No images? Click here October 2022 Quarterly NewsletterFor content submission forms, deadlines, and the monthly vs. quarterly structure and schedule of the 2022 Family Matters Newsletter relaunch, click here. MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRI would like to start by saying thank you to every Family Physician who is working beyond their capacity on a daily basis to provide optimal care to their patients. In addition, thank you to many of you for teaching on top of all this. Much of this work is unseen, and often underappreciated. Some of you will be familiar with a recent study suggesting that in order to provide all guideline-recommended prevention activities, chronic disease management and acute care, primary care physicians would need an average of 26.7 hours per day. All of the prevention and chronic disease management requirements allowed for an average of 2.2 hours for acute disease management. This might explain why we see emergency rooms overwhelmed. The system needs a reset. We need to re-evaluate the competing demands and opportunities we all face, and prioritize those interventions with the best evidence for improved patient-oriented outcomes. While there are many good ideas, we cannot do them all. The good news is governments are looking at how to improve the provision of primary care. Provinces have recently implemented large-scale changes. Here in Alberta, we as an academic department have an opportunity—our voice. We can promote prioritizing interventions with improved patient outcomes, but also big system improvements. This is the landscape our future trainees will be working in. What are your big sky ideas for improvement? How do we make an impossible job possible—and have some fun while we are at it? Drop me a line if you have some ideas. I would love to hear from you as we look to create a future where folks are knocking down the door to join us. Thank you all for continuing to do an impossible job impossibly well! - Dr. Christina Korownyk CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & EVENTSTTCxFSD Data Analysis with SPSS SessionFriday, December 9, 2022 This session will introduce the Statistics menu and demonstrate descriptive and inferential statistical procedures available in SPSS, such as exploratory analysis, regression, correlation, and hypothesis testing. The first part will focus on how to summarize data using descriptive statistics and data visualization tools. The second part will include demonstrations of regression and correlations and statistical techniques to make group comparisons based on a quantitative variable (e.g., two-sample t-test and analysis of variance). Introduction to Systematic Review Searching Workshop (4 Parts)Nov 21-24, 2022
For details and to register, click here. NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTSCall for Applications: TUTOR-PHC Program The Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research – Primary Health Care Program is a one-year, pan-Canadian interdisciplinary research capacity building program that has been training primary and integrated health care researchers, clinicians and decision-makers from family medicine, nursing, psychology, epidemiology, social work, occupational therapy, education, policy and many other disciplines since 2003. Why apply?
Deadline to apply: December 5, 2022 TUTOR-PHC trainees gain enhanced evidence-informed decision making & leadership skills to help them become the primary health care leaders of tomorrow. Each trainee will be responsible for a $3000 CND program fee. Click here for more information. 6th Floor Giving Tree Accepting Donations The Department of Family Medicine is putting up a Giving Tree to collect warm clothing for the 4B Harm Reduction Society. Collections will commence November 14th until December 9th. The tree will be located on the 6th floor in the Research Office of University Terrace. Direct questions to peggy.lewis@ualberta.ca. FACULTY & STAFF DEVELOPMENTThursday, November 24, 2022 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM MST Virtual via ZOOMAll teaching faculty are cordially invited to attend the Faculty Development Session “Antiracism This session is certified for 1.5 Mainpro Credits. Please click the button to RSVP and register for this session. Thursday, January 26, 2023 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM MST Virtual via ZOOMWhat would you learn if you were in Med School in 2023? Gender Affirming Care presented by Dr. Sanja Kostov By the end of this session, participants will be able to: This session is certified for 1.5 Mainpro Credits. Please click the button to RSVP and register for this session. SPOTLIGHTErika Siroski: Residency Program Team LeadIt takes a great leader to run a great team, and since joining the Department of Family Matters in 2008, Erika Siroski has grown into that role. If the Residency Program is to run like the well-oiled machine the department relies on it to be, then Erika is the first to show up with said oil. However, she is the first to acknowledge the other heads and hands ensuring the Residency gears keep turning.
Lasting friendships and great working relationships have resulted over Erika's fourteen years with the department, but ultimately the most valuable aspect gained from her career so far is belief in herself.
No doubt such confidence is necessary when faced with helping lead the charge marketing Family Medicine to future doctors. Medical student exposure to family medicine and its relation to CaRMS applications is Erika's current priority, with the focus of "creating positive experiences for all medical students with great family medicine role models in LCE, clerkship, and electives." This campaign has generated a large number of upcoming residency events: the Residency Fair, the U of A Open House for CaRMS candidates, Donuts with Family Docs, and booths at several conferences such as AMSCAR and FMF. Luckily this busy time also happens to coincide with Erika's favourite season: hockey season. A successful CaRMS campaign and some consistent Oiler wins are all our Residency Program Team Lead—and the majority of our department—could hope for. Spotlight NominationNominate a faculty or staff member for future inclusion in a Family Matters spotlight! The spotlight process has been streamlined to make participating in both the nomination and the spotlight more convenient and efficient. RECENT PUBLICATIONSAnderson S, Parmar J, L'Heureux T, Charles L, Lobchuck M, St. Amant O, Penner J, Tite J, Dobbs B, Ward-Griffin C. Double Duty Caregivers: Balancing Caregiving at Home and Care at Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2022 Aug 25. Click here to read. Anderson S, Parmar J, L'Heureux T, Dobbs B, Charles L, Tian PGJ. Family Caregiving during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: A Mediation Analysis. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 15;19(14):8636. Click here to read. Kraut R, Manca D, Lofters A, Babenko O. A Case for Offering HPV Self-Sampling to Well-Screened Women. Comment on Lesack et al. Willingness to Self-Collect a Sample for HPV-Based Cervical Cancer Screening in a Well-Screened Cohort: HPV FOCAL Survey Results. Curr. Oncol. 2022, 29, 3860–3869. Current Oncology. 2022; 29(8):5368-5369. Click here to read. NEXT IN FAMILY MATTERS... Submit your:
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