Family Medicine Residency Site: Abbotsford-Mission

“The Waverly has been under the intense scrutiny of Fraser Health for several months, particularly since December when the retirement residence was deemed ‘high risk.’ Since then no further admissions are allowed at the Young Road facility, and there are more than half a dozen empty beds.

The employee said she left because the demands on staff at the Waverly became too much to bear, leading to multiple employees quitting or going on stress leave.

The Waverly is a Retirement Concepts facility owned by a Chinese holding company, Anbang Insurance Group, which itself was taken over by the Chinese government in February 2018 after the company’s founder was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud.”

More on Former employee of Chilliwack senior care home calls working there ‘a horror show’ via Chilliwack Progress.

More on Founder of Chinese company with billions in B.C. assets gets 18 years for fraud: Anbang’s holdings, including the Bentall Centre and 20 retirement homes, now under Chinese government control via CBC.

Save the date for our upcoming Preceptor Retreat.
More info to follow in the coming weeks!

Our new Direct Observation tips poster has just been released. It was created by one of our Faculty Development Initiative Grant teams led by Drs. Fiona Manning & Brenda Hardie and designed by our brilliant Lindsay Gowland. You can also find this under our Preceptor Resources.

The hack disrupting clinical education.
Learn more here.

Our Assessment & Evaluation faculty have updated the Preceptor Field Note Guide. I’ve also posted this under Preceptor Resources.

2020 Medical Education Day for Health Professionals & 16th Webber Lecture

Date: Friday May 8^th, 2020
Time: 8:30am – 2:30pm (registration and breakfast from 8:30am – 9:00am)
Location: University Golf Club, 5185 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1X5
Theme: Teaching clinical reasoning across the continuum of medical training.
Webber Lecturer: Rose Hatala, MD, MSc

Click here to register.

A play inspired by conversations with families during a province wide study on pregnancy and childbirth in British Columbia

“Over the past 5 years, the Women’s Health Research Institute partnered with the Birth Place Lab and communities across British Columbia to collect information about their preferences and experiences during pregnancy and childbirth. In the Changing Childbirth in BC Study, people filled out an online survey or joined a focus group. They spoke of caring, supportive, and exceptional care, and also of discrimination, disrespect, and mistreatment that they encountered in the health care system.

The Changing Childbirth in BC Study invites you to a performance inspired by the thousands of stories families shared about their experiences of pregnancy and birth. Afterwards, join us for a Talk Back session! Bring your ideas on how to improve health care for parents and babies in BC.”

Learn more here to participate and attend.

“A neuroscientist and a storyteller walk into a bar. Well, it was more like a breakfast spot, but the pairing was unusual enough to be the start of a good joke. Earlier that week, IDEO’s Dav Rauch had given a presentation to a packed room of conference attendees. The neuroscientist, Allan Snyder, invited him to breakfast to chat about Dav’s presentation and share some of his own work. The research he explained over that breakfast led Dav to an epiphany that fundamentally changed his understanding of storytelling and the way he presents information.”

More on How to Be a Better Presenter by IDEO.

“’This centre will provide primary care services for people in our community who do not have a family doctor,’ Dr. Caroline Cook, the co-chair of the Abbotsford Division of Family Practice said Friday. ‘It will also provide urgent out-of-hospital care for everyone.’

The primary care centre is the 15th announced by the government. Twelve are already operating.

The Abbotsford Division of Family Practice, a group of local patients, UBC family practice residents and Fraser Health all had input in the design of the centre.”

More on New urgent care clinic in Abbotsford to be open weekends, evenings via The Abbotsford News.

Extremely proud of our UBC Abbotsford-Mission Family Practice Residents for contributing to this design process and being part of the solution.

Warmly,

Jacqueline

“If you look at history, innovation does not come just from giving people incentives;

it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.”

~ Author Steven Johnson