Emergency Medicine Update

November 2018

PD Post

CBD Tips

As many of you know by now, CBD implementation is on track and our PGY 1 residents completed Transition to Discipline in Blocks 1-3, and are currently in the Foundation stage (congratulations PGY1s!). I recently completed post_CBD implementation site visits at SMH, SHSC and UHN to hear from our faculty. Thank you for hosting me, and for the positive and constructive feedback about CBD. Click here additional resources we have put together for your reference in response

Save the Dates

City Wide M&M&I- November 21
w/ Drs. Eddie Xie & Firas Al-Rawi

Women in EM Tri-Divisional Mentorship Event- Nov 21

Lunch and Learn- Finding Our Way Home: A family's story of life, love, and loss w/ Dr Damon Dagnone- Nov 27

Division Holiday Party- RSVP for Dec 5

Annual Update in Emergency Medicine - Feb 24 - 27, 2019 in Whistler, BC

WADEM Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine- May 7-10, 2019 in Brisbane, Australia

ICEM- June 12-15, 2019 in Coex, Seoul

Safe Opioid Prescribing Webinars Jan-March

Faculty Opportunities

Urgent Call For CaRMS File Reviewers- 8-12 files per person

Call for Applications - Canada Research Chairs- November 26, 2018

Systems Leadership & Innovation MSc- UofT Masters Program

Health Science (MHSc) in Bioethics- UofT Masters Program

Advancing Safety for Patients in Residency Education Certificate Course- May 28-31, 2019

Grants/ Funding Opportunities

Clinician-Educator Training Program (CETP) Application Deadline: November 19, 2018

Clinician-Scientist Training Program (CSTP) Application Deadline: December 3, 2018

Leadership Announcements

SMH ED Chief- Selected candidate awaiting board approval

SHSC ED Chief- Dr Aikta Verma

UHN VP of Medical Affairs- Dr Anil Chopra

DOM Millennial Representative- Kaif Pardhan

Additional News

DOM- Chair's Column- Five-Year Review

QI Newsletter- November

UofT FRCP EM Residency Program is urgently seeking both Faculty and Residents to act as file reviewers for CaRMS applications.

Faculty will receive between 8-12 files to review over the period of November 27th and December 6th.

Please contact Chloe at program.em@utoronto.ca to sign up.

We need your help!

The Ripple Refugee group is sponsoring a young mother and her four children, all under 8 years old. The family was forced to flee their home in Eritrea.

To learn more of how you can help click here

PUBLICATIONS

Innes D, Sivilotti M, Ovens H, McLelland K, Dukelow A, Kwok E, Chopra A, Cheng I, Kalla D, Mackinnon D, Kim Sing C, Barclay N, Ross T, Chochinov A. Emergency overcrowding and access block: A smaller problem than we think CJEM 2018:1– 9; DOI 10.1017/cem.2018.446

Vaillancourt S, Beaton D, Maybee A. Engaging patients to develop a patient-reported outcome measure for the emergency department CMAJ November 07, 2018 190 (Suppl) S50-S52; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.180353

Gorkinkel I, Lexchin J. A call to mandate patient access to personal primary care medical records across Canada. CMAJ 2018;190:E869-70

Hobday K, Hulme J, Homer C et al. “My job is to get pregnant women to the hospital”: a qualitative study of the role of traditional birth attendants in the distribution of misoprostol to prevent post-partum haemorrhage in two provinces in Mozambique. Reproductive Health (2018) 15:174

Lexchin J. We need answers to the thalidomide tragedy – to ensure drug safety today. The Conversation. Oct. 24, 2018.

Lexchin J. Cost recovery by Health Canada and drug safety: a time-series analysis. CMAJ Open 2018;6:E471-477

Lexchin J. Editorial. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology 2018;25:e31-e32

Schiff GD, Martin SA, Eidelman DH, Volk LA, Ruan E, Cassel C, Galanter W, Johnson M, Jutel A, Kroenke K, Lambert BL, Lexchin J, Myers S, Miller A, Mushlin S, Sanders L, Sheikh A. Ten principles for more conservative, care-full diagnosis. Annals of Internal Medicine 2018:doi:10.7326/M18-1468.

POSTERS

Improving emergency department management of acute opioid withdrawal Klaiman M, Bahinski K, Costello L, Dell E, McGowan M, Medcalf K, Phillips S, Sylvestre A, Vaillancourt D, Cheng AHY

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