Dear colleagues,

Some divisional updates:

1. GIM citywide rounds continue on the last Friday of each month, with the next session on October 30^th covering virtual clinics and Suboxone management. These rounds are accredited by the RCPSC. If you would like to join but have not received a calendar invitation with the Zoom link, please email joe.graves@uhn.ca.
2. Thanks to everyone who continues to work on our COVID units and other GIM services. Also thanks to Dr. Ophyr Mourad and the GIM Working Group for their ongoing preparation for the redesign implementation in July 2021. We anticipate that this will bring improvements to the CTU experience for residents, faculty and patients. In the interim, we continue to benefit from the interventions that have been implemented over the past few years to improve the CTU experience, including developing rapid referral clinics and using the Acute Ambulatory Care Unit to divert admissions from the ED, creating post-discharge clinics to enable safe discharges, developing the ED admit resident rotation to assist with admissions at peak times, expanding hospitalist/non-teaching teams to reduce the census on CTU, and having nocturnists at some sites to cover non-CTU patients. For those who work on the clinical teaching units, useful documents outlining the roles and responsibilities of attending staff and residents are available here.
3. COVID-19 has the potential to have a disproportionate effect on the academic productivity of female faculty with young children and others with responsibilities outside the workplace.  Dr. Lisa Richardson, in her capacity as Vice Chair of Culture and Inclusion, is working with the DoM to develop strategies for mitigating this. In the short-term, some may wish to maintain a COVID CV, recognizing that this may not be helpful in all circumstances. 

Sincerely,

Moira
Dr. Moira Kapral
Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Toronto

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Acute Care Update: Registration Open
St. Joseph's Health Centre is pleased to announce the return of Acute Care Update 2020. The in-person annual conference has been cancelled. The 2020/21 version of Acute Care Update will be presented as four virtual programs hosted on ZOOM.

The 2020 Acute Care Update will be free of charge. To receive the ZOOM videoconference link, users must register for the program in advance.  For more information and to registration see here.

Editor's note: The sessions promise to be outstanding. Attendance encouraged.

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