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. 

Events

  • 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.

Resources

  • 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

  • As part of the Patients Before Paperwork (Pb4P) initiative, Ontario Health is looking to identify opportunities to phase out fax use in Ontario’s health system. Complete this 30-minute survey in English or French by October 18, 2024.
  • 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.

Studies

  • 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.
  • Participate in a CIHR-funded research study that will look at the role primary care plays in managing chronic illness among people living with serious mental illness (SMI). They are recruiting community-based family physicians to describe their experiences. Participants will receive a $120 honorarium for a 60-minute virtual interview. The eligibility criteria is available here. For more information, please contact erandall@uottawa.ca.