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#AFHTO2022 materials now available to all members
All members can now access 2022 conference resources! Find out more about what your peers are up to below.
Resources
- Opening plenary: Can primary care survive without a team? Can primary care thrive with a team? slides and video
- Closing plenary: The power and pitfalls of resilience (video)
- Slide presentations from the concurrent sessions
- Online gallery of posters presented at the conference
On-Demand Sessions
- Creation and Implementation of a Homebound Vaccination Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
- Implementing Youth Advisory Councils in Primary Care Settings: The Importance of Acknowledging Youth Patient Voices
- “No Side-Effects from This” Implementing a Medication Reconciliation Program Post-Hospital Discharge That is the Best Medicine!
- Managing dementia at home: the Ontario Programs for Sustaining family caregivers
- An Integrated Care Team for Older Adults: Embedding Geriatric Expertise in a FHT
- Healing From The Inside, Out: Trauma Informed Mindfulness Training for PTSD
- Implementation of an Adult ADHD Group through Interprofessional Collaboration on a Family Health Team Improves Functional Outcomes
Is there a doctor on board? #AFHTO2023 help needed
AFHTO offers Mainpro+ accreditation for our annual conference for physicians. To ensure we maintain the standards required, we invite a member physician to take part in ONE meeting in February to provide feedback and input on the themes and format for our 2023 event. We’ll provide the appropriate materials beforehand and will be available to answer any questions you might have. Please email paula.myers@afhto.ca ASAP if you’re interested. Deadline Jan. 25.
Reminder: Lean Sigma Pink Belt for QIDSS
As you may be aware, SRA Academy is offering the Digital Lean Sigma Pink Belt program, a 30-hour skills development program that provides tools to analyze problems and formulate solutions using Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
If QIDSS haven’t already registered, please note that the deadline has been extended to Friday, January 20th. Through a generous partnership with the eHealth Centre of Excellence, there is no charge for the program and registration can be completed here: https://forms.office.com/r/sG7zLuBgpp. Please contact us at improve@afhto.ca if you have any questions.
GoodLife member benefit- 25% off
We know resolutions aren’t everyone’s thing, but enough people have checked in, so we thought we’d remind you- AFHTO members are eligible for a 25% discount on membership types. To take advantage of discounted rates, you need a membership ID assigned by AFHTO. As of Sep. 1, 2022, member IDs are generated upon request. These are sent to GoodLife monthly near the end of the month. To get your ID or be put on the list for one, please email info@afhto.ca.
Member stories
Thames Valley FHT:
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms, and recommendations and more
Recent updates include:
- Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations– Nat Rev Microbiol (2023), Jan. 13, 2023
- Parent handout with acetaminophen and ibuprofen dosing information for kids is now available in French -Unity Health
- Long COVID stemmed from mild cases of COVID-19 in most people, according to a new multicountry study– The Conversation, Jan. 5, 2023
- Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave – Nat Med (2023)., Jan. 2, 2023
- SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy– Nature 612, 758–763 (2022), Dec. 14, 2022
We continue to update multiple pages on our site with resources and news:
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates– the original page, with news and updates. You can find links to related pages here as well.
Seeking physicians for the CANHEART Improving Cholesterol Management Study
Researchers at The Knowledge Translation (KT) Program at St. Michael’s Hospital and Women’s College Hospital are collaborating on a study to improve lipid management and cardiovascular health in Ontario.
The Community Heart Outcomes Improvement and Cholesterol Education Study (CHOICES) is an Ontario research study being conducted in certain health regions in Ontario with higher-than-average rates of cardiovascular disease. The study is being funded as part of Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) and by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). CHOICES will involve implementing a ‘toolbox’ for cholesterol management to inform and empower people when it comes to the appropriate management of their cholesterol and cardiovascular health. The tools within this ‘toolbox’ will be widely distributed in the high-risk health regions, to allow people to work with their primary care physician and share in the decision-making process together.
They’re recruiting physicians to complete a brief 10-minute survey assessing their insights on lipid management practices and the CHOICES materials. Find out more here. If you are interested, please complete the following survey here.
Seeking physician input on relational engagement in primary care
“In a 2017 article in the Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, author Henri Zukier writes, “As the distance between physician and patient has grown, so has the empirical evidence for the inherently relational nature of medicine… The interaction between doctor and patient, like the interaction between body and mind, is increasingly recognized as an inextricable process and as a central component of therapeutic intervention” (p. 2).
Despite this, little to no research exists in which the relational engagement of primary care physicians has been explored. Given this gap in knowledge, as well as the current cultural climate in which physicians are often vilified and a general distrust in the medical profession has arisen, it seems both important and timely to better understand – and be able to communicate with others – how and why physicians approach and participate in relationship with patients as they do.
The purpose of this study, then, is to better understand how physicians operating in the context of primary health care engage relationally with their patients, as such knowledge may contribute much to not only the medical profession but also cultural attitudes more broadly.”
Find out more here. If you have any questions, please contact Aaron Smith at aaronsmith@tyndale.ca or 519-774-4747.
COVID Therapeutics, Jan. 20, 2023
55th in OCFP and UofT’s series “Changing the way we work” on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 7:55-9:15 am. Register here.
Introduction to CARF Network Standards for OHTs, Jan. 24, 2023
CARF Canada is hosting a complimentary webinar to describe the relevance of their Network standards for organizations working in partnership for service delivery. Register here.
OCFP 2023 Family Medicine Summit, Jan. 27-28, 2023
Features two livestream days on Jan 27 & 28, plus additional pre-recorded sessions. Find out more here.
ECHO Ontario Conference 2023, Jan. 27, 2023
Virtual event, titled Integrated Health Systems and the ECHO Model: Lessons Learned in Ontario. Register here.
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