Danielle Martin

Building the virtual hospital: Learning health systems, health equity, technology and the kitchen sink

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Marshall Chin

Advancing health equity with quality improvement: Lessons from cinema, science and patient care

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Jerome Leis

Successes and challenges applying QI science in a pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic has required a significant proportion of ambulatory medical patient encounters transition to virtual settings. These have become the de facto clinical environments where many residents now participate in care delivery.

Faculty members in the Department of Medicine are dedicated teachers who want to uphold a high standard of teaching and supervision in these new virtual clinical environments. However, many of them remain unsure about how to set up their clinics to support resident education, or how to effectively supervise one or more trainees and teach effectively while delivering care virtually.

Two 90-minute accredited interactive virtual workshops are now available to support faculty members in the Department of Medicine to address these needs.

Virtual Clinical Medical Education Workshop #2:
Learner Supervision & Assessment in Virtual Care

Presenters:

• Leora Branfield Day, General Internal Medicine,
• Helena Dhamko, Haematology,
• Heather MacNeill, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, &
• Rebecca Stovel, General Internal Medicine.

Learning objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Recognize virtual care competencies that can be achieved by trainees and appreciate how to foster them.
• Design effective educational goals and objectives for virtual care. 
• Deliver effective feedback and utilize assessment tools in virtual care environments.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, approved by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

A full list of scheduled workshops is available. If you are interested but cannot attend these workshops, please email Christian Base to be placed on a waiting list for future sessions.

The COVID-19 pandemic has required a significant proportion of ambulatory medical patient encounters transition to virtual settings. These have become the de facto clinical environments where many residents now participate in care delivery.

Faculty members in the Department of Medicine are dedicated teachers who want to uphold a high standard of teaching and supervision in these new virtual clinical environments. However, many of them remain unsure about how to set up their clinics to support resident education, or how to effectively supervise one or more trainees and teach effectively while delivering care virtually.

Two 90-minute accredited interactive virtual workshops are now available to support faculty members in the Department of Medicine to address these needs.

Virtual Clinical Medical Education Workshop #1:
Virtual Teaching Clinic Workflow - Optimizing Processes and Experiences

Presenters:

• McKyla McIntyre, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation,
• Sharon Marr, Geriatric Medicine,
• Ahmed Omar, Rheumatology &
• Elan Panov, Medical Oncology.

Learning objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Effectively triage patients into a virtual care clinic that includes trainees
• Adapt virtual clinic processes to include trainees, and to be able to efficiently incorporate teaching and evaluation into a virtual care clinic setting
• Appreciate how digital health EDI impacts virtual care within high risk groups and to incorporate solutions into your virtual clinic

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, approved by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Register here.

A full list of scheduled workshops is available. If you are interested but cannot attend these workshops, please email Christian Base to be placed on a waiting list for future sessions.

Faculty of Medicine Office of Continuing Professional Development COVID-19 Webinar Series:

Toronto Cognitive Assessment (TorCA) and Behavioural Neurology Assessment (MNA-SF): Virtual Cognitive Assessment Beyond the MMSE and MoCA

The virtual MMSE and MoCA provide a basic assessment of cognitive function. In this webinar, we will demonstrate a more in-depth approach to virtual evaluation of cognitive function using the Behavioural Neurology Assessment (BNA-SF) and the Toronto Cognitive Assessment (TorCA). Both tests have been adopted as standards within the Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, and can be administered by health care professionals or trained assistants.

Register to join us on Friday, July 3, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (ET).

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Administer the BNA-SF virtually
• Supplement the BNA-SF with items from the TorCA for more in-depth cognitive assessment when required in selected cases
• Discuss the limitations of virtual cognitive assessments using the BNA-SF and TorCA

Speaker:

Morris Freedman MD FRCPC FAAN
Professor, Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto
Head, Division of Neurology, Baycrest
Medical Director, Cognition and Behaviour, Baycrest
Scientist, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest

Accreditation Information:

• Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada – Section 3 – 1 hour
• College of Family Physicians Canada – 1 Mainpro+ credit

Faculty of Medicine Office of CPD: COVID-19 Webinar Series

Virtual Cognitive Assessment using OTN

OTN's virtual care solutions has recently been adapted by many healthcare professionals to assess and care for their patients. In our upcoming webinar, we demonstrate how to use the built-in functions in OTN to carry out a detailed cognitive assessment virtually.

Register to join us on Friday, May 22, 2020 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (ET).

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Perform a detailed cognitive assessment virtually to assess memory, executive function, attention, visuospatial function, and language
• Virtually administer cognitive tests that require visual presentation of test stimuli
• Assemble patient drawings that have been completed virtually

Speaker

Morris Freedman MD FRCPC FAAN
Professor, Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto
Head, Division of Neurology, Baycrest
Medical Director, Cognition and Behaviour, Baycrest
Scientist, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest

Accreditation Information

Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada – Section 3 – 1 hour
College of Family Physicians Canada – 1 Mainpro+ credit

Original notice

COVID-19 Webinar Series

Univerisity of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine
Office of Continuing Professional Development

Working in the ICU during a pandemic - What you need to know

This free webinar on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from 2-3 p.m. (EDT) will feature a short presentation on ICU Practices and Care, including Personal Protection Equipment Practices, that will be required for non-ICU practitioners to work in an ICU during the pandemic followed by a discussion period where Dr. Brian H. Cuthbertson and Dr. Jerome Leis answer your questions on being redeployed to the ICU.

Brian H Cuthbertson MBChB MD FRCA Chief, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Vice Chair (Research), University Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto

Jerome Leis MSc MD FRCPC Medical Director, Infection Prevention & Control, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Full details and registration

The three Canadian granting agencies, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), are collaborating on a Tri-Agency initiative to improve the online grants management systems, with an aim to better support the needs of the Canadian research community. For more information on the Tri-Agency Grants Management Solution (TGMS) initiative, please see the TGMS one-pager.

As a part of this initiative, TGMS is engaging users early and often through targeted activities to better understand the research community’s needs. Over the past several months, TGMS has developed journey maps (user process visualizations) through consultation to represent the research community's primary users in the roles of applicants, reviewers, and research administrators. To enhance and deepen the content of the journey maps Tri-Agency is now engaging a larger group of users.

University of Toronto researchers who have previous experience as applicants and/or reviewers for Tri-Agency granting programs are welcome to register for a consultation workshop. Your participation in this workshop would be indispensable for improving the online grant management experience, both for you and your colleagues.

There are two separate workshop sessions scheduled for Monday, January 27th. You are invited to register for one of the following sessions, based on your experience in the roles of an applicant or a reviewer, by clicking on the appropriate registration link:

Applicant workshop

• Date/Time: Monday, January 27, 2020 | 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
• Location: O.I.S.E., room 8214 (252 Bloor St W – see campus map)
• Registration Link: https://cris.eve.utoronto.ca/home/events/528

Reviewer workshop

• Date/Time: Monday, January 27, 2020 | 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Location: O.I.S.E., room 5230 (252 Bloor St W – see campus map)
• Registration Link: https://cris.eve.utoronto.ca/home/events/529

(Note: If this your first time using the EVE registration system, you will be prompted to create a short user profile. After having completed your user profile, you will be able to browse the event calendar or search for the workshop session. Importantly, you also need to REGISTER for the specific workshop date and time by clicking directly on the session you would like to attend).

Please register by Monday, January 13th as spaces are limited.

If you have any questions, please contact Peter Schwarz-Lam, University of Toronto liaison to the TGMS initiative, at p.schwarzlam@utoronto.ca.