Events
Practising Well Community of Practice
When your head hurts too much…
Hear from your colleagues about strategies to manage and address different kinds of headaches. Panelists.
Normalize don’t Stigmatize – Let’s talk about Alcohol
Family doctors. The help they need can come from you.
Letting go or living with anxiety
Learn about different anxiety disorders and hear from your colleagues about approaches to caring for patients dealing with anxiety. Panelists.
Grief Medicine: Giving Space for Acknowledging Life’s Losses
Coping with undesired change and loss can be difficult. Join your colleagues to consider and discuss strategies for recognizing and responding to grief and loss, and to learn about support for yourself and your patients.
Supporting Patients Amid an Opioid Epidemic
The ongoing opioid crisis has only gotten worse during the pandemic. Join your fellow family doctors to discuss strategies for managing opioid use by patients, unique issues facing practitioners, and hear about alternatives to regularly prescribed opioids.
Helping Patients Manage Low Back Pain
Low back pain is one of the most common reasons that patients visit their doctor. Yet without effective intervention it can become a chronic condition.
Even short appointments can help with substance use disorders
Family doctors are often the first medical professional that patients turn to when seeking help for a substance use disorder. But there is rarely enough time in a single appointment to provide in-depth counselling.
Helpful strategies to address mental health in children
Assessing a child with a potential mental health issue can be a complex process. Overlapping conditions and misinformation can complicate diagnosis and treatment.
Heal the pain, comfort the patient: Navigating through the diagnosis, treatment and management of neuropathic pain
Do you know how to differentiate between nociceptive and neuropathic pain? Join us as we breakdown the two and identify warning signs to look out for in a pain condition. Discuss treatment options with your fellow family doctors and learn how self-management, mindfulness and meditation can take a patient from a life of pain to one of possibility.
Addressing overwhelm: How to set boundaries and prioritize self over practice
Increased patient expectations and an overwhelming workload are two factors that have contributed to the heightened burnout rate in family medicine.Join your fellow physicians to discuss how self-compassion and setting boundaries can help you take better care of yourself, your peers and your patients.