Conversation with your Colleagues about Improving Access to Community Services

You are invited to explore strategies with your colleagues for improving access to community services, and the related referral process with Island Health. In the second half of the evening, Dr. Ben Williams and Shelly McKenzie will join the conversation.

January 17, 2017, 6:00-9:00pm
Eagle Crest Golf Club, Qualicum Beach
Dinner will be served.

The event is open to all Division members and will include sessional payments.  For dietary requirements/requests please contact our Administrative Assistant, Amber Hanscomb.

2017 Rural Locum Forum: Supporting rural – our colleagues + communities

On February 25, 2017 the Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice, Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc), and UBC CPD are co-hosting the 2017 Rural Locum Forum: Supporting rural – our colleagues + communities. Held in Nanaimo, this one-day course is aimed at rural locums and GPs, residents, and physicians interested in becoming rural locums. The course involves a mix of rural-based presentations, small group learning, experience sharing, and clinical case-based sessions. Event highlights include:

• Pre-conference workshops including HOUSE (Ultrasound), The CARE Course, Neonatal Resuscitation Course (NRP), CASTED, ACLS, and BLS.
• Acute pulmonary edema.
• Rural cases provided by the audience.
• Locum billing.
• ER cases.
• Providing culturally sensitive care to indigenous communities.

Register for the Rural Locum Forum. Seating is limited.

NRGH Heart Function Clinic

 Please download the updated Heart Function clinic referral form, along with a memorandum and Heart Function Stats. These documents are also available on the members' only web portal for the Oceanside Division of Family Practice under IH Clinical Announcements and IH Forms.

NRGH Heart Function Clinic Memo
Heart Function Clinic Referral
Heart Function Clinic Stats

Dr. Reynolds Clinic

Protea Clinic and Dr. Swart are happy to announce that endocrinologist Dr. Reynolds will be returning to perform another clinic on March 13, 2017.  Please fax all referrals directly to Protea Clinic at 250-752-3519.  Patients will be booked in and referrals forwarded to Dr.Reynolds beforehand.

​Independent Respiratory Services has been working out of Protea Clinic for several months, providing advice and testing for patients with COPD, sleep apnea, etc.  This is an excellent service that allows patients to be assessed in the Oceanside area.

Network, Recruit, and Retain!

Join the Oceanside Division of Family Practice for an interactive evening to find out what is happening in the areas of recruitment and retention - we know that for family physicians, one of your greatest areas of concern is how we can get - and keep - our area's healthcare providers.  We will talk about the residency program, practice coverage, area locums, and get the opportunity to meet some of Oceanside's newest physicians - many of whom you may not already know! 

Join us in the Beach Club's lovely Sand Dollar Room for dinner, updates on Recruitment and Retention and the Perfect Storm group, and get a chance to "Speed-Date" our newest healthcare providers. 

Thu, 2 February 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The Beach Club Resort, Parksville

The Oceanside Division of Family Practice is looking for physician leads and interested members to form a working group to lead the Division's activities and efforts around recruitment and retention - without members providing their input and leadership, there is little that can be done to make improvements in these areas - be a part of the solution!

A 2 hour sessional fee is payable for attendance to this event.  As at the AGM, there will be a door prize up for grabs. 

Please RSVP via the Event invite or email Amber Hanscomb to be added!

Oceanside Locums

We have a number of locums working in the Oceanside area, and they are booking up for 2017!  Please submit your locum requests to Sharon Todd to ensure you get coverage for your practice ASAP.

You can check out the current locum listings on our website!

Developing tools to support primary care providers for STI Partner Notification

 You are invited to participate in a survey that will explore your views on partner notification for reportable bacterial STI in order to develop a toolkit aimed at Family Physicians. This survey is conducted with funding from the PHSA (Provincial Health Services Authority)/DBC (Doctors of BC), and organized through the BC Centre for Disease Control.

Objective: The goals of this project are to:

    1. Understand the current practice of partner notification by primary care providers.
    2. Identify opportunities to better support primary care providers to perform partner notification, including how to connect with public health resources.
    3. Create a toolkit to support primary care providers to perform partner notification, including the rationale for partner notification and key messages on which to counsel.
Time Commitment: The survey will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.

Survey Participation: The survey will be housed on the UBC-hosted FluidSurveys platform. Your email address will not be linked to your responses and the results will be anonymous.
Remuneration: Compensation will be at the standard sessional rate of $440.05 per 3.5 hours. The survey is expected to take 30 minutes with an expected compensation of $62.86. Please fill out the information at the end of the survey. This information will not be linked to the survey questions.

Maximum Number of Participants: Participation will be capped at 245 respondents after which the survey will be closed.

To take the survey, please follow this link:  survey.ubc.ca/s/bc-sti-survey/

14th Annual Pediatric Emergency Medicine Update & APLS

Registration is now open for the popular annual conference, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Update, in downtown Vancouver!
There is also a one day APLS (Advanced Pediatric Life Support) hands-on simulation course offered on Thu, May 4 at BC Children’s Hospital.

Please feel free to distribute the information below to those who might be interested in this conference!

14th Annual Pediatric Emergency Medicine Update & APLS
 

May 4: APLS & May 5-6 (Fri-Sat) |UBC Robson Square| Vancouver BC
Target audience: Pediatricians, emergency physicians, family physicians, allied health professionals & residents
Up to 12.0 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1 credits

Register: http://www.eply.com/PediatricER2017

Highlights:

• 2017 Theme: Managing the Complex Child in the ED
• Clinically relevant information on the latest trends in pediatric emergency medicine
• Topics include: rashes of systemic disease, oncological emergencies, congenital heart disease, abdominal pain, laceration repairs and more!

Reminder

Automated Payments:

Direct Deposit Forms sent out on December 28 need to be sent back to Amber Hanscomb for electronic payments to be enabled.

Residential Care:

​Residential Care Initiative Physician Agreements were sent out on January 3 to participating physicians.  Please do complete the contract and return it to Amber as soon as possible!

Snaw-Naw-As Health Centre

We have just passed the one year mark since starting physician services at the Snaw-Naw-As Health Centre in Nanoose.  It is going quite well, with a group of four GP’s rotating through the centre each week, providing sessionally funded care to Snaw-Naw-As members for two sessions each week. In addition, we have family medicine residents providing care for one or two days each week as well as a NP one day each week. This is in the context of a multidisciplinary team that provides further support to the community.

As we move forward this year, I am hoping that we can build a stronger relationship between the Snaw-Naw-As Nation and the Oceanside Division of Family Practice and the Oceanside Health Centre. Currently, almost all community members seek after hours care at the NRGH ED. My hope is that the Oceanside Health Centre can become their primary after hours centre, when appropriate. In addition, having the members aware of the other services available through the Oceanside Health Centre would be of benefit.

I would like to see a physician from the Oceanside area brought into our physician group to begin building this relationship. We will likely be having one of our four physicians leaving the group to start up another clinic on the Snuneymuxw Nation within the next couple of months.

Are you aware of any physicians within the Oceanside community that may be interested or would you like to meet to discuss further? Also, if you have any suggestions or thoughts on how to build a relationship between these communities, they would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you. I hope everyone had a great weekend and a good start to 2017.

Dr. D. Randal Mason
Physician Lead Snaw-Naw-As Health Centre
Family Physician
250-618-9328
DrMason@Live.ca

Question: “Can I get this CT done faster somewhere else?”

As the result of a one-year project initiated by Primary Care Informatics Committee (PCI) in partnership with Island Health, physicians can now know the duration of time patients wait for medical imaging at each site and for each modality on Vancouver Island.  This data is available from their offices after a single login.  As with all PCI work, it is intended to improve access to information pertinent for patient care in the community. The result is a first for British Columbia.  This was possible through a collaborative effort between members of Medical Imaging, Communications and Medical Quality Improvement departments who immediately saw value in the project and worked enthusiastically to make it a reality.   

Use this link to access VIHA imaging wait times

You will need the same username and password as for PowerChart*.

The link is also available through PCI web site and Pathways for those in Victoria/Saanich. 

Link: https://services.viha.ca/sites/MIWaitTimes/SitePages/Medical_Imaging_Wait_Times.aspx

Questions?  Email Dr. Ian Bekker
*PowerChart Only privileges are available from Lesa Boyko, Credentialing_Office@viha.ca,  1-250-755-7691 ex.53005.        *Password resets: (250) 370-8777

Check out the PCI web site for other tips on getting more access to patient information!

Divisions in the News

See what is going on in other divisions around BC:

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