Family Medicine Residency Site: Abbotsford-Mission

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Save the date for the Sixth Annual Women’s Health Research Symposium! The event will be held virtually this year (via an online conference platform) and will be an opportunity to showcase the amazing women’s health research taking place across the province. The symposium is geared toward researchers, trainees, and other research and healthcare stakeholders. Please share this event with your networks. 

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Register at www.whri.org.

“An Abbotsford, B.C., care home has recorded five residents’ deaths in only one day as they struggle with a COVID-19 outbreak.

Tabor Home in Abbotsford now has 122 residents and staff who have tested positive for the virus with 30 who have tested negative.

In total, 16 residents have died from COVID-19.

Executive director Dan Levitt said staff and residents are heartbroken at the recent outbreak and deaths. He added that last year they lost five residents in the whole month of November, compared to the five in just one day during this pandemic.”

More on 5 residents of Abbotsford B.C. care home die in just one day from COVID-19 via GlobalNews.

Ha! Well…
First, you’re so welcome!
Second, Jeremy Goldberg once said, “Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that is why life is hard.” 😉

Have a great weekend!

Jacqueline

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“The links between health and climate change are undeniable. 120 world-leading experts, including authors from 38 academic institutions and UN agencies spanning every continent have looked at more than 40 indicators for the 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. 

Join us online on 3rd December at 2pm GMT to discover new findings.

Climate change is threatening the health of people around the world. It is no longer a future problem. Our food stocks are compromised, our land is burning, our air is polluted, and the hospitals and clinics we depend on are under increasing pressure. Yet, responding to climate change offers a brighter future for global health. Cleaner skies, healthier diets, and more liveable cities.

Launching amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, we will reveal and explore the latest global health profile of climate change in the context of this unprecedented and challenging moment in time. On the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, and as we look ahead to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP26, we will discuss the consequences of delayed action for public health, and the health, economic and societal benefits of a robust and rapid response.”

Register and check out the speakers and guests here.

“Nearly a third of the nurses who’ve died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide. A recent report from the largest nurses’ union in the country revealed the disproportionate number of deaths. It’s a jarring statistic researchers are working to understand and a tragedy families across the US and around the world are living with every day. Jollene Levid feels it every morning, when she combs through health-care workers’ obituaries and keeps finding Filipino names. She sees her family in their faces — so many senseless deaths.

‘People always talk about it as numbers, but then when so many of the folks you know have died, and it wasn’t because they weren’t wearing a mask, it wasn’t because they decided to eat at a restaurant. They were literally trying to keep someone alive and they caught it,’ Levid says.”

Covid-19 is taking a devastating toll on Filipino American nurses via CNN.

“Stanford Medicine X, the world’s most-discussed academic health care conference returns! Join us December 3, 2020 for Medicine X | CHANGE.

At Medicine X | CHANGE we will meet the innovators who are disrupting health care throughout the globe. We will see the emerging technologies of today and learn how they will impact the health care we deliver and receive tomorrow.We will explore the drivers of change through organizational leadership and creative collaboration outside of health care’s traditional silos. 

We will be inspired by moonshot thinking and learn how to grow pockets of excellence and innovation to large-scale change. We will experience empathy and compassion. We will gain an understanding of the problems that matter most in health care.

Be ready to use what you learn at Medicine X to create a shared vision of collaborative change and participatory medicine of tomorrow.”

I highly recommend it! I’ve attended this conference since 2017 and presented with Dr. Chow in 2018 on coaching in medical education. What makes the event so unique is the inclusion and integration of the patient’s voice. The patient perspective and experience are often absent in these medical education conferences and this one specifically provides a platform for patients to discuss and describe the innovations that they have contributed to as well as how our healthcare system can be better for all.

Registration is FREE!