Dr. Nathalie Martinek developed “a #MedEd conversation tool to facilitate a safe & respectful team culture.” She’s looking for input on the guide’s development. Reach out to her at @NatsforDocs if you have any suggestions! The newest revision is above!
The Nobel Prize 2019
“Our story is really one of trying to generate knowledge and understand how things work.”
Listen to Dr. Kaelin’s interview this morning on winning the Nobel Prize with his colleagues Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza. Read more on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
#NobelPrize #Medicine
Clinical Scholar Program
The UBC Clinician Scholar Program is one of seven across Canada.
The Clinician Scholar Program (CSP) offers part-time positions for family physicians in family practice scholarship. These third-year residency positions are part of the Postgraduate Program of the UBC Faculty of Medicine.
Each cohort begins the program on July 1st of the calendar year.
Objectives
- To engage practicing family physicians in conducting scholarly work
- To contribute to the knowledge base of family practice and primary health care
- To cultivate scholarship within family medicine
- To support the development and enhancement of core scholarship skills
- To foster innovative, interdisciplinary, community-based scholarship
Timeframe and Funding
Applicants are encouraged to plan a two-year timeframe for completion of the program. Approximately $60,000 per successful candidate is available over two years.
AMEE Webinar Series
The forthcoming webinar in partnership with the AMEE CPD Committee will be presented by David Wiljer:
“Involving patients, families and new perspectives into CPD”
Monday, October 7, 2019
4:00 (2pm) GMT +1 Hour
Register here!
As of 2019 the AMEE webinar series will be entirely free. You can access the webinars by joining here when the webinar begins. Due to limited space it is advisable to join on time as AMEE cannot guarantee entry to the webinars.
This Webinar will explore approaches and opportunities for involving patients and their families into Continuing Professional Development.
We will explore practical issues around recruitment, training of faculty, various concerns from stakeholders, and payment in order to address barriers and ensure the successful and meaningful involvement of patients and their families in CPD.
The Webinar is intended for CPD professionals, administrators, researchers, learners and patients and families who are interested in advancing the field.
Inclusive Campus
“I think I’ve been very blessed because though I’ve never had two of my own arms, it’s never stopped me from being able to teach someone else how to make better use of their own.”
~ Veronica Brooks, Occupational Therapist
Yesterday I had the privilege to listen to the passions and interests of our UBC CHES scholar group. One of the presentations given by our UBC Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy team focused on promoting inclusivity and accessibility within our healthcare professions and campus community. I encourage you to learn more about their efforts and energy being invested in mentorship, system navigation, workshops, and educational strategies. Visit UBC’s Inclusive Campus!
Warm regards,
Jacqueline
CHES: Celebration of Scholarship & Articles of Interest
Just a heads up that we have our UBC CHES Celebration of Scholarship tomorrow where the Centre for Heath Education Scholarship members have the opportunity to share their work with the broader community! Hope to see you there!
In addition, CHES recently distributed their latest collection of medical education article abstracts to members. Check it out! (The two that caught my eye were #5 Performing Under Pressure: Varsity Athletes Excel in Medical School; and, #9 The utility of mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education: A BEME review)
If you would like to nominate an article for future inclusion or have any questions, please email ches.communications@ubc.ca.
Warm regards,
Jacqueline
#UBC #CHES #MedicalEducation
Orange Shirt Day
“September 30 is an annual day to recognize and raise awareness about the residential school system in Canada, join together in the spirit of reconciliation, and honour the experiences of Indigenous Peoples. Between the late 1800s and 1996, more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children attended Indian residential schools – Orange Shirt Day commemorates this legacy.”
The Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC is open from 10-4 today and welcomes anyone looking to rest. Cultural support from Indian Residential School Survivors Society will also be available all day for anyone in need. Learn more here.
Contraception
Building a Family Tree
“Yaniv Erlich is fascinated by the connection between DNA and data. As a professor and researcher at Columbia University and as CSO of MyHeritage.com, he has performed foundational work in genetic privacy and large-scale studies of crowd-sourced genomic data. Dubbed by the journal Nature as the ‘Genome Hacker,’ he and his team discovered a privacy loophole enabling re-identification of allegedly anonymous male research participants using just internet searches and their Y chromosome. Later, he discovered that 60% of all US individuals with European descent can be identified by forensic genetics using open genetic genealogy databases, which was dubbed by Science magazine as one of the top 10 breakthroughs of 2018. He is also responsible for the construction of the world’s largest family tree comprising 13 million people, as well as the development of the website DNA.land, which has compiled the genotypes of more than 150,000 donors, and has also worked to discover the genetic bases for several conditions in Israeli families.”
#TEDMED #YanivErlich #GenomicData
Simulation Game: RETAIN
“The Retain Game originated from a vision to provide this training environment with a focus on neonatal resuscitation out of the University of Alberta Hospital & Royal Alexandra Hospital Edmonton. The RETAIN team designed the educational game platform ‘RETAIN’ (Resuscitation TrAINing for Healthcare Professionals) to train healthcare professionals in neonatal resuscitation in a cost-friendly and accessible way. The RETAIN platform (RETAIN Labs Medical Inc., Edmonton, Canada) consists of a board game and a computer game, as tools that complement the physical simulation-based education to improve knowledge retention during neonatal resuscitation in the delivery room.”
More on Canadian Simulation Educators Create RETAIN Board Game to Train Neonatal Resuscitation via Healthy Simulation.
The Research: RETAIN: A Board Game That Improves Neonatal Resuscitation Knowledge Retention (2019) by Cutumisu et al. via Frontiers in Paediatrics.
Play Retain Game.
#Gamification #Simulation #PlayToLearn
Family Medicine Residency Site: Abbotsford-Mission 