Partner Opportunities For Family Doctors

Announcements

• The University of Toronto Department of Family & Community Medicine is collaborating with the Ontario Health Toronto Region and Empower Health to establish a Toronto database of family practitioners to help with locally informed healthcare planning and funding distribution. To participate, email PrimaryCareCensus@empower.ca. More information is available here.

Education

• The Primary Care Clinician Educational Series by the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto is designed to provide primary care clinicians with the knowledge and skills to lead quality improvement work in their practice. The new 1-credit per hour Self-Learning program is certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 6 Mainpro+ credits. 

Feedback

• The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) invites you to share feedback on the following policies: 
  • Draft Policy Open for Consultation – Closing a Medical Practice 
  • Draft Policy Open for Consultation – Delegation of Controlled Acts (targeted changes) 
  • Policy Open for Initial Feedback – Providing Physician Services During Job Actions 
  • Policy Open for Initial Feedback – Public Health Emergencies 
  • Policy Open for Initial Feedback – Uninsured Services: Billing and Block Fees 

Mentorship

• The Ontario Medical Students Association is recruiting physician and resident mentors for their annual mentorship program. This program aims to establish one-on-one relationships between Ontario medical students and physicians/residents based on professional, clinical, and personal interests with the goal of providing direct support and mentorship tailored to students’ goals. To participate, please fill out the following form: OMSA Mentorship Program (2024-2025).

Resources

• The Quality division at Ontario Health has released a continuing education accredited learning module series focusing on quality improvement in primary care to help family physicians and their teams learn essential and new QI concepts using data for QI. Using your data for quality improvement (QI) in primary care – YouTube  
• Ontario Renal Network is transitioning to use the new race free Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) 2021 equation to calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). Read clinician resource and patient resource. 
• New tools for improving the prevention, assessment and management of patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in primary care are available from CEP. Access Best Practices and Telus PS Suite EMR toolkit on the Chronic Non-Cancer Pain topic tool page. 

Surveys

• Researchers at the University of Toronto have partnered with Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to better understand primary care providers’ perspectives in the transition of post-treatment cancer survivors from the cancer system to primary care. The information you provide will be used to identify and develop communication tools and resources to support patients and their PCPs during the transition to follow-up care. Please complete this 5-10 minute online survey here.
• Take part in a three to five-minute, anonymous survey developed by the Infant and Early Mental Health Promotion at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), which will inform the development of future infant and early mental health offerings.

Studies

• Participate in a University of Ottawa study led by Dr. Giorgia Sulis that focuses on family doctors’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and pneumococcal vaccinations for older adults in Ontario and aims to identify barriers to vaccine uptake and improve vaccination rates. To participate in the 10-miniute online survey, or learn more about the project click here.
• Join the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s study that aims to improve family medicine residency. For more information, please contact Dr. Monica Aggarwal.
• Researchers from the Computational Health and Interaction (CHAI) Lab at the University of Toronto are conducting a study on the impact of AI scribes on primary care practices. Learn more here.

Volunteer

• Toronto Metropolitan University is looking for feedback on a framework for a new program entitled, Transition To Practice Pearls for Physicians, aimed at providing physicians with resources around non-clinical topics that optimize practice efficiency, prevent burnout, aid in billing and AI integration in practice, and more. Reviewing the framework will take approximately 10-15 minutes. If interested, please sign up here.