Retirement & Transition Survey

We need your anonymized input!  

With quite a few Physician retirements coming up in Oceanside, it would help us at the Oceanside Division of Family Practice if the majority of practicing family physicians would give tehir input on this quick, under 5 minute survey on retirement and transition planning. 

If you have not already done so, please contribute your input so that we may get the best possible picture of the upcoming physician retirement outlook for Oceanside.  THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR INPUT!

COMPLETE THE SURVEY 

Oceanside Welcomes PCH/PMH Project Manager

Tina Biello is very excited to be on board as the Project Manager for the Oceanside Division of Family Practice. She has had many years sworking in various health care situations, and she worked for 5 years setting up and managing the First Link Program for North/Central Vancouver Island for the Alzheimer Society of BC. Her latest project was working with Providence Health and the BC Seniors Advocate’s Office, launching a province wide survey for residents who live in long term care.  Tina managed the Vancouver Island and Northern Health portion of this survey.  She has lived in Nanoose Bay for 10 years and loves the area. On another note, she is also the current Poet Laureate of Nanaimo and is a published author.  Welcome, Tina!  

St Paul's Emergency Medicine Conference

Register for the 15th Annual St. Paul’s Emergency Medicine conference in Whistler Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2017 in beautiful Whistler, British Columbia!

Sep 28-Oct 1 (Thu-Sun), Whistler Conference Centre, Whistler BC

Target audience: emergency physicians, family physicians, rural physicians, residents & students, emergency nurses, paramedics, any others providing emergency care
Up to 18.0 Mainpro+/MOC Section 1

Highlights:

• Timely and clinically relevant updates on Emergency Medicine in both rural and urban centres
• Selection of case-based and hands-on workshops on Saturday – see below
• Pre-conference workshops in Vancouver AND Whistler – EDE1, EDE2, SEMP (Vancouver); CAEP AIME Roadshow, CASTED Emergency, The SHOCK Course (Whistler)
• Conference break each day for activities with family
• Social Events: Sep 28 Welcome Reception, Whistler Conference Centre; Sep 29 Cocktail Reception with the Hairfarmers, Garibaldi Lift Company (GLC)

Register: https://www.eply.com/sphemerg-2017

Accommodation:
Westin Whistler Resort and Spa, 4090 Whistler Way, Whistler  British Columbia  V0N 1B4
http://www.westinwhistler.com
Discount room rates start at $210/night + taxes. Rates do not include parking. Group Code: “St. Paul’s Emergency Medicine”. Group rate available until Aug 28, 2017.

Reservations
PH: 1-866-412-2864
EM: reservations@westinwhistler.com
Online: https://tinyurl.com/sph2017reservations

Pre-Conference Workshop Offerings:

• EDE1 (offered TWICE: Sep 25 OR Sep 26), VANCOUVER – register through edecourse.com
• EDE2 (offered TWICE: Sep 26 OR Sep 27), NORTH VANCOUVER – add your name to the waitlist with your conference registration
• CASTED Emergency, Sep 27 & 28, WHISTLER – register through casted.ca/schedule
• CAEP AIME Roadshow (offered TWICE: Sep 27 OR Sep 28), WHISTLER – register with your conference registration
• SEMP: Simulated Emergency Medicine Procedures, Sep 27, VANCOUVER – register with your conference registration
• The SHOCK Course, Sep 28, WHISTLER – register with your conference registration

Keynote Lectures:
• Annual Literature Review, Grant Innes, University of Calgary
• Trauma, Kenji Inaba, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
• HIV Treatment as Prevention: A Made in BC Strategy to End the AIDS Pandemic, Julio Montaner, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
• It’s A Job That’s Easy to Love/Hate, Robert Orman, St Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR

University of Victoria Community Based Programs

Here is the upcoming Fall 2017 schedule for UVic's six session Community based programs;

1) Chronic Conditions(CC),

2) Chronic Pain (CP),

3) Diabetes (D) and

4) Cancer, Thriving & Surviving (CTS) 

There may be a possibility of adding more as we get closer to September.

You may also be interested in our two newest programs (attached) for your information, Online Chronic Conditions and Self-Management Health Coach.

Please remember that you may register or obtain more information either by going  to our website www.selfmanagementbc.ca and clicking on the map of Vancouver Island, where you will find a listing of all the workshops you can register for. OR call us, toll free, at 1-866-902-3767. You may leave a Voice Mail anytime (i.e. 24 hours) however, there is a “real” person available  from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.

Vancouver Island (Listed in Date Order)
Location Dates and Times

Comox Valley Nursing Centre
615 10th Street
Courtenay, V9N 1R2
Mondays
Jul 10 - Aug 21
1:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Mental Health Building

7070 Shorncliffe Avenue
Port Hardy, V0N 2P0
Wednesdays
Aug 23 - Sep 27
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Community Health Services (formerly IHN)

4711A Elizabeth Street
Port Alberni, V9Y 6M1
Fridays
Sep 08 - Oct 13
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Esquimalt Westshore Health Unit

#102- 940 Goldstream Avenue
Victoria, V9B 2Y4
Tuesdays
Sep 12 - Oct 17
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
 

Hillside Seniors Health Centre - Yakimovich Wellness Centre
1454 Hillside Avenue
Victoria, V8T 2B7
Wednesdays
Sep 20 - Oct 25
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
 

Greater Victoria public Library-Oak Bay Branch
1442 Monterey Avenue
Victoria, V8S 4W1
Wednesdays
Sep 20 - Oct 25
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
 

Community Health Services (formerly IHN)
4711A Elizabeth Street
Port Alberni, V9Y 6M1
Wednesdays
Sep 20 - Oct 25
1:30 PM to 4:00 PM
 

SHOAL Activity Centre
10030 Resthaven Drive
Sidney, V8L 3G4
Tuesdays
Oct 10 - Nov 14
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
 

SEAPARC Leisure Complex
2168 Phillips Road
Sooke, V9Z 0Y3
Thursdays
Oct 12 - Nov 16
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
 

Cook Street Village Activity Centre
1-380 Cook Street
Victoria, V8V 3X7
Tuesdays
Oct 17 - Nov 21
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
 

Greater Victoria Public Library - Central Branch
735 Broughton Street
Victoria, V8W 3H2
Sundays
Oct 22 - Nov 26
1:30 PM to 4:00 PM
 

Qualicum Commons
744 Primrose Street
Qualicum Beach, V9K 1S7
Thursdays
Oct 26 - Nov 30
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
 

Comox Valley Nursing Centre
615 10th Street
Courtenay, V9N 1R2
Mondays
Oct 30 - Dec 11
1:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Thank you all for your interest and we are sincerely looking forward to being able to provide some assistance in your life’s journey.

Mark V. Davies| SENIOR COORDINATOR
Self-Management Programs
Toll Free: 1-866-902-3767 Direct: 604-940-3580 Fax: 604-940-2099

Island Health Home Monitoring Service

Island Health’s Home Health Monitoring (HHM) Service is embarking on innovative care modalities to improve the health and outcomes for people living with multiple chronic conditions or who are in palliative care.

We are looking for general practitioners who might be interested in participating in the HHM Innovation Project development.

As well as participating in protocol development, we are looking for your input on how the HHM Service can align with and support you in delivering chronic disease management.

Please download the information sheet for more info.

Trial Patient Experience Tool in Oceanside

Oceanside Family Practitioners,

Our Division has been offered the opportunity to trial a patient experience tool that may assist in developing our own model for Patient Medical Home. The tool has been piloted by five practices in BC and has been found to be easy to use by patients, and physicians feedback indicates they found the data useful.

The pilot is being expanded and is now being offered to 20 additional practices in BC, which includes one in Oceanside.

Each selected practice will receive a supply of tablets to be provided to patients to complete a short 3-4 question survey, the questions for which you will choose from a bank of questions provided. Physicians have made the tablets available to patients in a kiosk in the waiting room, in the exam room or they were handed out when patients checked in with the MOA, to complete the survey while they wait. Assistance from PSP is available in implementing the process and exploring ways of working with what is learned.

There are criteria for selection, including a commitment to work with the pilot team to improve the function of the tool over the coming year. Please review the criteria below and attached. If you are interested, please contact me at louisehara@gmail.com for the registration form.

Louise Hara
Interim Executive Director
Oceanside Division of Family Practice
604-942-5150
louisehara@gmail.com

Last Month's GPSC Meeting Summary

Please find here the June GPSC meeting summary. This month’s key updates are about:

• Incentive Program
• Patient Medical Home
• Impact Funding
• Division representatives attending GPSC meetings
• UpToDate
• Pharmacists in practice
• GPSC Spring Summit
• Feedback from the Profession
• Maternity care
• Hearing from our partners

We encourage divisions to share this meeting summary, in whole or in part, with member doctors. 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 Dispatch

View the latest Divisions Dispatch here

Find the latest news from the provincial team and complementary organizations in this issue of Divisions Dispatch. This newsletter is sent to local division physician leads, executive directors, coordinators, and admin staff; Doctors of BC staff involved in the GPSC and the Divisions of Family Practice initiative; and a number of Ministry of Health and health authority staff. We encourage divisions to share the newsletter, or the relevant items, with their members. 

Inside the July 6, 2017 issue

• Upcoming incentive changes and GPSC fee G14074 ending as of October 1, 2017
• Reminder: Timeline of sessional fee changes, April 2016 – May 2017
• Afsaneh Moradi is new acting Director of Community Partnerships and Integration
• Reminder: IMF questionnaire deadline is July 15
• Ministry of Health seeks division input on family physician health human resource (HHR) planning
• Continued division representation at GPSC meetings
• Pacific Northwest Division member wins Doctors of BC Silver Medal of Service
• Residential Care in South Okanagan Similkameen: Finding a way to have it all
• Division doctors share experiences with GPSC’s leadership program
• Cast your vote – Doctors of BC Elections
• CancerAndWork.ca. Cancer care resource for doctors, patients, and employers
• Partner publications
• Divisions in the News

Divisions in the News

See what is going on in other divisions around BC:

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