HomePartner Opportunities For Family Doctors

Partner Opportunities For Family Doctors

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.

This year’s OMD Educates: Digital Health Conference will take place on September 12 and 13, 2024 at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Airport and Conference Centre in Toronto. Hear from guest speaker Hon. Jane Philpott, MD, former federal Minister of Health, current Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the School of Medicine for Queen’s University and more. Early bird pricing is available until July 31. Register here.
The inaugural Skin Basics for Primary Care conference will take place on Saturday, October 19 at the Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel in Toronto. More information and registration details are available here.
The 2024 AFHTO Conference “Better Outcomes Together: Empowering Teams For Patient-Centered Care” will take place on October 24-25 in Toronto. Learn more and register.

The Section on General and Family Practice (SGPF) is recruiting for four positions, which will all contribute to the growth and success of the section. Applications are due on Friday, August 16. Learn more and apply here .

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.

Many Canadians do not receive adequate physician and nurse practitioner(NP) home visits near the end of life. The Bruyère Research Institute aims to better understand factors that may be preventing or facilitating physicians’ and NPs’ willingness to provide palliative home visits for adult patients in their last year of life through a study. Family physicians who do and do not provide home visits for adult patients (aged 18+), and are fluent in English, are invited to complete a 15-20 minute online survey here.
Take part in a five-minute, anonymous, bilingual survey developed by the Infant and Early Mental Health Promotion at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), which will inform the development of infant and early mental health resources.
Participate in an anonymous 10-minute survey conducted by Schulich medical students and Dr. Jane Thornton (MD, PhD, CCFP) investigating how family physicians in Canada identify and treat Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) to help guide future medical education.

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.

Health enSuite, a CIHR-funded initiative, is seeking physician support in recruiting patients to trial an eHealth app for insomnia. Physicians will receive a $50 gift card for each patient they recruit and participants will also receive gift cards. More information is available here.