SNO Research Event - November 22

Have you ever considered or thought about family practice research?  Ever had any medical questions that you are curious about?  If so, we would like to invite you to an exciting event here in the Shuswap North Okanagan.

Please join us for an evening of stimulating conversation and sharing of ideas with the aim of creating an appetite and enthusiasm for locally relevant research.

Dr. Brett Poulin and Dr. Stefan Grzybowski (Research Director with the UBC Department of Family Practice) are collaborating and will host the evening. Topics may include issues such as:

• How to be involved in research as a practicing (ie. busy) family physician,
• Your ideas and / or suggestions for locally relevant research questions in our area.

DATE:  22 November 2017
VENUE:  Vernon Prestige Hotel and Conference Centre
TIME:  6:00 pm

Sessional time will be paid and dinner will be served.

RSVP no later than 15 November to pcrough@divisionsbc.ca.

This is part of the SNO Division of Family Practice “Better Medicine” initiative (see http://bettermedicine.ca).

The goal is to create supports for family physicians in our area who want to help answer questions relevant to our patients in the Shuswap and North Okanagan. These questions will be locally relevant and may be large or small. Some will involve research projects, and some may be quality improvement projects, but they will all be relevant to physicians and patients in our area. If they will improve patient care, or quality of life for either you or your patients, we want to hear your ideas.

This is the first of two planned events. The Vernon Jubilee Hospital Physician Society is also hosting an event planned for January 31, 2018. All physicians with hospital privileges can attend under the physician society, and the SNO Division will support any interested physicians who do not have current hospital privileges. The event in January is more tuned to research that involves IHA staff or facilities, and will involve speakers from the IHA Ethics board and research department. Our event is more oriented toward family physicians, and how you can be involved in clinical research and quality improvement in or outside the hospital environment.

We look forward to seeing all interested physicians at both events.

Residential Care Meetings - Salmon Arm (November 29) and Vernon (November 30)

Please note that the Vernon session date has changed (details below).

Save the date for an important meeting to review the residential care data for the past year as well as the $400 / bed allocation.

Please review your community's data by clicking on the appropriate link below:

Armstrong, Enderby, Lumby and Vernon
Salmon Arm

Salmon Arm

• Date:  Wednesday, November 29, 2017
• Location:  Prestige Harbourfront Resort, Salmon Arm
• Time:  6:00 p.m.  A buffet dinner will be served.

Vernon

• Date:  Thursday, November 30, 2017 (originally scheduled for November 22)
• Location:  Prestige Hotel and Conference Centre, Vernon
• Time:  6:00 p.m. A buffet dinner will be served.

Sessional time will be paid.

Please RSVP no later than November 24 to pcrough@divisionsbc.ca indicating which meeting you will attend along with any dietary restrictions.

This meeting is open to all physicians and facility managers.  We will present and discuss the residential care QI data collected over the past year.

Save the Date for Upcoming Events

January 18, 2018

• An evening with Dr. Charlie Secretan to discuss common pathologies and management of hips and knees.

February 21, 2018

• An evening event for family physicians and hospitalists to discuss patient care.

April 18, 2018

• An Evening with General Surgery

More information on these events will be forthcoming but please take the opportunity to add these dates to your calendar now.

New supports to care for youth transitioning to adult care

New general and condition specific supports are available for family physicians to care for youth with complex-chronic care conditions. These resources have developed through a Specialist Services Committee (SSC) funded project led by Dr. Sandy Whitehouse.

Transitioning to Adult Care for Youth with Chronic Health Conditions and Disabilities is a free online accredited UBC-CPD course offering up to 1.0 CME credits for four 15-minute online modules.

Condition-specific Transition Care Management Plans/Resources offers 24 cardiology and neurology specific care plans to assist with managing patient care.

Transitioning Patients from Community Pediatricians into Adult Care helps pediatricians in the transfer of adolescent patients with complex needs into the adult health-care system.

Medical student placements urgently needed for January – April 2018

The UBC Undergraduate Department of Family Practice is urgently seeking physician preceptors for 200 students in years one and two who have no family practice placement between January and April 2018.

Sessions can be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday afternoons at the participating physician’s office. No teaching experience is required.

If eligible for payment, physicians will be remunerated $90 per session for one learner and $110 for two. One Mainpro+ non-certified credit can be claimed for each hour of teaching. Unlimited additional Mainpro+ certified credits can be obtained by completing the College of Family Physicians Canada Linking Learning to Practice forms related to teaching or faculty development activities.

For more information please contact:
Stephanie Ng (fmpr.y1@ubc.ca), Year 1 Program Assistant
Shanti Rivas (fmpr.y2@ubc.ca), Year 2 Program Assistant

How are the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons standards on chronic pain impacting your practice? (Survey)

Take part in a University of British Columbia 10-minute confidential on-line survey and let us know how the standards have impacted your pain management. The study cannot identify you so your answers and comments are confidential. This survey will also help Pain BC plan education useful to you and identify resource needs in communities.

Click here to complete the study survey

Principal Investigator:

• Romayne Gallagher MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
  Department of Family & Community Medicine, Providence Health Care
  Contact: rgallagher@providencehealth.bc.ca

In collaboration with Pain BC

BC Wildfires and Emergency Preparedness Planning (Survey)

Doctors of BC’s Council on Health Promotion is undertaking a policy project on supporting physicians in disaster and emergency preparedness. To help inform the development of our policy project, they would like to hear from you about your experiences during this summer’s wildfire events and your experiences since with recovery and future preparedness.

Please share your thoughts by completing this survey, which will take approximately 10 minutes.