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Join us virtually once again for this annual conference that will emphasize practical, non-clinical knowledge crucial for your career. We will cover reports and forms, real-time virtual supports, medico-legal report writing, physician contracts and more! This conference is designed to help you stay on top of your work and focus on providing excellent patient care. We hope to see you there!

May 28 (Sat) | 7:45am –2:30pm PDT | Virtual Conference

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June 27 & 28 |  8:30am – 5:00pm

ACoRN picks up where the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) leaves off. ACoRN provides the process, tools, skills and knowledge needed to assist in the stabilization of the at-risk and/or unwell newborn.

The purpose of the ACoRN workshop is to help care providers at the bedside to use a consistent systematic approach to answer the following questions:

• How do you identify an infant that is sick or “at-risk”?
• Does the infant require resuscitation at this moment?
• How do you stabilize the infant and initiate on-going care?
• How does working through the primary survey help to identify and prioritize all significant problems?
• How do you identify the likelihood of infection?
• How do you identify ‘all’ important clinical problems and initiate stabilization for each of them?
• How does one enter, work within and exit the various sequences in the algorithm?
• When do you need to consider transferring the infant to a higher level of care?
• What principles should you remember in order to best support the infant, the family and the health care team within which you work?

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The Addiction Care and Treatment Online Course (ACTOC) is a comprehensive 22-module online course for health care providers that diagnose and treat patients with substance use disorders using evidence-based treatments along a continuum of care.

Learners are awarded up to 20.0 Mainpro+/MOC Section 3 credits for completion of the Addiction Care and Treatment Online Certificate and up to 5.0 CNA credits for completion of the Substance Use and Addiction Nursing Certificate.

Although this course is targeted towards health care providers, it is open to the general public. Anyone interested in learning about substance use disorders is encouraged to register for this course.

-Complete online at your own pace (Self-paced)

Acknowledgments:

Designed in partnership by BC Centre for Substance Use, UBC Continuing Professional Development, and UBC School of Nursing.

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Find course dates via Heart & Stroke BC.

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) is a video-based, Instructor-led, advanced course, builds on the foundation of basic life support (BLS) skills. It emphasizes the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR and takes healthcare provider training to the next level ─ highlighting the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes.

• Systematic approach
• High-quality BLS
• Airway management
• Rhythm recognition
• Defibrillation
• Intravenous (IV)/intraosseous (IO) access (information only)
• Use of medications
• Cardioversion
• Transcutaneous pacing
• Team dynamics

Target audience: Healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies.

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Learn to assess and manage critically ill children during the first hours in the emergency department. Participants are recommended to have previously completed at least one PALS or APLS Course successfully.

Learning objective:

• Assess and manage critically-ill children during the first hours in the emergency department
• Detect an imminently toxic child and institute treatment without delay

Skills Learned:

• Assisted and mechanical ventilation
• advanced airway
• vascular access (intraosseous and central)
• chemical/electrical cardioversion

Target audience: physicians who are routinely involved in the care of critically ill or injured children, including emergency room physicians, pediatricians, and senior emergency medicine and pediatric trainees.

Upcoming:

APLS Course will be offered on Oct 29, 2021 at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Course Fee $800. Please contact UBC CPD for more information: cpd.info@ubc.ca

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*2022 DATES*

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) is an international course that teaches participants the basic skills necessary for timely management of traumatic injury. The course includes didactic and practical sessions.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn to identify injuries associated with major trauma, management of skills required for early resuscitation, and treatment of injured patients.

Skills

• Assess the patient’s condition rapidly and accurately
• Resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority
• Determine if the patient’s needs exceed a facility’s capacity
• Arrange appropriately for the patient’s inter-hospital transfer (who, what, when, and how)
• Assure that optimum care is provided and maintained throughout the evaluation, resuscitation, or transfer process

Target Audience

Physicians practicing emergency care.

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Vancouver Coa​stal Health

Below is a list of upcoming ATLS® courses being held at Vancouver General Hospital.

• April 11-12, 2022
• May 16-17, 2022
• June 13-14, 2022
• November 21-22, 2022

Register at https://vghtrauma.vch.ca/education/advanced-trauma-life-support-(atls)

Fraser Health Authority

Below is a list of upcoming ATLS® courses being held at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster.

• April 22-23, 2022
• June 17-18, 2022
• September 9-10, 2022

Register at https://vghtrauma.vch.ca/education/advanced-trauma-life-support-(atls)

2022 ATLS Instructor Courses – Vanco​uver Coastal Health

If you have an interest in becoming an ATLS Instructor, please contact the VGH course coordinator at glen.purcell@vch.ca. If you would like to register for a course, please email us at TraumaEduc@vch.ca.​

• September date tbd

For additional course listings in British Columbia, please visit the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) website. To access a list of the ATLS Coordinators located in Canada, please click here​.​

SUMMARY

The AIME course has been providing valued and practical hands-on airway management learning experiences for clinicians around the world for over 14 years. AIME educators are experienced (and entertaining) clinical instructors who understand the varied work environments of practicing clinicians. Whether you are a physician working in a large, high volume centre or a small remote setting, AIME will provide a practical approach for airway management in emergencies.

Learning Objectives:

• Be more confident and comfortable in making acute care airway management decisions.
• Have acquired a practical staged approach to airway management.
• Be able to choose the most appropriate method of airway management based on a variety of patient presentations.
• Make appropriate choices in the use of pharmacologic agents used to facilitate airway management.
• Know when and how to use various tools and adjuncts for managing the difficult airway.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care.

For information on registration: www.aimeairway.ca

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Dates

Complete online at your own pace (Self-paced)

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Jun 3, 2022 | 1:00pm – 5:00pm | Internal Medicine

Our unique and award-winning series of the 6-half day short snapper style-focused CME on the Run! 2021-2022 is now delivered online only. UBC department of Family Practice and UBC CPD are excited to introduce our next series of lectures and incredible speakers.

Each session will only take up to 3.5 hours on a Friday afternoon!

View the course agenda here.

SUMMARY

The CRISP course is a two-day, high-acuity, high volume critical care training simulation program, designed to allow physicians and other emergency practitioners to acquire, review, and practice their skills in essential life-saving procedures.

The course travels to rural communities and provides a day of procedure training, procedural skills development and ‘actuation’, i.e. putting skills into action, followed by a day of in situ simulation training led by a team of experienced faculty. Participants are placed in interprofessional learning teams to encourage teamwork and communication. The main objective of the course is to bring high-quality simulation and procedural training to rural hospitals and provide an opportunity for emergency teams to practice management of infrequently encountered emergent scenarios.

Target audience: physicians, nurses and other practitioners who participate in patient care in a rural hospital.

For information on registration, please email: cpd@bcemergencynetwork.ca

SUMMARY

Learn to use ultrasound to detect global cardiac activity, pericardial effusions, AAA’s, intra-abdominal hemorrhage and intra-uterine pregnancies.

The course is unique in that it has continually evolved as the instructor team gained insight into the way beginners learn this skill. Numerous techniques were developed to help the learner acquire a basic understanding of ultrasound image generation and interpretation, making the EDE Course the most effective teaching vehicle for this modality.

Although the EDE Course is occasionally offered as part of a conference, it was mainly designed to come to you if there is enough interest in your centre. There are a number of “off-the-shelf” courses; however, groups can also design their own custom course.

Target Audience: physicians practicing emergency care

For information on registration: www.edecourse.com

SUMMARY

The EDTU course is designed to provide physicians with a strong foundation in emergency ultrasound. The course emphasizes hands-on practical instruction to maximize participant learning. This is achieved with one-on-one bedside teaching on live models.

The course is a two-day program and will accommodate twenty learners. It is designed to facilitate the completion of most (if not all) of the required 50 supervised scans in each of the four areas (aorta, cardiac, abdomen, and pelvis). Target audience: Physicians practicing emergency care.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the basics of ultrasound physics, image generation and interpretation, and image artifact.
• Understand the different types of probes
• Complete most (if not all) of required 50 scans
• Generate limited focused images for all the primary applications of EDTU
• Understand the difference between EDTU and a formal ultrasound
• Understand how EDTU is to be used in the clinical assessment of patients and clinical algorithms for patient care.
• Identify anatomic structures on an ultrasound image that are necessary to interpret the primary examinations
• Understand the importance of establishing and maintaining a quality assurance program at your local ED.
• Learn the psychomotor skills necessary to generate accurate ultrasound images
• Understand the indications for and limitations of EDTU.

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FAST Evidence begins with a half‐day, interactive course that teaches physicians how to conduct effective internet searches in order to find credible and evidence‐based medical information from a variety of databases and online sources. Designed for a small group of up to 12 learners, the course is facilitated by two College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC Librarians who provide learners with hands‐on support in a computer lab setting. To support ongoing learning and application, this program also involves post-program activities, including reflection and coaching sessions following the live workshop.

Friday May 27, 2022 | 8:30am – 12:30pm

Prerequisite: General familiarity with a computer (i.e. use of a mouse and limited typing) is required. The in-person workshop will take place in a computer lab, so no need to bring your own device. 

For more information or to register, visit https://ubccpd.ca/learn/learning-activities/course?eventtemplate=80-fast-evidence

SUMMARY

Educate. Inform. Inspire. Stimulate.

Five Days in May is a provincial collaboration between Island Health, First Nations Health Authority, Fraser Health, Interior Health, Northern Health and Vancouver Coastal Health that is designed to educate, inform, inspire and stimulate.

Every year, we bring together researchers and students, patients and health-care providers, decision-makers and members of the public to learn, share ideas and spark innovation. Themes for this year’s event include mental health and substance use, community health, COVID-19, Indigenous health, seniors health, rural health as well as practical skills sessions.

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CAEP is offering a four-hour virtual course covering the core clinical topics in Geriatric Emergency Medicine on Thursday, April 28 at 12:00pm Eastern. The course is highly interactive with ample opportunity for learning from Canadian emergency physicians focussed on geriatric care AND your peers. Registration includes free access to 14 instructional videos covering other Geri EM topics.

Please encourage at least one member from your department to register for this course. It is accredited by both the CFPC and the RCPSC. For more information and to register: https://caep.ca/cpd-courses/geri_em/

Course Director: Dr. Alice Gray

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The Hands-On Ultrasound Education (HOUSE) program gives rural physicians the training and confidence to integrate point-of-care ultrasound into their practice. This customizable, traveling, hands-on ultrasound training program was created for rural physicians.

By providing education that is customized for each community, the program meets the needs of learners with a wide range of pre-existing skills. HOUSE delivers learning in a relaxed and fun environment with an instructor to student ratio of 1:2. To learn more visit: www.house.ubccpd.ca

We offer a large menu of options: choose from acute care, obstetrics, and internal medicine indications, or mix and match.

About the Hands-On Ultrasound Education Program

SUMMARY

The IH Rural Mobile Simulation Program was designed to provide instruction on emergency medicine concepts and to provide an opportunity for rural providers of emergency care to practice potentially life-saving skills. Like emergency medicine, this program is designed to be flexible to varying levels of experience, knowledge, and background. The course facilitators create a non-threatening, informal environment in which emergency care scenarios can be practiced.

With the high‐fidelity human patient simulators, we are able to create close to real life experiences in sites’ own emergency or trauma room, utilizing their supplies, equipment, and staff while building or enhancing relationships within the inter-professional teams.

Skills:

Focus: to enhance medical skills and knowledge, teamwork, and communication by placing more emphasis on learning that involves real‐time assessment and feedback.

• Simulation can be used to improve clinical decision‐making and psychomotor skills (e.g., airway management, trauma, resuscitation) within a multi‐disciplinary environment
• Simulation reduces medical errors through improved teamwork
• Scenarios can be tailored to meet the needs of the learners
• Training can be conducted in a setting that minimizes time pressures present in the clinical environment

Target audience: physicians, RNs, LPNs, RTs, Lab, BCAS, Students, Residents, Managers, and Administrators.

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

These ultrasound modules are intended to provide a further understanding of some of the ultrasound scans performed bedside in the emergency department. This is a pilot project to teach basic ultrasound concepts in an online interactive format.

We want you to think critically about how you might manage a patient with these images generated. The modules are not intended to replace an ultrasound course, nor replace image generation skills. Hands-on practice along with formal instruction is also required.

Modules include:

• Aorta ultrasound
• Ocular ultrasound
• FAST ultrasound
• Lung ultrasound
• Cardiac ultrasound

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Jun 10 (Fri) | 8:30am – 2:30pm

Effective communication between physicians, patients, colleagues and staff has been proven to enhance our healthcare system, improve outcomes and lead to better patient and healthcare practitioner satisfaction.

The Optimizing Communication for Excellence course begins with a one-day workshop, in which participants learn a simple 4-stage framework to navigate difficult conversations. After the workshop, you’ll benefit from a 30-minute personalized coaching call included as part of the course. To support your ongoing learning and practice, you’ll have opportunities to share with peers and program facilitators your insights, successes and challenges in a safe and positive environment.

Beyond general communication skills, this workshop will teach you new approaches to speaking with patients and colleagues, while learning specifically how to navigate difficult conversations.

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• Find BC course dates via Heart & Stroke BC
• Info on 1-day PALS Renewal Course registration via BC Children’s Hospital

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) is a video-based, instructor-led, advanced course, that focuses on a systematic approach to pediatric assessment, basic life support, PALS treatment algorithms, effective resuscitation and team dynamics to improve the quality of care provided to seriously ill or injured children, resulting in improved outcomes.

This course is designed for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the management of respiratory and/or cardiovascular emergencies and cardiopulmonary arrest in pediatric patients, as well as others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

Skills:

• Perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per Heart and Stroke
• Foundation basic life support (BLS) recommendations
• Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
• Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds of recognition
• Apply team dynamics
• Differentiate between respiratory distress and failure
• Perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
• Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
• Perform early interventions for the treatment of shock
• Differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
• Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
• Implement post–cardiac arrest management

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care

SUMMARY

The PATS course is a simulation-based course that has been developed by local trauma experts at BC Children’s Hospital to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the management of trauma in pediatric patients.

PATS makes use of online modules, simulation cases as well as skill stations to provide healthcare providers with high-yield and up-to-date information in a safe learning environment. Local BCCH protocols and resources are also reviewed and emphasized. This one-day course includes the use of expert role-modelling vignettes and hands-on practice. Each participant will be allocated to an interdisciplinary team consisting of physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists.

As there are no didactic lectures provided during the course, prerequisite online modules must be completed in advance. Access the course materials by logging in to the PHSA Learning Hub at http://learninghub.phsa.ca and search for “PATS” or “Pediatric Advanced Trauma Simulation”.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care, ED and ICU RNs, and RTs.

For information on registration, please email: jallaire@cw.bc.ca

SUMMARY

This course is designed to allow physicians to acquire and review their skills in essential life-saving emergency procedures including:

• Needle Cricothyrotomy and transtracheal jet ventilation
• Open Cricothyrotomy
• Needle Thoracostomy
• Chest Tube insertion
• Intraosseous Vascular access
• Pericardiocentesis
• Central line Vascular access, landmark technique
• Ultrasound-guided Central line vascular access
• Crisis Resource Management and cognitive error mitigation

PEMP combines online modules with an intensive immersive hands-on simulation experience that allows for realistic and clinically relevant practice of the procedures followed by integration of the procedures into the overall care of a simulated critically ill child.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care.

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Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am

Presenter: Corinne Hohl, MD FRCP MHSc
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

This presentation will discuss research results from the Canadian COVID-19 Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN) which has been collecting data on COVID-19 tested patients since the start of the pandemic. We will review study results on:

• Treatments, outcomes and health resource utilization across pandemic waves
• The CCEDRRRN COVID-19 mortality score
• The diagnostic testing accuracy of SARS-COV-2 testing in Emergency Departments
• The diagnostic yield of screening admitted patients for SARS-COV-2

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With expanding access to Provincial eHealth viewers, private practice medical clinics in British Columbia are expected to implement appropriate security practices to ensure private patient information and the medical practice are protected. Designed in partnership with the Doctors Technology Office, this introductory course supports medical clinics to improve their current security practices. Learn how to create a culture of security, better train your staff, limit the risk of a cyberattack, and protect the privacy of patient information through this interactive one-hour online module.

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SUMMARY

A one-day simulation-based course involving the team-based resuscitation of critically injured trauma patients. Principles of crisis resource management and resuscitation management priorities and skills will be highlighted, as well as reviewing latest evidence and clinical practice guidelines, taking into account available resources and regional trauma guidelines. Knowledge of ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) based principles are essential and this course will build on the basics of ATLS.

Target Audience: Urban or Rural Emergency physicians, emergency RN’s and RT’s involved in the initial management of severe trauma patients.

For information on registration, please email: cpd@bcemergencynetwork.ca

SUMMARY

The SEMP course allows physicians providing emergency care to acquire, review and practice their skill in essential life-saving emergency procedures including:

• • Needle cricothyrotomy and transtracheal jet ventilation
  • Open cricothyrotomy
  • Needle thoracostomy
  • Guide-wire chest tube placement
  • Intraosseous vascular access in adults
  • Intraosseous vascular access in children
  • Pericardiocentesis
  • Central line vascular access, landmark technique
  • Ultrasound-guided central line vascular access

• Crisis resource management and strategies to reduce cognitive errors.

Course Format: Hands-on simulation course using highly-realistic task-trainers and human patient simulators combined with pre-course online modules. 24 participants maximum.

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care; also open to interprofessional teams of physicians, nurses, paramedics, and respiratory therapists

For information on registration, visit the UBC CPD SEMP page.

SUMMARY

Staying awake in the ED while managing the difficult airway

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 9:00 am – 10:00 am

Learning Objectives

• Understand the role of awake intubation for managing the anatomically and physiologically difficult airway
  Learn an approach in decision making referencing the recently published Canadian Airway Focus Group Guidelines
  Learn an approach to performing an awake intubation
  Be challenged to perform deliberate practice with the goal of making the awake approach a real option in the ED

Presenter:
Dr. George Kovacs, MD, MHPE, FRCP(C)
Professor, Dalhousie University, Departments of Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, and Medical Neuroscience and Division of Medical Education

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SUMMARY

The use of bedside ultrasound by clinicians to guide invasive emergency and critical care procedures has been proven to improve success and reduce complications and is rapidly becoming established as the standard of care. UGEMP provides an opportunity to acquire and maintain the skills required to perform such procedures using Ultrasound-guidance.

Human models will allow for demonstration of human surface landmarks, real-time ultrasound image generation, and human ultrasound anatomy. Ultrasoundable task-trainers that simulate the tactile feel of human tissue will allow for the repeated practice of invasive procedures without harming the human models. The instructors will demonstrate the procedure and will supervise the learners’ performance of the procedures in small groups. Formative evaluation in the form of immediate feedback provided by the instructor will help the learners to monitor their progress and guide their learning.

Skills:

• Thoracentesis
• Chest Tube Placement, open and Seldinger techniques
• Central venous line placement
• Peripheral intravenous line placement
• Pericardiocentesis
• Abscess drainage
• Subcutaneous Foreign Body localization and removal
• Arthrocentesis
• Lumbar Puncture
• Paracentesis

Target audience: physicians practicing emergency care

For information on registration, visit the UBC CPD UGEMP page.