December
Developing a progressive Post-Graduate, Year-appropriate residents-as-teachers training program
Dr Sandra Jarvis-Selinger outlined the residents-as-teachers project.
Recording available here.
November
Evidence 2 Excellence: A Technology Enabled Quality Improvement Program for BC Emergency Departments
Anna Needs outlined the E2E Project, a joint collaboration between the eHealth Strategy Office, St. Paul’s Hospital’s Emergency Associates, B.C. Ministry of Health and the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council. E2E is a Emergency Medicine Community that is promoting operational and clinical quality improvement in BC hospitals.
Recording available here.
October
Remote, Hands-On You-Tube Mediated Education (RHYME) for Medical Residents : Using Social Media to Enable Interactive Feedback in Rural Medical Clerkships
Nelson Shen and Daniel Hooker provide an introduction to the RHYME project, which uses video-based feedback to rural medical students to address examsmanship skills for OSCEs.
Recording available here.
September
Applying ehealth technology to public health education and intervention
Dr. Qian Xu is Vice Dean of the Fu Dan University School of Public Health, China. She outlined her current teaching program which uses a website for information sharing within a multidisiplinary teaching network, as well as two research studies which both using mobile phone message and web based discussion to intervene in public health behavior.
Recording not currently available.
Health Sciences Online: a revolution in democratizing health sciences education
Dr. Erica Frank, MD, MPH is Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, and, among other things, Founder and Executive Director of Health Sciences Online (www.hso.info). HSO is the first website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge, allowing any health sciences topic to search and browse over 50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other learning resources.
Recording available here.
August
From Tasmania to Vancouver- Observations from the (other) colonies in Emergency Department processes, supporting IT systems and performance measurement
Dr Tony Lawler is an Emergency Physician by training and currently Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the Southern Tasmania Area Health Service. The talk focused on some of the most obvious, and some less obvious, similarities and differences between the Australian (most notably Tasmanian) experience and Dr Lawler’s brief sojourn here in Vancouver, as well as some of the lessons to be learned. In his role, Tony has responsibility for (among other continuously appearing items) clinical information systems management, professional development for senior clinicians, simulation-based training, accreditation of post-graduate specialist training, and the Hospital’s clinical protocol, policy and guideline structure. He also recently oversaw the implementation of a clinical portal for patient care and the introduction of a new patient information system at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
Recording available here.
July
Human-Computer Interaction – a Primer
Noreen Kamal, former Assistant Director of Technology, eHealth Strategy Office, gives an introduction to her primary area of research that explores the ways in which humans use, manipulate and explore computer interfaces.
Recording available here.
May
Training peers to provide ongoing diabetes self-management support (DSMS): Results from a pilot study
Dr. Tricia Tang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Michigan Medical School. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Tang’s research has been focused on diabetes prevention and control in medically underserved patient populations. She received a NIH-sponsored K23 career development award to pursue a comprehensive training program in the conduct of diabetes translational research in high-risk communities. As the PI of a grant sponsored by the International Diabetes Federation, Dr. Tang is examining the feasibility of developing a “peer leader” training program. She is also PI on a grant funded by the American Academy of Family Physicians and Eli Lilly that proposes to evaluate the diabetes-related health impact of peer support intervention in clinic-based and community-based settings.
Recording not currently available.