No Images? Click here March 2018 Big data helps small patientsMatthew Carroll talks to young patient Cael Lambert about medical matters... and hockey. Matthew Carroll is on a mission. Using big data to improve treatments for children who have inflammatory bowel disease, the UAlberta pediatric gastroenterologist recently developed a faster protocol for administering a medicine given intravenously, shortening the influsion time from four hours to one. This means kids spend less time at the hospital and families spend less time away from school and work. Register to attend Pediatric Research DayCharlene Nielsen and Osnat Wine (l-r) display DoMiNO project research at Pediatric Research Day 201.. The fifth annual Pediatric Research Day will take place Wednesday, May 16, 2018. Sixty-four abstracts were submitted this year! Check the department website for updates to the schedule coming soon. Pediatric Research Day Register now to attend - deadline is May 10 Advertise your research at the StolleryBanners and posters in Stollery clinics, and AHS website access to lists of studies, are part of an effort to promote awareness of research and offer opportunities for families to participate. Pediatric researchers can now advertise studies open for recruitment in Stollery Children's Hospital 1D1 and 2E clinic rooms. The Department of Pediatrics, Women and Children's Health Research Institute and Alberta Health Services (AHS) have collaborated on a process and resources for raising awareness and encouraging families to participate in research. AHS has updated the Stollery Children's Hospital research webpage to include listings of studies currently recruiting. An approved template to prepare your study poster is available from Department of Pediatrics. View the procedure for recruitment posters in the Stollery Update your faculty research profile on the webIt really can be all about you! Faculty members can update their research profiles on web, accessible to potential graduate students, colleagues and collaborators. The "professor page" is your personal web page and is linked to online directories on department, faculty, and other UAlberta websites. The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry pre-populates your page from the Faculty Administration Resource Manager (FARM) system, so you don't have to start from scratch. Many department members have yet to mark their information "public" or take advantage of the ability to customize what is shown. Pro Tip: Your profile is pre-populated from FARM, and you choose which aspects to make public, but you may want to customize an "About Me" or "Research" page to showcase your most relevant work at a glance. See your current profile Welcome to our 2018-2019 chief residentsCongratulations to incoming co-chief residents Nick Griffin and Zafira Bhaloo. The term for their positions is May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019. Thanks to outgoing co-chief residents Cynthia Gunaratnam and Cielle Wachnian for their hard work and dedication to the general pediatrics program over the past year! CBD is coming soon to a residency program near youCompetence by Design (CBD) is rolling out in postgraduate medical education programs across Canada. Click on the graphic above to view the CBD info for residents. Resources are being developed to assist learners and teachers as Competence by Design (CBD), a multi-year initiative launched to transform medical education in Canada, begins in several programs at UAlberta. Pediatric nephrology will transition beginning 2018-2019. CBD will introduce a hybrid model of competency-based medical education (CBME) to learning and assessment in residency and specialty practice across Canada. The goal of CBD is to enhance patient care by improving specialist training and lifelong learning, ensuring physicians demonstrate the skills and behaviours required to continuously meet evolving patient needs. Elisha Krochak is our department CBD coordinator. Anyone interested in faculty development sessions, or information on piloting their program, can contact Elisha at pedscbd@ualberta.ca. Learn 4 ways specialty training is changing Pediatric pain toolkits launched onlineResources for health care providers and families, including the above video, are now available online. The Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres (CAPHC) has launched the Pediatric Pain Toolkit with information for health care providers and families about both acute and chronic pain. Toolkits, videos, an e-book, and other resources are available for the following topics:
Go to the CAPHC Pediatric Pain Toolkit Colleagues share their work at iHOPE Research DayCielle Wachnian explains her research to iHOPE Research Day guest speaker Rod Rassekh (centre) and David Eisenstat, department member and Department of Oncology chair. Researchers focused on basic science or discovery-based research, translational studies linking bench to bedside, clinical research, cancer prevention and epidemiology and quality of life studies gathered April 26 for the sixth annual division of Pediatric Immunology, Hematology, Oncology, Palliative Care and Environmental Health (iHOPE) Research Day. Guest speaker Rod Rassekh, clinical investigator at the Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, presented POG, PROFYLE and GO-PGX - Personalized Cancer Care in Canadian Children. Special thanks to members of the iHOPE Research Day organizing committee, including Sunil Desai, Alvaro Orsornio-Vargas, Karina Black, Karen Giron and Pamela Dolinski, and to event sponsors the Kids with Cancer Society. Gratitude is also extended to the WCHRI Hair Massacure Fund, the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions, the Alberta Cancer Foundation, the Children's Oncology Group, the University of Alberta, and the Kids with Cancer Society for funding our researchers. Interactive workshops help department trainees at Common Academic DayPediatric trainees come together for Common Academic Day April 4. Department of Pediatrics trainees gathered for the second annual Common Academic Day April 4. In addition to the academic half days that each department program provides for their trainees, the larger common day allows all training programs and disciplines to learn from quality speakers who are experts in the intrinsic CanMEDS roles. "Our workshops are interactive and the excellent engagement of all attendees demonstrates the amazing educational environment that our training program directors and program assistants have developed in our department," explains Chloe Joynt, pediatric postgraduate subspecialty education director. This year's workshop topics included:
Watch this entertaining and informative Surgery 101 Handover video Gustavo Ortega retires from clinical practiceGustavo Ortega has retired from clinical practice effective April 30, 2018. As a clinical academic colleague, Ortega has contributed much to the Department of Pediatrics by teaching and mentoring many learners over his career. His involvement with medical education will be missed, as will his dedication to his patients--especially those in the Spanish community of Edmonton and surrounding areas. We wish him well in retirement! Stollery Children's Hospital delivers the newsThe Stollery Children's Hospital has launched a newsletter for AHS staff. The April issue of Stollery News is now available. Upcoming Department EventsMay 16: Pediatric Research Day June 6: Faculty Appreciation & Recognition Dinner June 19: Junior Faculty Workshop - Writing Skills June 20: Pediatric Trainee Farewell Thursdays: Pediatric Grand Rounds Worklife ResourcesThe University of Alberta is a great place to work, with access to many programs, services and resources for faculty and staff. Please visit Human Resource Services Learning and Development for more information or the Learning Shop Calendar for upcoming courses and workshops.
For human resources service in the Department of Pediatrics, please contact Kevin Meleskie at 780.248.5413. Submit your story to the PulsePediatric Pulse is an internal publication for faculty, staff and learners in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta. It is published the first Tuesday of every month by department communications staff. The deadline to submit to the June newsletter is May 21, 2018. |