GPSC Patient Medical Home Assessment

January 22, 2018 - Beach Club Resort, Parksville

Please join us on January 22 for a dinner and evening with our PSP team to engage with the Patient Medical Home Assessment tool. This assessment will help you determine your readiness for PMH coming to Oceanside.

Come spend an evening with your peers, gain insights into your practice journey, and support discussions around the best strategies that fit our local and unique journey towards the Patient Medical Home.

Required for this session is a tablet or laptop to complete the survey as it is an online tool. Please bring one with you.
It's an opportunity to do this as a group and engage in conversation.

Please RSVP to Annie Gaudette by January 19, 2018

Early career choices: Locum vs. office-based family practice

Dear physician/resident,

Are you interested in learning about the current trend of establishing practice for new and established family physicians?

We are second year family residents from the Vancouver Fraser program. We are inviting you to participate in this online survey to help us understand the reasons behind choosing to establish an office based family practice vs. other types of practice. Given the current shortage of family physicians that are accepting patients, we hope to gain an insight into what drives the decision to establish an office based family practice.

This online survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes of your time. Participation in this study is voluntary and the responses are strictly confidential. All participants are eligible for a prize draw (three $20 Starbucks gift certificates) by entering their emails after finishing the survey. Your email will not be linked to your responses.

We have attached a consent form. If you have any questions please do not hesitate in contacting us at g.perezflores@alumni.ubc.ca or jenn.b.wang@alumni.ubc.ca.

You can access the survey by clicking on this link: https://survey.ubc.ca/surveys/37-16f39b106c1b826699e89121634/early-career-choices/

Thank you for your participation.

Dr. Jennifer Wang
PGY2 Family Medicine
University of British Columbia

Dr. Guillermina Perez-Flores
PGY2 Family Medicine
University of British Columbia

Opthalmology Update for Family Physicians

https://ubccpd.ca/course/FPophthal17
Jan 27 (Sat) | Royal Columbian Hospital | New Westminster BC
Target audience: family physicians, residents & students
Up to 6.25 Mainpro+ credits
Register: https://www.eply.com/FPophthal17

This one day course offers family physicians an opportunity to review and update their ophthalmology knowledge and skills through active learning. Participants will gain confidence with ophthalmic conditions commonly encountered in their practice, through a series of lectures and hands-on workshops facilitated by local ophthalmologists.

Highlights:

• Enthusiastic team of local ophthalmologists will help participants update their ophthalmology skills for general practice
• Practical, fully equipped, hands-on workshops, including:
• Slit lamp examination and tonometry
• Direct ophthalmoscopy
• Examining eyes in general practice
• Didactic topics include:
• Diabetic eye disease
• Pediatric ophthalmology  - what not to miss
• Low vision & driving
• Red eye
• Glaucoma

Pathways Online Specialist Referral Rollout

The Pathways online specialist system is live and so far, the feedback has been that you love it!  Pathways is an online resource that allows GPs and their office staff to quickly access current and accurate referral information, including wait times and areas of expertise, for specialists and specialty clinics. In addition, Pathways makes available hundreds of patient and physician resources that are categorized and searchable.

In January, Sharon Todd and Janice Schmidt, our Pathways Administrator, will be visiting medical offices and bringing along access keys to get you logged on and using this fantastic physician resource.  If you haven't already been visited, you can send a quick note to Sharon to ensure you get your access sorted out and all of your questions answered by our resident expert, Janice.  Click here if you want to know more about Pathways and what it will offer your medical practice in the meantime!

PMH Implementation Plan Draft Available

Thank-you to all who came out last fall to have your say with regard to Patient Medical Home in Oceanside. From our successful PMH engagements at that time, we have an implementation draft that will see us through this next phase of work towards making PMH a reality in Oceanside. Please have a read of attached implementation and consider joining us on February 7th at 6:30 pm at OHC to talk about next steps.  Invites will be emailed out shortly!

Have a look at our Current Implementation Plan!

RCI CME Thank You!

A big thanks to the great group that came out for the 2 polypharmacy sessions in November. With the superb facilitation skills of Drs. Keith White, Chris Rauscher and Suzanne Voetmann, there was plenty of engaging and thoughtful dialogue between physicians, residential care facility staff and pharmacists. For those who were interested in attending but missed the sessions, the handouts and presentations are available online at our website in the CME section. Click here to access.  We look forward to more great learning and intra and inter-professional collaborations in the near future!

Locums

We currently the following locum requests outstanding;

Dr. David Owen, Weld Street Clinic,  2 weeks in July, 2018 

Dr. Mirka Owen, Parksville Medical Clinic, 2 weeks in July, 2018 

contact Sharon Todd

Please do contact Sharon Todd (250-937-0611) if you have any locum requests, including those for holidays for the summer - get them in early!

15th Annual Pediatric Emergency Medicine Update

The Division of Emergency Medicine at BC Children’s Hospital and UBC CPD will be presenting the upcoming 15th Annual Pediatric Emergency Medicine Update event  taking place May 4 – 5, 2018 in Vancouver, BC.

The event will highlight the latest trends in the practice of pediatric emergency medicine in urban and rural setting. In addition, the popular hands-on APLS course is also being offered as part of this event on May 3rd. (*More information below)

15th Annual Pediatric Emergency Medicine Update
http://ubccpd.ca/course/PedER2018
May 4-5 (Fri-Sat) |UBC Robson Square| Vancouver BC
Target audience: pediatricians, emergency physicians, family physicians, allied health professionals & residents
Up to 12.5 MOC Section 1 credits/ Mainpro+
Program Content: https://ubccpd.ca/course/PedER2018#agenda
Register: http://www.eply.com/PedER2018
Highlights:

• New and Improved: Practice Altering Articles | Dr. Ran Goldman
• Greatest Hits: Update on Pediatric Trauma | Dr. Gen Ernst
• At a Loss: Managing the Child with an Eating Disorder | Dr. Tara Tandan
• Baby Driver: Pediatric Transport Considerations | Dr. Arthur Cogswell

Pre-conference course:
APLS: Simulator-Mediated Advanced Pediatric Life Support Course
https://ubccpd.ca/course/PedER2018#pre_post
May 3 (Thu)
Requirement: successful previous completion of PALS or APLS course suggested. Only for physicians who are routinely involved in the care of critically ill or injured children.
Up to 7.5 MOC Section 3 credits or 15.0 Mainpro+ credits (2cr/hr)
Max: 24 participants

Divisions Dispatch

View the latest Divisions Dispatch here

Inside the December 15, 2017 issue

Read this issue

1. Effective January 1, 2018: Changes to GPSC incentive fees
2. GPSC news: New GPSC co-chair and member, 2018 GPSC meeting schedule, November meeting summary
3. Doctors of BC president responds to Times Colonist editorial on doctor shortage
4. Thompson Region letter to editor details division recruitment efforts
5. Division support for physician retirement
6. Local divisions support physicians in improving access to care for transgender patients
7. Telehealth improving access to child and youth mental health services on Vancouver Island
8. Residential care: Early results show improved access to care
9. Polypharmacy Risk Reduction initiative - residential care phase near completion
10. Free teamwork and communication action series presented by BCPSQC
11. Registration open for JCC pre-forum event on February 21
12. GST charges for residential care and inpatient care payments made to physicians
13. Business/non-profit matchmaker provides free service to support board diversification
14. Subscribe to Patients as Partners monthly bulletin
15. New report: Monitoring Seniors' Services 2017
16. Partner publications
17. Divisions in the News

GPSC Summary

Please find the November GPSC meeting summary here. 

As always, the GPSC would like to hear from you. If you have any comments or questions, please connect with your GPSC/Community Liaison or through gpsc@doctorsofbc.ca.

Divisions in the News

See what is going on in other divisions around BC:

https://www.divisionsbc.ca/provincial/inthenews