the human anatomy relevant for each clinical case.
The course began today but I’m sure you can grab a seat now! Register here.
Providing training in quality improvement and patient safety (QIPS) is an important consideration for all of our residency programs. This has been fortified by its specific inclusion in the new accreditation standards. PGME’s aim is to provide a foundational QIPS curriculum to supplement what already exists and for the curriculum to be integrated into each residency program as needed.
Learn more here.
Have a great weekend!
Jacqueline
The Office of Faculty Development and the Centre for Health Education Scholarship are pleased to co-facilitate the CAME Webinar Series at UBC. Designed to bring practical, evidence and experience-based advice to Canadian health educators, the webinars offer the opportunity to engage online with an expert and with colleagues in a live discussion on a key topic in health professions education.
*Please note that while these sessions are free to attend, registration is required. See registration link below.
Using Feedback and Coaching to Support Learner Wellness
Presenter: Dr. Joan Sargeant, Dalhousie University
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Time: 12:00 to 1:00pm PST
You need to be affiliated with UBC to register. Click here to register.
If you have any questions, please contact Faculty Development.
“Many First Nations communities in B.C. are on lockdown to reduce transmission of COVID-19, which has exacerbated inequitable access to health care supplies and services, ranging from personal protective equipment and medications to laboratory services such as COVID-19 testing and diagnostics for other medical conditions.
‘Based on the isolated location of our community and the needs of our residents, drone transport may enhance our access to COVID-19 testing and medication without traveling and endangering other members of our community,’ says Chief Robert Michell of the Stellat’en First Nation, located about 100 kilometres west of Prince George. ‘The futuristic potential of this initiative is exciting. With drone technology, there is so much you can do.'”
More here UBC receives $750K TD Ready Challenge grant to deliver health care supplies by drone to remote B.C. via UBC Medicine.
Hi & Welcome!
We’re the Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residency Team based out of Abbotsford and Mission, British Columbia, Canada. We’re passionate about medicine, your educational journey, and delivering the best care to our community. We know you have several choices ahead and we’re here to help you in making the right decision for your future. Learn more about us here!
Family Medicine Residency Site: Abbotsford-Mission 