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The Canadian Stroke & Best Practices
Guidance on Stroke Best Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as one of the biggest public health crises of our time. Health systems are responding – and shifting their approaches to stroke care in light of personal precaution, physical isolation, and other community measures.
The Canadian Stroke and Best Practices recently updated their guidelines. Learn more here.
Living on Earth
“There is a lot of fear in this current story, and until recently, the stories that seemed to have the most power are those of bitterness, of how it had all gone wrong for us individually and collectively. It has been inspiring to watch how the best comes from the worst. How people are waking up in this time of global reckoning to the realization that our connections with each other are some of the most important things we have.
But stepping back. For all we’ve had to lament, we spend very little time relishing the single biggest thing that has ever gone right for us. That we are here in the first place, that we are alive at all. That we are still alive. A million and a half years after finding a box of matches, we haven’t totally burned the house down. Yet. The chances of being here are infinitesimal. Yet here we are. Perils and all.” ~ Oliver Jeffers
Enjoy more of Oliver’s observations on how our ‘beautiful, fragile drama of human civilization’ is evolving here.
Innovation and Change in Family Practice arising from COVID-19 Pandemic
UBC Faculty of Medicine CPD: COVID-19 Update: Innovation and Change in Family Practice arising from COVID-19 Pandemic
This upcoming webinar will include a panel of presenters and participants will be prompted to ask their questions in real time using webinar technology. We encourage you to send your questions in early.
Key Speakers: Dr. Jaron Easterbrook, Dr. Daniel Ngui, & Dr. Richard Welsh
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020
Broadcast starts: 7:00 PM PDT Online
Register here.
Innovation
If you’re not prepared to be wrong,
you’ll never come up with anything original.
~ Dr. Ken Robinson
Department of Family Practice: Special Educational Symposium
Join the Department of Family Practice for a Special Educational Symposium
Title: Building Community and Connection in Clinical Learning During COVID: Collectively Rethinking the Paradigm
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 8-9am (PST) via Zoom (virtual connection details to follow)
During this first meeting, we will engage participants in dialogue around the following questions related to the community-based clinical learning environment:
- What is the current state of clinical learning in the virtual environment?
- How might the clinical learning environment change in the future? (eg see the four curves figure)
- What is needed to support clinical learning now and in the near future?
- What resources can we draw on (human and other) and how do we collaborate on various topics and ideas?
Please contact Dr. Maria Michelle Hubinette at maria.hubinette@ubc.ca to learn more and participate.
Maria Michelle Hubinette MD CCFP MMEd FCFP (she/her/hers)
Clinical Professor
Scholar, Centre for Health Education Scholarship
UBC Faculty of Medicine | Department of Family Practice
maria.hubinette@ubc.ca
Connecting Medical Students & Physicians
The Western Canada COVID-19 Medical Student Response Team (WE-CAN COVID-19 MSRT) is a student-led, grassroots initiative with the primary objective of empowering medical students to support physicians and public health authorities in their efforts against COVID-19.
More on WE-CAN COVID-19 MSRT here.
CIHR Sex & Gender Science Chair
“We are pleased to announce Dr. Kate Shannon was awarded one of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Sex and Gender Science Chairs. Dr. Shannon is among 15 Canadian leaders across diverse disciplines who received CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chairs.
Dr. Kate Shannon, PhD, MPH (Global Health) is the Executive Director of the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, a Professor of Medicine and a Canada Research Chair in Gender Equity, Sexual Health and Global Policy at the University of British Columbia where she helps lead the university’s efforts on gender equity and sexual health care among underserviced and marginalized communities.”
Learn more about her work here.
NEW: Indigenous Patient-Led CPD
NEW: Indigenous Patient-Led CPD
We are an Elder-led group from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds working together to increase cultural safety and humility in rural BC by building relationships with First Nation communities and physician communities.
To learn more, visit Indigenous Patient-Led CPD.
To access the Cultural Safety Mindfulness During a Pandemic document, click here.
Quality Improvement Projects: Award Winners
Fantastic Quality of Improvement Project presentations this morning! Thank you to all who brought their a-game to the session. A special congratulations to:
Project Most Likely to Influence Practice Awards
Dr. Ashandeep Sandhu: Dyslipidemia in Diabetes
A chart review and discussion about meeting LDL targets in diabetic patients.
Dr. Senan Fernandes: HbA1c in the diabetic elderly: Are we too strict with our glycemic control?
Faculty Choice Award
Dr. Monika Wojtera: Penicillin Allergy Testing in the Family Medicine Clinic
Determining how many patients with a history of mild penicillin allergy could potentially benefit from an in-office graded oral provocation challenge with amoxicillin.
Family Medicine Residency Site: Abbotsford-Mission 