SUMMARY

Fri Jan 26 – Sun Jan 28, 2024 | 6:30–8:30 p.m

ACoRN picks up where the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) leaves off. ACoRN provides the process, tools, skills and knowledge needed to assist in the stabilization of the at-risk and/or unwell newborn.

The purpose of the ACoRN workshop is to help care providers at the bedside to use a consistent systematic approach to answer the following questions:

• How do you identify an infant that is sick or “at-risk”?
• Does the infant require resuscitation at this moment?
• How do you stabilize the infant and initiate on-going care?
• How does working through the primary survey help to identify and prioritize all significant problems?
• How do you identify the likelihood of infection?
• How do you identify ‘all’ important clinical problems and initiate stabilization for each of them?
• How does one enter, work within and exit the various sequences in the algorithm?
• When do you need to consider transferring the infant to a higher level of care?
• What principles should you remember in order to best support the infant, the family and the health care team within which you work?

SUMMARY

The Addiction Care and Treatment Online Course (ACTOC) is a comprehensive 22-module online course for health care providers that diagnose and treat patients with substance use disorders using evidence-based treatments along a continuum of care.

Learners are awarded up to 20.0 Mainpro+/MOC Section 3 credits for completion of the Addiction Care and Treatment Online Certificate and up to 5.0 CNA credits for completion of the Substance Use and Addiction Nursing Certificate.

Although this course is targeted towards health care providers, it is open to the general public. Anyone interested in learning about substance use disorders is encouraged to register for this course.

-Complete online at your own pace (Self-paced)

Acknowledgments:

Designed in partnership by BC Centre for Substance Use, UBC Continuing Professional Development, and UBC School of Nursing.

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SUMMARY

Find course dates via Heart & Stroke BC.

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) is a video-based, Instructor-led, advanced course, builds on the foundation of basic life support (BLS) skills. It emphasizes the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR and takes healthcare provider training to the next level ─ highlighting the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes.

• Systematic approach
• High-quality BLS
• Airway management
• Rhythm recognition
• Defibrillation
• Intravenous (IV)/intraosseous (IO) access (information only)
• Use of medications
• Cardioversion
• Transcutaneous pacing
• Team dynamics

Target audience: Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies.

SUMMARY

LAST CHANCE TO ATTEND THIS COURSE!

The APLS course curriculum ends on Nov 30 so this will be one of the last chances to take this course here in the lower mainland!  With a limit of 24 participants, make sure to reserve your spot early! 

Learn to assess and manage critically ill children during the first hours in the emergency department. Participants are recommended to have previously completed at least one PALS or APLS Course successfully.

Learning objective:

• Assess and manage critically-ill children during the first hours in the emergency department
• Detect an imminently toxic child and institute treatment without delay

Skills Learned:

• Assisted and mechanical ventilation
• advanced airway
• vascular access (intraosseous and central)
• chemical/electrical cardioversion

Target audience: physicians who are routinely involved in the care of critically ill or injured children, including emergency room physicians, pediatricians, and senior emergency medicine and pediatric trainees.

Upcoming:

APLS Course will be offered on Nov 25, 2025 at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Please contact UBC CPD for more information: cpd.info@ubc.ca

SUMMARY

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) is an international course that teaches participants the basic skills necessary for timely management of traumatic injury. The course includes didactic and practical sessions.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn to identify injuries associated with major trauma, management of skills required for early resuscitation, and treatment of injured patients.

Skills

• Assess the patient’s condition rapidly and accurately
• Resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority
• Determine if the patient’s needs exceed a facility’s capacity
• Arrange appropriately for the patient’s inter-hospital transfer (who, what, when, and how)
• Assure that optimum care is provided and maintained throughout the evaluation, resuscitation, or transfer process

Target Audience

Physicians practicing emergency care.

For additional course listings in British Columbia, please visit the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) website. To access a list of the ATLS Coordinators located in Canada, please click here​.​

SUMMARY

The AIME course has been providing valued and practical hands-on airway management learning experiences for clinicians around the world for over 14 years. AIME educators are experienced (and entertaining) clinical instructors who understand the varied work environments of practicing clinicians. Whether you are a physician working in a large, high volume centre or a small remote setting, AIME will provide a practical approach for airway management in emergencies.

Learning Objectives:

• Be more confident and comfortable in making acute care airway management decisions.
• Have acquired a practical staged approach to airway management.
• Be able to choose the most appropriate method of airway management based on a variety of patient presentations.
• Make appropriate choices in the use of pharmacologic agents used to facilitate airway management.
• Know when and how to use various tools and adjuncts for managing the difficult airway.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care.

For information on registration: www.aimeairway.ca

SUMMARY

An exploration of current practices of government and charity-funded critical care transport and retrieval organizations
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | 9:00 am – 10:00 am

Learning Objectives

This session will help participants:

• Explore the current clinical, operational, and educational practices of government and charity-funded critical care transport and retrieval organizations
• Identify the next most reasonable steps

Presenter Bio

Mr. Adam Greene, MSc, CCP
I/Director Air Ambulance and Critical Care Operations
British Columbia Emergency Health Services
Provincial Health Services Authority

Adam is a Critical Care Paramedic with the British Columbia Ambulance Service and the current interim director of the Air Ambulance and Critical Care Operations. Adam holds an MSc in Critical Care from Cardiff University and is currently undertaking a PhD at Monash University. In addition to his clinical practice, he holds a variety of academic appointments in both Canada and Wales. His research interests include out-of-hospital hospital transfusion and transport medicine.

SUMMARY

Awareness and Advocacy: Trailblazing Sepsis Awareness Month at Your Organization
July 18, 2024  |  11:00 am

In anticipation of Sepsis Awareness Month in September, this presentation from the Sepsis Alliance Institute will showcase innovative strategies for promoting sepsis awareness, quality improvement, and patient safety within healthcare teams during Sepsis Awareness Month and year-round. Attendees will learn how one organization was able to leverage organizational initiatives to drive meaningful change. Through unique and engaging awareness and advocacy efforts that promoted collaboration with key stakeholders and leaned into the power of community partnerships to coordinate inter-disciplinary efforts, this team built a successful advocacy campaign.

Utilizing available resources to plan and execute impactful sepsis awareness events that promote continuous improvement and patient safety will also be shared. Whether you’re a healthcare professional, administrator, or advocate, this presentation will equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to make a difference during Sepsis Awareness Month and in the fight against sepsis year-round. Get started with Sepsis Alliance’s Sepsis Awareness Month resources at SepsisAwarenessMonth.org.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the activity, the you should be able to:

• List organizational initiatives that can be used to promote sepsis awareness, quality improvement, and patient safety in a healthcare team;
• Identify ways to collaborate with key stakeholders in healthcare advocacy events;
• Describe how to use available resources to plan a successful sepsis advocacy and awareness event that promotes continuous improvement.

SUMMARY

Bispecific Antibody Therapy in Cancer Care – What Acute Care Physicians Need to Know for Safe Administration 
Thursday, September 12 | 5:30 – 7:00 pm

A panel of cancer experts will delve into crucial information and insights on Bispecific Antibody Therapy. Learn more about bispecific antibodies’ role in cancer management, how to describe inpatient (and subsequent outpatient) administration of bispecific antibodies and more.

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

• Identify bispecific antibodies, a new class of immunotherapy, and their role in cancer management;
• Describe inpatient (and subsequent outpatient) administration of bispecific antibodies;
• Recognize bispecific antibody-related toxicities including cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome; and
• Demonstrate an approach to the management of bispecific antibody-related toxicities.

Speakers
Dr. Azadeh Arjmandi, Family Physician, GPO
Dr. Alina Gerrie, Hematologist
Moderator: Dr. Sian Shuel, Family Physician, GPO, Medical Education Lead, Family Practice Oncology Network

SUMMARY

August 22, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm

At this webinar, participants will get an introduction to Indigenous-specific cultural safety and humility in the context of opioid use disorder-focused substance use care. We will discuss topics including providing substance use care and harm reduction with Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) patients, the role of measurement and indicators in this work, and additional supports to further your learning about embedding culturally safe practices in your settings. We will hear from panelists from a variety of roles who will share about themselves, their experience and knowledge related to this work, and key lessons they’d like to share. This will then be followed with a question-and-answer period with the panelists.

Learning Objectives:

After the webinar, the learner will be able to:

1. Develop a better understanding about Indigenous-specific cultural safety & humility.
2. Identify one new change to try in their care setting to deliver culturally safer opioid use disorder care for Indigenous patients.
3. Discuss approaches to measures of culturally safe substance use care.

SUMMARY

Disaster Medicine in BC: Gaps in our preparedness and how to address them.
Wednesday, May 8 | 9:00 am – 10:00 am

Presenters:
Drs. Anthony Fong & Christopher Lee, Clinical Assistant Professors, UBC DEM

Learning Objectives

This session will focus on these key points:

• Provide examples of notable disaster responses in BC or nationally, involving ERP’s.
• Define basic disaster medicine terminology
• Outline the current health emergency management (HEM) structure in BC.
• Give a practical example of the above structure in action.
• Describe who writes code orange plans, how they are activated, and what they look like.
• Describe opportunities for ERP’s in engagement and activism in HEM.

Presenter Bios

Dr. Anthony Fong is an Emergency Physician at SPH and MSJ and serves as the Education and Training Chair for the Canadian Medical Assistance Teams (CMAT) and has responded to deployments to Honduras, Poland and Ukraine. He has also responded as a clinical health specialist for the Canadian Red Cross domestically. He holds an Associate Certificate in Emergency Management from the Justice Institute of BC, a Fellowship in Global Journalism from the University of Toronto and is pursuing a Masters of Science in Disaster Medicine at the Centre for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid and Global Health.

Dr. Christopher Lee is an Emergency Physician at VGH and UBCH. His administrative work surrounds QI and Disaster Medicine. He is currently the Physician Lead for Spreading Quality Improvement at PHC and VCH, while also leading disaster medicine efforts as Physician Lead for Disaster Preparedness in Vancouver Acute and a provincial role as Associate Medical Director at Health Emergency Management BC, PHSA.

Zoom ID: 93847468390 / Passcode: 468390

SUMMARY

Learn to use ultrasound to detect global cardiac activity, pericardial effusions, AAA’s, intra-abdominal hemorrhage and intra-uterine pregnancies.

The course is unique in that it has continually evolved as the instructor team gained insight into the way beginners learn this skill. Numerous techniques were developed to help the learner acquire a basic understanding of ultrasound image generation and interpretation, making the EDE Course the most effective teaching vehicle for this modality.

Although the EDE Course is occasionally offered as part of a conference, it was mainly designed to come to you if there is enough interest in your centre. There are a number of “off-the-shelf” courses; however, groups can also design their own custom course.

Target Audience: physicians practicing emergency care

For information on registration: www.edecourse.com

SUMMARY

The EDTU course is designed to provide physicians with a strong foundation in emergency ultrasound. The course emphasizes hands-on practical instruction to maximize participant learning. This is achieved with one-on-one bedside teaching on live models.

The course is a two-day program and will accommodate twenty learners. It is designed to facilitate the completion of most (if not all) of the required 50 supervised scans in each of the four areas (aorta, cardiac, abdomen, and pelvis). Target audience: Physicians practicing emergency care.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the basics of ultrasound physics, image generation and interpretation, and image artifact.
• Understand the different types of probes
• Complete most (if not all) of required 50 scans
• Generate limited focused images for all the primary applications of EDTU
• Understand the difference between EDTU and a formal ultrasound
• Understand how EDTU is to be used in the clinical assessment of patients and clinical algorithms for patient care.
• Identify anatomic structures on an ultrasound image that are necessary to interpret the primary examinations
• Understand the importance of establishing and maintaining a quality assurance program at your local ED.
• Learn the psychomotor skills necessary to generate accurate ultrasound images
• Understand the indications for and limitations of EDTU.

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

SUMMARY

The Hands-On Ultrasound Education (HOUSE) program gives rural physicians the training and confidence to integrate point-of-care ultrasound into their practice. This customizable, traveling, hands-on ultrasound training program was created for rural physicians.

By providing education that is customized for each community, the program meets the needs of learners with a wide range of pre-existing skills. HOUSE delivers learning in a relaxed and fun environment with an instructor to student ratio of 1:2. To learn more visit: www.house.ubccpd.ca

We offer a large menu of options: choose from acute care, obstetrics, and internal medicine indications, or mix and match.

About the Hands-On Ultrasound Education Program

SUMMARY

The IH Rural Mobile Simulation Program was designed to provide instruction on emergency medicine concepts and to provide an opportunity for rural providers of emergency care to practice potentially life-saving skills. Like emergency medicine, this program is designed to be flexible to varying levels of experience, knowledge, and background. The course facilitators create a non-threatening, informal environment in which emergency care scenarios can be practiced.

With the high‐fidelity human patient simulators, we are able to create close to real life experiences in sites’ own emergency or trauma room, utilizing their supplies, equipment, and staff while building or enhancing relationships within the inter-professional teams.

Skills:

Focus: to enhance medical skills and knowledge, teamwork, and communication by placing more emphasis on learning that involves real‐time assessment and feedback.

• Simulation can be used to improve clinical decision‐making and psychomotor skills (e.g., airway management, trauma, resuscitation) within a multi‐disciplinary environment
• Simulation reduces medical errors through improved teamwork
• Scenarios can be tailored to meet the needs of the learners
• Training can be conducted in a setting that minimizes time pressures present in the clinical environment

Target audience: physicians, RNs, LPNs, RTs, Lab, BCAS, Students, Residents, Managers, and Administrators.

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

Thursdays, January 23 to March 13, 2025 | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm PST | Full day session Saturday, March 1, 2025 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm | Online workshop

Cost: Free

Audience: Healthcare providers (MD, NP, midwives) who live and or practice in rural BC.

Overview: Join us for the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, part of the Mindfulness in Medicine initiative led by Dr. Rahul Gupta. Through practicing mindfulness, you can restore vitality and agency, recognize implicit bias, better handle uncertainty, and improve decision-making skills. Rahul is a physician, Certified MBSR Teacher. He is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and employs trauma-sensitive approaches.

Up to 23.5 Mainpro+ credits.

Learn more and register for the MBSR program

SUMMARY

* As this course is funded by the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues, we are currently prioritizing registration for rural health care professionals practicing in regulated clinical professions.

This course supports health professionals in rural British Columbia to meet new provincial expectations and standards around providing culturally safe care, including the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s new Practice Standard — Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility and Anti-Racism; recommendations expressed in In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in BC Health Care (2020) and  through reports from the Rural Coordination Centre of BC’s Site Visits with Indigenous communities, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action for health.

The curriculum recognizes that health professionals and patients work in relationship, and a trauma-sensitive approach can help to build respectful, trusting relationships and connect with one another in a good way. The learning in this curriculum is directed inwards as well as outwards, inviting participants to learn not only about new approaches to practice, but also about themselves by reflecting on their own experiences of trauma and ways to support their own wellness.
This learning activity is based on a widely accepted understanding that trauma-sensitive practices are the basis for offering culturally-safe and respectful health services for Indigenous relatives. It draws on two-eyed seeing models, weaving together Indigenous ways of knowing with western trauma theory and neuroscience. It blends Dr. Michael Yellowbird’s work around neuro decolonization, Dr. Stephen Porges’ contributions around polyvagal trauma theory, and experiential Indigenous land-based healing practices to highlight the power of ceremony for reclaiming and maintaining wellness in body, mind and spirit.

Waziyatawin, Yellow Bird M. For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook. Santa Fe: School of American Research; 2012.
Porges S. Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience. 2022; 16: 871227-871227.

Skills Gained

• Learn tangible trauma-sensitive practices for offering health care rooted in cultural understanding and safety for Indigenous Peoples
• Strengthen appreciation of ancestral land-based healing modalities that have supported trauma release for millennia
• Understand polyvagal theory and its implications for supporting trauma recovery with Indigenous relatives
• Deepen empathy and co-regulatory skills as a way of dismantling racism in the health care system and contributing to collective healing

Prerequisites
Level 1 session is available to currently practicing medical professionals who serve rural BC. Completion of Level 1 is a prerequisite for enrolling in Level 2 of this curriculum.

SUMMARY

These ultrasound modules are intended to provide a further understanding of some of the ultrasound scans performed bedside in the emergency department. This is a pilot project to teach basic ultrasound concepts in an online interactive format.

We want you to think critically about how you might manage a patient with these images generated. The modules are not intended to replace an ultrasound course, nor replace image generation skills. Hands-on practice along with formal instruction is also required.

Modules include:

• Aorta ultrasound
• Ocular ultrasound
• FAST ultrasound
• Lung ultrasound
• Cardiac ultrasound

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SUMMARY

• Find BC course dates via Heart & Stroke BC
• Info on 1-day PALS Renewal Course registration via BC Children’s Hospital

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is a video-based, instructor-led, advanced course, that focuses on a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.

This course is designed for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients, as well as others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

Skills:

• Perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per Heart and Stroke
• Foundation basic life support (BLS) recommendations
• Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
• Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds of recognition
• Apply team dynamics
• Differentiate between respiratory distress and failure
• Perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
• Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
• Perform early interventions for the treatment of shock
• Differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
• Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• Implement post–cardiac arrest management

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care

SUMMARY

The PATS course is a simulation-based course that has been developed by local trauma experts at BC Children’s Hospital to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the management of trauma in pediatric patients.

PATS makes use of online modules, simulation cases as well as skill stations to provide healthcare providers with high-yield and up-to-date information in a safe learning environment. Local BCCH protocols and resources are also reviewed and emphasized. This one-day course includes the use of expert role-modelling vignettes and hands-on practice. Each participant will be allocated to an interdisciplinary team consisting of physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists.

As there are no didactic lectures provided during the course, prerequisite online modules must be completed in advance. Access the course materials by logging in to the PHSA Learning Hub at http://learninghub.phsa.ca and search for “PATS” or “Pediatric Advanced Trauma Simulation”.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care, ED and ICU RNs, and RTs.

For information on registration, please email: jallaire@cw.bc.ca

SUMMARY

Pediatric Critical Care Learning (PCCL) Sessions bring together providers from across British Columbia to learn from case presentations. The goal is to support the provision of high quality pediatric care utilizing best and wise practices. Providers from all sites are welcome to join and/or submit cases.

ABOUT THE PCCL SESSIONS:

• When – 3rd Friday of every month at 1-2pm
• Who – Provincial and Interdisciplinary
• Where – Virtual (via Zoom)
• What – 2 de-identified cases presented by providers from a range of communities across BC
• How – The PICU team at BCCH will facilitate the interactive discussion

The facilitation team is committed to supporting culturally safe and equitable care. Sessions will not be recorded.

View the program poster here.

Scan this QR Code to register.

SUMMARY

This course is designed to allow physicians to acquire and review their skills in essential life-saving emergency procedures including:

• Needle Cricothyrotomy and transtracheal jet ventilation
• Open Cricothyrotomy
• Needle Thoracostomy
• Chest Tube insertion
• Intraosseous Vascular access
• Pericardiocentesis
• Central line Vascular access, landmark technique
• Ultrasound-guided Central line vascular access
• Crisis Resource Management and cognitive error mitigation

PEMP combines online modules with an intensive immersive hands-on simulation experience that allows for realistic and clinically relevant practice of the procedures followed by integration of the procedures into the overall care of a simulated critically ill child.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care.

SUMMARY

Protecting Patients Through Wildfire Season: What You Need to Know
Tuesday May 28, 2024  |  6:30pm – 8:00pm

Overview

Join us for this free accredited educational session where highly experienced and knowledgeable medical experts will answer your questions and share their knowledge regarding how to address the potential harms of exposure to wildfire smoke.

Skills Gained

As a result of attending this webinar, you will be able to:

• Recognize the known and unknown significant health effects of wildfire smoke
• Identify characteristics that increase susceptibility or vulnerability to health effects
• Understand and apply strategies to empower and protect patients at risk of exposure

Key Speakers

• Panelist: Dr. Stephanie Cleland – PhD, MSPH | Legacy for Airway Health Chair in Promotion of Lung Health; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
• Panelist: Dr. Prabjit Barn – PhD | Environmental Health Scientist, Health Protection, Population & Public Health, Fraser Health
• Panelist: Dr. Eric Coker – PHD, MS | Senior Scientist, Environmental Health Services, BCCDC
• Panelist: Dr. Emily Brigham – MD, MHS | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, UBC
• Panelist: Dr. Angela Yao – Senior Scientist, Environmental Health Service, BCCDC
• Panelist: Dr. John Pawlovich – Rural Family Physician; Director, Rural Education Action Plan; Lead, Real-Time Virtual Support, RCCBC
• Moderator: Dr. Christie Newton – MD, CCFP, FCFP | Associate Professor, Department of Family Practice and Associate Vice President, Health

Connection Details

Prior to the webinar, you will receive an email from UBC CPD with connection details. If you do not receive this email, please check your spam folders. You should add “@ubc.ca” to your safe sender list. If you do not see the connection email please contact cpd.info@ubc.ca.
How to Ask Questions

• The Question & Answer page is OPEN NOW – we encourage you to submit your questions early.
• Go to https://www.sli.do/ and enter the event ID #wildfiresmoke. Or go directly to https://app.sli.do/event/ucwAZdJcxqKKFavnxuhFM9
• Type out your question in the ‘type your question’ field and click ‘SEND’. You will see your question posted and you will be able to review questions that others have asked. Your questions can be asked anonymously, just leave your name out when posting your questions.
• Due to the high volume of questions received during the webinar, please try to avoid asking questions that have already been asked by someone else.
• Up-vote: feel free to click the thumbs-up icon beside the questions you like as this will move those questions to the top of the queue and will increase the likelihood that they will be asked of the panel.
• Questions will be reviewed by the moderator and relayed to the presenters before the session and during the Q&A period.

SUMMARY

Join Emergency Care BC for a discussion with provincial partners about improving the discharge process for emergency patients.

This forum provides a collaborative space to share successful patient discharge practices, initiatives, innovations, and research that may be replicated in your region. Each session will include a featured speaker, followed by a moderated discussion period.

We warmly welcome everyone interested in improving emergency and patient care to attend.

Our Provincial Patient Discharge Quality Improvement Sessions will resume in Fall 2024.

SUMMARY

RIPPL Virtual Learning Sessions
October 1 and 30, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm

RIPPL: Resources for Interdisciplinary Pediatric Practice and Learning is a self-directed interactive learning platform created in partnership
by Child Health BC and BC Children’s Hospital. The platform was informed by a validated provincial pediatric competency framework developed in collaboration with provincial partners. RIPPL enables users to assess and maintain their competencies by accessing resources tailored to their specific role, practice area and service delivery level related to pediatric care.

RIPPL is:

• Anchored in Reconciliation: Supports developing knowledge around fundamental commitments to Indigenous peoples and upholding obligations when supporting children, youth and families.
• Free and Accessible: Available to all health-care providers, including physicians, nurses, allied health professionals and students.
• Self-Directed: Users can self-assess their foundational pediatric knowledge against provincial pediatric competencies.
• Trusted: Informed by best evidence and wise practices.
• Voluntary: Participation is optional. RIPPL is a voluntary learning platform for foundational knowledge.

Download the RIPPL Virtual Session Flyer.

SUMMARY

We are excited to announce that RIPPL: Resources for Interdisciplinary Pediatric Practice and Learning has officially launched.

Clinicians across the province have shared that often it can be challenging to access current, consistent pediatric education resources. RIPPL was developed to bridge this gap. By launching RIPPL, the goal is to help ensure that all health-care providers have access to barrier-free foundational pediatric resources that enhance their ability to deliver consistent, high-quality care to children, youth and families across British Columbia.

The RIPPL team will be hosting 2 virtual interactive lunch hour sessions at 12:00pm on December 12^th, 2024 and January 16^th, 2025, to introduce the platform to interested interdisciplinary health-care providers.

SUMMARY

Friday, June 14, 2024  |  12:00 – 13:00 pm

Join Dr. Kevin Fairbairn on Friday, June 14, 2024, for a talk on Adult Abdomen Ultrasound.

SUMMARY

Friday, May 10, 2024  |  12:00 – 1:00 pm

Join Dr. Tracy Morton on Friday, May 10, 2024, for a talk on deep DVT where he will review venous anatomy of the legs and positive and negative findings for deep vein thrombosis using POCUS.

SUMMARY

Friday November 15, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Join Dr. Oron Frenkel on Friday, Nov 15, 2024, for a talk on POCUS for Head and Neck.

Dr. Oron Frenkel

Oron Frenkel trained in emergency medicine and completed a Fellowship in Point-of-Care Ultrasound at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. Oron used to run the Fellowship program for UBC out of St. Paul’s Hospital, direct their local ultrasound program, and act as the clinical lead for the multimillion dollar INPoCUS Digital Supercluster project. He now enjoys supplementing his time in the city with rural locums across BC and back into rural Washington state.

SUMMARY

Friday December 13, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Join Dr. Tracy Morton on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, for a talk on Intro to Cardiac for POCUS.

SUMMARY

Friday October 25, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Join Dr. Kevin Fairbairn on Friday, Oct 25, 2024, for a talk on POCUS for Lung.

Learning Objectives to come!

SUMMARY

Thursday October 24, 2024 | 7:45 – 9:00 am

Rural Rounds provides rural healthcare providers with up-to-date and relevant medical education through interactive Zoom presentations. If you practice or support rural communities in British Columbia, you are encouraged to join these engaging sessions!

*NEW* Join the Zoom session early! Grab your coffee and log in at 7:45 a.m. (PT) to connect with your fellow rural healthcare colleagues. This is a great opportunity to introduce yourself, chat, and build community before we begin. The session will officially start at 8:00 a.m. and joining early for social time with colleagues is completely optional!

Key Speakers

Dr. Lauren Galbraith is a family physician who has been practicing in the Kootenays (unceded, traditional territory of the Sinixt, Ktunaxa and Sylix nations) in what is known as Nelson since 2018. She completed medical school at UBC’s Northern Medical Program and did a rural family medicine residency through the University of Alberta’s Grande Prairie program. She completed UBC’s Enhanced Skills in Gender and sexual health in 2019 and now has a full-service family practice with an interest in gender-affirming care, contraception, and sexual health.

Dr. Ingrid Cosio has been a family physician in Prince George for 20 years. She is the Physician Lead for the Northern Gender Clinic (NGC), which provides gender-affirming care to BC’s Northerners, and co-lead of a local advocacy group called Physicians for Diversity & Inclusion. Dr. Cosio is actively involved in UBC’s Family Medicine residency training program and provides training opportunities in gender-affirming care to UNBC Medical Students and UBC Family Medicine, Psychiatry & Pediatrics residents at the NGC.

Dr. Sharmeen Mazaheri has been a rural family physician for 18 years, with a focus on gender-affirming care for youth and adults over the past decade. She has worked with Foundry and serves as the Medical Lead for North Island Gender Care. Additionally, she is a RACE Line consultant, a Transcare BC Clinical Mentor, and a surgical assessor as well as a consultant for the Yukon. Dr. Mazaheri is also a Doctors of BC & UBC CPD Rural Peer Mentor and a UBC Family Medicine Clinical Instructor. She is deeply grateful to live and work on the unceded traditional territory of the K’omoks First Nation.

SUMMARY

Thursday November 21, 2024 | 7:45 – 9:00 am

Rural Rounds provides rural healthcare providers with up-to-date and relevant medical education through interactive Zoom presentations. If you practice or support rural communities in British Columbia, you are encouraged to join these engaging sessions!

*NEW* Join the Zoom session early! Grab your coffee and log in at 7:45 a.m. (PT) to connect with your fellow rural healthcare colleagues. This is a great opportunity to introduce yourself, chat, and build community before we begin. The session will officially start at 8:00 a.m., and joining early for social time with colleagues is completely optional!

Key Speakers

Dr. Virginia Robinson started her career as a full-service family doctor in Northern Quebec in the community of Chisasibi. She subsequently held positions as the Chief of Emergency at Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario. As a mountaineer, she developed an interest in high-altitude medicine and served as the physician on the Canadian Everest 2000 Expedition. For the last 20 years, she has worked in Fernie, BC. She has a passion for the use of ultrasound in rural and remote communities to improve access and quality of care for patients. Virginia has been teaching ultrasound to students, residents, and physicians for the last 10 years and is currently also a professor for the Rural Ultrasound Fellowship. She is the POCUS lead for the Rural Coordination Centre of BC and the medical lead for the UBC OB Hands-On Ultrasound Course (HOUSE OB).

Dr. Kevin Fairbairn completed his family practice residency with UBC at the Chilliwack site, an EM plus 1 at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, and followed that up with a PoCUS fellowship at UBC. Dr. Fairbairn now works in the emergency department in Nelson, BC, and is currently rehabbing from a wide range of injuries associated with having 2 small children.

SUMMARY

Thursday December 12, 2024 | 7:45 – 9:00 am

Rural Rounds provides rural healthcare providers with up-to-date and relevant medical education through interactive Zoom presentations. If you practice or support rural communities in British Columbia, you are encouraged to join these engaging sessions!

*NEW* Join the Zoom session early! Grab your coffee and log in at 7:45 a.m. (PT) to connect with your fellow rural healthcare colleagues. This is a great opportunity to introduce yourself, chat, and build community before we begin. The session will officially start at 8:00 a.m., and joining early for social time with colleagues is completely optional!

Key Speakers

Dr. Doug Brown

SUMMARY

With expanding access to Provincial eHealth viewers, private practice medical clinics in British Columbia are expected to implement appropriate security practices to ensure private patient information and the medical practice are protected. Designed in partnership with the Doctors Technology Office, this introductory course supports medical clinics to improve their current security practices. Learn how to create a culture of security, better train your staff, limit the risk of a cyberattack, and protect the privacy of patient information through this interactive one-hour online module.

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SUMMARY

Pediatric Critical Care Learning Sessions:
SEEING IS BELIEVING – Using video consults in assessing sick children

Friday, November 15 | 1:00-2:00 pm

Download the November Flyer here

Learning Objectives: 

• What is the differential diagnosis for a sick neonate? What diagnoses must we consider, and how can we differentiate between them clinically? (again, in the context of a rural site with lower resources as a background).
• Discuss resources available both to physician and nursing staff when a critically ill child presents to care at a rural site.
• Initial resuscitation / management of patient presenting with coarctation of the aorta and hemodynamic instability.

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About the PCCL Sessions: 

• When – 3rd Friday of every month 1:00 to 2:00 pm via Zoom
• What – A de-identified case presented by providers from a range of communities across BC
• How – The PICU team at BCCH will facilitate the interactive discussion

SUMMARY

The SEMP course allows physicians providing emergency care to acquire, review and practice their skill in essential life-saving emergency procedures including:

• • Needle cricothyrotomy and transtracheal jet ventilation
  • Open cricothyrotomy
  • Needle thoracostomy
  • Guide-wire chest tube placement
  • Intraosseous vascular access in adults
  • Intraosseous vascular access in children
  • Pericardiocentesis
  • Central line vascular access, landmark technique
  • Ultrasound-guided central line vascular access

• Crisis resource management and strategies to reduce cognitive errors.

Course Format: Hands-on simulation course using highly-realistic task-trainers and human patient simulators combined with pre-course online modules. 24 participants maximum.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care; also open to interprofessional teams of physicians, nurses, paramedics, and respiratory therapists

For information on registration, visit the UBC CPD SEMP page.

SUMMARY

Monday, June 24, 2024 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm

This is a free accredited session on supporting children and youth who use substances through implementation of a brand new clinical care pathway. Case examples and Pathways BC navigation will be explored as well as resources for patients and families.

Skills Gained

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate proficiency in navigating CYSU clinical care pathway in Pathways BC
• Improve confidence in managing patients with CYSU
• Utilize CYSU care pathway in practice

SUMMARY

Emergency Department Grand Rounds
Tick Talk – The Changing Landscape of Tick-Borne Infectious Diseases in Canada
September 26th,2024 | 7:30 – 8:30 am PST

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Review Ticks and their presentations to ER
2. Discuss Lyme, Anaplasmosis, Powassin, Babesiosis, RMSF
3. Debunk several myths about ticks and Lyme

Presenter: Dr. Sean Moore is an emergency physician and Chief of Staff at Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora Ontario, a hotbed of Lyme and Anaplasmosis. He is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Northern Medical Director at Ornge, an avid gardener and beekeeper.

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SUMMARY

New Resources from the Pediatric CC Project:
Transforming Pediatric Critical Care in BC
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | 12:00 pm (noon)

This session organized by the pediatric critical care project team aims to:

• Present the Pediatric Critical Care web section
• Introduce Zoom video conferencing for Transport Consultations

Attendees will:

• Learn to navigate the new critical care section, including “In a hurry” resources for emergency situations
• Learn about the Zoom video conferencing workflow
• Have an opportunity to ask questions to the PICU team

Download the webinar flyer here.

SUMMARY

The use of bedside ultrasound by clinicians to guide invasive emergency and critical care procedures has been proven to improve success and reduce complications and is rapidly becoming established as the standard of care. UGEMP provides an opportunity to acquire and maintain the skills required to perform such procedures using Ultrasound-guidance.

Human models will allow for demonstration of human surface landmarks, real-time ultrasound image generation, and human ultrasound anatomy. Ultrasoundable task-trainers that simulate the tactile feel of human tissue will allow for the repeated practice of invasive procedures without harming the human models. The instructors will demonstrate the procedure and will supervise the learners’ performance of the procedures in small groups. Formative evaluation in the form of immediate feedback provided by the instructor will help the learners to monitor their progress and guide their learning.

Skills:

• Thoracentesis
• Chest Tube Placement, open and Seldinger techniques
• Central venous line placement
• Peripheral intravenous line placement
• Pericardiocentesis
• Abscess drainage
• Subcutaneous Foreign Body localization and removal
• Arthrocentesis
• Lumbar Puncture
• Paracentesis

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care

For information on registration, visit the UBC CPD UGEMP page.

SUMMARY

BC Virtual Health Grand Rounds: Virtual Geriatric Care – Pearls in Dementia Care
Friday, May 24, 2024  |  8:00 – 9:00 am

This session will feature Dr. Amanda Hill who will speak on the topic of Virtual Geriatric Care – Pearls in Dementia Care.

Skills Gained

• Demonstrate the strategies for managing risk in dementia care
• Summarize psychiatric features of dementia
• Examine the impact of caregiver support and planning

ABOUT THE ROUNDS
Virtual Health Grand Rounds is a quarterly provincial rounds series for health-care professionals, health administrators, and IT colleagues to explore transformative, technology-enabled health-care delivery. The rounds spark discussion about the risks, benefits, and considerations for adopting technology to support patient-centered care.