SUMMARY

Emergency Department Grand Rounds hosted by the Interior Health Emergency Services Network
Accidental Hypothermia: Building the Chain of Survival
January 30, 2024  |  5:00PM – 6:00PM PST

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Accurately stage, triage and manage accidental hypothermia patients based on the vital signs and level of consciousness.
2. Identify which cold patients in cardiac arrest are unlikely to benefit from resuscitation and which patients may benefit from prolonged resuscitation and rewarming.
3. Select the appropriate warming technique and treatment facility for hypothermic patients.
4. Understand the BC Hypothermia Clinical Practice Guideline and explore the potential for guidelines to improve patient outcome.

Presented by:
Doug Brown , MD, FRCPC
Emergency Physician, RCH Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine

For more information, download the event poster.

SUMMARY

Fri Jan 26 – Sun Jan 28, 2024 | 6:30–8:30 p.m

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?

SUMMARY

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.

REGISTER

SUMMARY

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.

SUMMARY

LAST CHANCE TO ATTEND THIS COURSE!

The APLS course curriculum ends on Nov 30 so this will be one of the last chances to take this course here in the lower mainland!  With a limit of 24 participants, make sure to reserve your spot early! 

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 Nov 25, 2025 at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Please contact UBC CPD for more information: cpd.info@ubc.ca

SUMMARY

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.

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

BC Virtual Health Grand Rounds: AI in Action for Healthcare Providers
Friday, April 12, 2024  |  8:00 – 9:00 am

This session will feature Dr. Daisy Dulay who will speak on the topic of AI in Action for Healthcare Providers.

ABOUT THE ROUNDS
Virtual Health Grand Rounds is a quarterly provincial rounds series for health-care professionals, health administrators, and IT colleagues to explore transformative, technology-enabled health-care delivery. The rounds spark discussion about the risks, benefits, and considerations for adopting technology to support patient-centered care.

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

SUMMARY

Wednesday, November 22, 2023  |  0800–0900 PST

The first quarterly session of this series will feature Dr. Amanda Hill who will speak on the topic of Virtual Geriatric Exams.

SUMMARY

Choosing Wisely Talks – Bronchiolitis: Why Less is Best
January 31, 2024  | 9:00am PT – 10:00pm PT

During the cold and flu season, common viruses like Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) can lead to bronchiolitis, a lung infection primarily affecting children under the age of two. While diagnosis typically relies on physical exams, many children receive unnecessary tests and treatments, like X-rays or antibiotics, in the management of bronchiolitis.

Join Choosing Wisely Talks on January 31 at 9 am PT for a discussion on why less is best when it comes to bronchiolitis. Speakers will share practical guidance in managing bronchiolitis, sharing tools and resources from the recently released Choosing Wisely Canada toolkit.

Speakers:

• Dr. Olivia Ostrow, Pediatrics Lead, Choosing Wisely Canada and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, SickKids Hospital
• Dr. Jennifer Young, Family Physician, and Physician Advisor, College of Family Physicians of Canada

Register here

SUMMARY

Dates

Complete online at your own pace (Self-paced)

 Register 

SUMMARY

Jan. 26, Apr. 26, June 7 (Fridays) | 1–5 p.m. PT | Virtual Series

Overview

UBC Department of Family Practice and UBC CPD are excited to introduce our next CME on the Run! 2023–2024 award-winning program with incredible speakers and popular topics.

The virtual CME on the Run! 2023–2024 is for health-care professionals who want short and focused sessions to keep updated on the latest evidence and best practices in patient care.

Sessions:
Jan. 26 | Psychiatry and Mental Health
April 26 | Dermatology and Allergy
June 7 | Infectious Diseases and Travel

For full agenda, visit UBC CPD.

Register for the full series (21.0 Mainpro+ credits) or per session (3.5 Mainpro+ credits)

ADDED FLEXIBILITY
Get the latest information at your own pace.

SIGN UP FOR THE FULL SERIES and save money! Full series sign up means you get access to all recordings (cost $499 for the series, which is approximate $83/session).

You can also sign up for specific sessions and you will also receive access to those session recordings (cost $99 per session).

Recordings (with speakers’ consent) will be available to watch on-demand until Sept. 6th, 2024 (3 months after the last session). If you missed the live conference and plan on watching the recordings, you may be able to claim self-learning credits: How-to-Claim-Self-Learning-Credits

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

Pediatric Critical Care Learning Sessions:
“Deep Breath: A Very Complicated Pneumonia”

April 19, 2024 | 1:00-2:00 pm

Download the April Flyer here

Learning Objectives: 

• Indication for chest tubes.
• Approach to ventilation in a child with a CT.
• Initial approach to sedation and paralysis in an intubated and ventilated child.

REGISTRATION LINK 

About the PCCL Sessions: 

• When – 3rd Friday of every month 1:00 to 2:00 pm via Zoom
• What – A de-identified case presented by providers from a range of communities across BC
• How – The PICU team at BCCH will facilitate the interactive discussion

SUMMARY

Rural Rounds: Diagnosis and Management of the Acute Stroke in the Rural Setting
Thu Mar 14, 2024  |  0800–0900 PT

Overview
Rural Rounds provides rural healthcare providers with up-to-date and relevant medical education through interactive Zoom presentations. If you practice or support rural communities in British Columbia, you are encouraged to join these engaging sessions!

Key Speakers
Dr. Philip Teal

SUMMARY

Dismantling Colonial Structures in Public Health: The Journeys of two First Nations Women – Jorden Hendry & Eryn Braley
February 29, 2024  |  10:00 – 11:30 am

In this webinar, Eryn and Jorden, two First Nations women and early career health leaders, discuss their journeys throughout higher education in public health – moving from merely surviving within a western institution to thriving with the cultivation of strong, Indigenous networks. They will then discuss the realizations that led to their careers dismantling Indigenous-specific racism in the public health and educational systems.

*The topics covered can often be sensitive or emotionally triggering. Please make sure that you are looking after yourself. If at any point you feel that you need to talk to a friend, Elder, counselor, or family member: don’t hesitate to do so. Check out the UBC Learning Circle Counseling Support Page.

SUMMARY

Rural Rounds – Doctor and Friend: Navigating Care Boundaries in the Rural Setting
Thursday February 8 | 08:00–09:00 PT

Rural Rounds provides rural healthcare providers with up-to-date and relevant medical education through interactive Zoom presentations. If you practice or support rural communities in British Columbia, you are encouraged to join these engaging sessions!

Key Speaker
Dr. Tandi Wilkinson

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.

Information on registration.

SUMMARY

Five Days in May 2024
This year’s events will take place from 12 – 2:30 p.m. every Thursday in May.

Five Days in May is back for its 12th year to showcase research across the province!

B.C.’s health research month is designed to educate, inform, inspire, stimulate, and transform.

Every year, Island Health collaborates with partner organizations to bring together researchers and students, patients and healthcare providers, decision-makers and members of the public to learn, share ideas and spark innovation.

• All events will take place on Thursdays between 12 – 2/2:30 pm via Zoom.
• All events are free and open to anyone.

Details and dates below:

• May 2: Keeping the Golden Years Bright: Enhancing Quality of Life for Seniors
• May 9: Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Future in Health and Research
• May 16: Advancing Medicine and Care in Mental Health
• May 23: Bright Futures: Engaging Youth in Health Research
• May 30: Indigenous-Led Health Research: Fostering Wellness, Strengthening Knowledge

For more information, visit https://www.islandhealth.ca/research-capacity-building/five-days-may

SUMMARY

SUMMARY

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

FNHA’s Primary Care Vision and Strategy
Date & Time: Monday, December 4, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm PT

The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) will discuss the initiatives and partnerships that are transforming the way primary health care is delivered to Indigenous people in B.C., with a focus on the First Nations-led Primary Health Care Initiative (FNPCI).

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Terri Aldred, Executive Medical Director for Primary Care, First Nations Health Authority
Lisa Montgomery-Reid, Vice President of Regional Operations, First Nations Health Authority
Dr. Michael Dumont, Medical Director, Lu’Ma Medical Centre

For more information, visit the iCON website: https://indigenous.iconproject.org/

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

Improving Emergency Care in BC: An Overview of ECBC
Wednesday, March 13, 2024  |  9:00 am – 10:00 am

Emergency Care BC is a provincially led network that aims to optimize health outcomes, improve the quality and coordination of services, and enhance the experience for patients, families and providers requiring emergency and trauma care within BC.

Learning Objectives

This session will help participants:

• Understand the purpose and goals of ECBC
• Learn about the ECBC Strategic Action Plan Development
• Review the key areas of Provincial Focus
• Become familiar with key projects underway
• Engage in opportunity of questions/discussion

Presenter
Lori Korchinski – Executive Director, Emergency Care BC & Trauma Care, PHSA

Lori completed her BSN in Nursing at the University of Victoria with a background in emergency and trauma nursing. She completed a Master of Arts in Leadership at Royal Roads University and a Certified Health Executive designation at the Canadian College of Health Care Leaders. Previously, Lori was the Operations Director for Emergency, Trauma and Critical Care at Vancouver General Hospital and the Regional Program Director for Emergency and Trauma for Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care. She consistently demonstrates a visionary approach to leadership, strong systems thinking and a commitment to quality.

Locations (in person)

Kelowna – KGH CAC 235
New Westminster – RCH 0026
Victoria – RJH CA 130
Vancouver – DHCC 2263
Vancouver – SPH 1477

Zoom ID: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/93847468390?pwd=ZVNueWxqZHBScWZkc2M0cmFmWXpSQT09

SUMMARY

Indigenous Peoples’ experiences and realities within the Canadian Healthcare system: What’s the impact on health outcomes?
March 21, 2024  |  11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Indigenous peoples have consistently faced health inequities in the Canadian Healthcare system, which have contributed to poorer outcomes. This disparity is still a reality for many Indigenous peoples seeking care. It is important to understand how systemic racism and stereotypes influence the care they receive today. The SBME Indigenous Engagement Committee in collaboration with the UBC Learning Circle will be hosting Indigenous speakers from different backgrounds to share the realities of their experiences in the Canadian Healthcare system. Our goal for this panel is to help spread awareness of existing issues in the healthcare system and discuss actionable steps we can all take towards minimizing the health inequities within the Canadian Healthcare system.

*The topics covered can often be sensitive or emotionally triggering. Please make sure that you are looking after yourself. If at any point you feel that you need to talk to a friend, Elder, counselor, or family member: don’t hesitate to do so. Check out the UBC Learning Circle Counseling Support Page.

SUMMARY

Tuesday, April 9, 2024  |  6:30PM – 8:00PM

Highly experienced and knowledgeable medical experts will answer your questions and share their knowledge regarding alcohol use disorder, new guidelines, and methods of treatment.

As a result of this webinar, learners will be able to:

• Counsel patients on the new recommended alcohol consumption limits and risks
• Prescribe treatment options, including appropriate medication use, for patients with alcohol use disorder
• Manage alcohol use disorder with comorbidities such as anxiety in clinical practice
• Identify available alcohol use disorder resources and supports in BC

Key Speakers

• Panelist: Dr. Julius Elefante – Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Faculty of Medicine; Medical Education Lead, Department of Psychiatry, St. Paul’s Hospital
• Panelist: Dr. Paxton Bach – Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UBC; Addiction Medicine Physician, St. Paul’s Hospital; Co-Medical Director, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
• Panelist: Dr. Alana Hirsh – MD, CCFP(AM)(EM); Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC; Physician at Kilala Lelum Urban Indigenous Health and Healing Cooperative
• Panelist: Dr. Sasha V. Langille-Rowe – MD, CCFP
• Moderator: Dr. Simon Moore – MD, CCFP, FCFP; Clinical Associate Professor, UBC; Urgent Care & Indigenous Family Practice

SUMMARY

Rural Rounds: Managing Young Febrile Infants in the Rural Setting
Thursday December 7, 2023 | 08:00-09:00 PT

Rural Rounds provides rural healthcare providers with up-to-date and relevant medical education through interactive Zoom presentations. If you practice or support rural communities in British Columbia, you are encouraged to join these engaging sessions.

Key Speakers: Dr. Navid Dehghani

SUMMARY

Nawh whu’nus’en – We see in two worlds: Trauma sensitive practices for collectively healing in relationship (Level 1)

* As this course is funded by the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues, we are currently prioritizing registration for rural medical professionals. Please note the registration dates below, click on the dates for additional course details:

Thursday, March 14, 2024  | 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Until March 1, 2024: registration is open for currently practicing medical professionals who serve rural BC.
March 1-14, 2024: general registration (depending on spots availability).

Wednesday, April 3, 2024  | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Until March 19, 2024: registration is open for currently practicing medical professionals who serve rural BC.
March 20 – April 3, 2024: general registration (depending on spots availability).

Monday, June 7, 2024  |  5:30 – 8:30 pm
Until June 2, 2024: registration is open for currently practicing medical professionals who serve rural BC.
June 3-17, 2024: general registration (depending on spots availability).

This course will support health professionals in rural British Columbia to meet new provincial expectations and standards around providing culturally safe care, including the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s new Practice Standard — Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility and Anti-Racism; recommendations expressed in In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in BC Health Care (2020) and  through reports from the Rural Coordination Centre of BC’s Site Visits with Indigenous communities, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action for health.

The curriculum recognizes that health professionals and patients work in relationship, and a trauma-sensitive approach can help to build respectful, trusting relationships and connect with one another in a good way. The learning in this curriculum is directed inwards as well as outwards, inviting participants to learn not only about new approaches to practice, but also about themselves by reflecting on their own experiences of trauma and ways to support their own wellness.

This learning activity is based on a widely accepted understanding that trauma-sensitive practices are the basis for offering culturally-safe and respectful health services for Indigenous relatives. It draws on two-eyed seeing models, weaving together Indigenous ways of knowing with western trauma theory and neuroscience. It blends Dr. Michael Yellowbird’s work around neuro decolonization, Dr. Stephen Porges’ contributions around polyvagal trauma theory, and experiential Indigenous land-based healing practices to highlight the power of ceremony for reclaiming and maintaining wellness in body, mind and spirit.

Skills Gained

• Learn tangible trauma-sensitive practices for offering health care rooted in cultural understanding and safety for Indigenous Peoples
• Strengthen appreciation of ancestral land-based healing modalities that have supported trauma release for millennia
• Understand polyvagal theory and its implications for supporting trauma recovery with Indigenous relatives
• Deepen empathy and co-regulatory skills as a way of dismantling racism in the health care system and contributing to collective healing

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

REGISTER HERE

SUMMARY

• 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

Pediatric Critical Care Learning (PCCL) Sessions bring together providers from across British Columbia to learn from case presentations. The goal is to support the provision of high quality pediatric care utilizing best and wise practices. Providers from all sites are welcome to join and/or submit cases.

ABOUT THE PCCL SESSIONS:

• When – 3rd Friday of every month at 1-2pm
• Who – Provincial and Interdisciplinary
• Where – Virtual (via Zoom)
• What – 2 de-identified cases presented by providers from a range of communities across BC
• How – The PICU team at BCCH will facilitate the interactive discussion

The facilitation team is committed to supporting culturally safe and equitable care. Sessions will not be recorded.

View the program poster here.

Scan this QR Code to register.

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.

SUMMARY

Join Emergency Care BC for a discussion with provincial partners about improving the discharge process for emergency patients.

This forum provides a collaborative space to share successful patient discharge practices, initiatives, innovations, and research that may be replicated in your region. Each session will include a featured speaker, followed by a moderated discussion period.

We warmly welcome everyone interested in improving emergency and patient care to attend.

Next Session:

April 18, 2024  |  2:00-3:00 pm
Topic: Improving Patient Knowledge by Providing Discharge Instructions
Speakers: Jeannette Gordon, IH

Upcoming Session:

May 15, 2024  |  10:30-11:30 am
Topic: Version 3.0: 15 years of web-based patient discharge information
Speakers: Dr. Fred Voon, VIHA

Download the event poster for more information.

SUMMARY

Wednesday, January 10  |  9:00 am – 10:00 am

Learning Objectives

This session will help participants:

• Understand why emergency access block is the #1 priority focus for Canadian emergency departments.
• Understand the root causes of emergency access block, and why attempts to solve this issue have failed.
• Learn the importance of (system level) care accountability, accountability zones, accountability frameworks.
• Understand how and why emergency physicians can lead effective health system change.

Presenter
Grant Innes, MD, FRCP(C), MHSc

Dr Innes did his emergency medicine residency under Peter Rosen in Denver and has worked as an emergency physician in Vancouver and Calgary for 39 years. He was a founding director of Alberta’s Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS), chair of the VCH Emergency Services Council (2002-2008), and EM Department Head for the Calgary Region and University of Calgary (2008-2014). He served on the CAEP Board for eight years, and was the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine from 1998-2007. He has many peer-reviewed publications and invited presentations, and has led numerous ED access and flow initiatives in two provinces. He now works as a rural emergency physician at the South Okanogan Hospital in Oliver BC.

To join:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/93847468390?pwd=ZVNueWxqZHBScWZkc2M0cmFmWXpSQT09
Zoom ID: 93847468390 / Passcode: 468390

SUMMARY

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

Learning Objectives

1. To learn about the history of racism and colonialism in medical research, both nationally and internationally.
2. To appreciate that there is always a cost to knowledge.
3. To understand methods to begin to address historical injustices in medical research and to initiate respectful collaboration.

Presenter

Frank Scheuermeyer, MD MHSc
Clinical Associate Professor and Interim Research Director, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine

Locations (in person):

• Kelowna – KGH – CAC235
• New Westminster – RCH – 017
• Victoria – RJH CA 130
• Vancouver – DHCC 2263
• Vancouver – SPH – LT 1477

Virtual:

https://ubc.zoom.us/j/92014221648
Zoom ID: 92014221648 / Passcode: 221648

SUMMARY

Friday, June 14, 2024  |  12:00 – 13:00 pm

Join Dr. Kevin Fairbairn on Friday, June 14, 2024, for a talk on Adult Abdomen Ultrasound.

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Fri Feb 23, 2024  |  1200-1300 PDT

Key Speakers

DR. VIRGINIA ROBINSON
Virginia Robinson moved to Fernie, BC 20 years ago to ski and mountain bike and never left. She practices maternity and emergency medicine and spends as much time as possible outdoors gardening. Virginia has been using POCUS for over 15 years and teaches both the UBC HOUSE OB and EM courses. She is the rural lead for the Intelligent Network for POCUS and a co-lead of the RCCBC provincial POCUS initiative with Dr. Tracy Morton. As part of her passion for POCUS she is a disciple of “patient-centred” and “closer to home” care.

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Friday, May 10, 2024  |  12:00 – 1:00 pm

Join Dr. Tracy Morton on Friday, May 10, 2024, for a talk on deep DVT where he will review venous anatomy of the legs and positive and negative findings for deep vein thrombosis using POCUS.

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Fri Apr 12, 2024  |  1200-1300 PDT

Join Dr. Francois Louw on Friday, April 12, 2024, for a talk on Hand and Wrist.

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Fri Mar 8, 2024  |  1200–1300 PDT

Join Dr. Tracy Morton on Friday, March 8, 2024, for a POCUS Potpourri Case Review covering a range of applications and conditions.

Key Speakers

DR. TRACY MORTON
Tracy Morton grew up in northern Alberta, and he now lives and works on Haida Gwaii since 2000. He is a father of two boys. Professional interests include emergency, oncology and of course, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) which has made his work managing patients so much easier. He works with RCCBC promoting POCUS education and practice support for rural practitioners in BC. Outside of medicine, he rides bikes, listens to podcasts, meditates, travels and spends time with family.

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Rural POCUS Rounds: Shoulder MSK
Friday, January 26 | 12:00–13:00 PDT 

Join Dr. Oron Fenkel on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, for a talk on POCUS for shoulder MSK.

Key Speaker:

Oron Frenkel trained in emergency medicine and completed a Fellowship in Point-of-Care Ultrasound at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. He escaped the penetrating trauma epidemic in the US to calmer, gentler lands Northwards, where he now continues his mission of PoCUS evangelism. He used to run the Fellowship program for UBC out of St. Paul’s Hospital, direct their local ultrasound program, and acted as the clinical lead for the multimillion dollar INPoCUS Digital Supercluster project. He now enjoys supplementing his time in the city with rural locums across the province and back into rural Washington state.

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Point-of Care Ultrasound for Obstetrical Care

Emergencies in the First Trimester
Date: February 10, 2023 | 1200–1300 PST
Speaker: Dr. Virginia Robinson

Emergencies in the Third Trimester
Date: March 3, 2023 | 1200–1300 PST
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Kotaska

Postpartum Emergencies
Date: March 31, 2023 | 1200–1300 PST
Speaker: Dr. Virginia Robinson

Therapeutic Abortion Management
Date: May 5, 2023 | 1200–1300 PST
Speaker: Dr. Tracy Morton

This series of virtual rounds will be based on rurally focused POCUS topics, learnings and situations. The Rural POCUS Rounds series aims to increase the use of, experience with, and community surrounding point-of-care ultrasound for rural based healthcare providers.

The rounds will seek to:

• improve rural POCUS skills and confidence.
• build a POCUS community of practice including mentoring, and ultimately better patient care.

Each session will include presentation-style learning and time for volunteered case studies. Attendees will have an opportunity to share real-life scans and work through specific scenarios.

Zoom link, and session information will be emailed to those who have registered prior to each session.

SUMMARY

Thursday, April 4, 2024  |  8:00 – 9:00 am

Rural Rounds provides rural healthcare providers with up-to-date and relevant medical education through interactive Zoom presentations. If you practice or support rural communities in British Columbia, you are encouraged to join these engaging sessions!

Key Speakers

Speaker: Hana Lang, RM
Moderator: Dr. Danielle Pichie

SUMMARY

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.

Learn more.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Join us for an engaging session that bridges theory with practice in the fight against sepsis.

This webinar is a must-attend for ED staff seeking to elevate their understanding and management of sepsis through:

• Real-World Cases: Listen to actual sepsis scenarios that demonstrate both challenges and victories in patient care.
• What’s New in Care: Stay ahead of the curve with the latest in sepsis treatment. Angela will share how we can transform patient outcomes.
• What is Coming: Get new updates to the Sepsis Care Toolkit. Discover how these enhancements can empower you and your team with more effective strategies and resources and tell us what you need!

Download the event poster and share!

Join the virtual webinar via Zoom link:
HQBC, CCBC, & ECBC Collaborative Sepsis Webinar

Or you can join the virtual health visit by entering the following info in Zoom:
Meeting ID: 672 0410 4089  /  Password: 043337

Presenter: Dr. Angela Babuk

Angela, a critical care physician focusing on services for under-resourced communities, migrated from Afghanistan and Russia to BC. She earned a biopsychology degree from SFU and an MD from UBC, where she also trained in General Internal Medicine. Angela furthered her education with Critical Care Medicine at University of Calgary, Echocardiography at UBC, and Cardiothoracic Critical Care in Cambridge before practicing in BC. She is a HQBC Clinical Fellow.

Angela works at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and is pursuing a Master of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, focusing on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. She aims to enhance healthcare quality and access through system-level changes driven by solid data. Angela’s goal is to develop a system for identifying and bridging service gaps for critically ill patients in underserved communities, ultimately improving care equity.

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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.

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UBC Department of Emergency Medicine | Provincial Rounds
The Evolving Approach to Febrile Young Infants in the Emergency Department

Wednesday, November 8  |  8:00 am – 9:00 am 

Learning Objectives

This session will:

• Review the evolution of the approach to febrile young infants presenting to the emergency department with a focus on the 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics Guideline update.
• Highlight Canadian challenges and solutions to implementing recent evidence-based guideline changes.
• Discuss the impact of point-of-care viral testing and immunization status on the approach to fever in young infants.

Presenter Bio

Garth Meckler, MD, MSH
Head, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, UBC

Garth is a pediatric emergency physician at BC Children’s Hospital, and a health services and clinical researcher with appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at UBC and a member of the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. His personal research interests include health services, pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and prehospital care, and pediatric migraine, though he has also collaborated on research related to the management of the febrile young infant which he will be speaking with you about today.

Zoom ID
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62895741318?pwd=eUxJVFp6elJTcWRaQ2RTQ2xNRzBoUT09
Zoom ID: 62895741318 / Passcode: 741318

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.

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VGH Trauma Program – Weekly Trauma Rounds
Tuesdays | noon (via Zoom)

November Presentations

Nov 7
Radiology Rounds – Imaging After Damage Control Surgery.
Dr. Mohammad Altayaran, Emergency Trauma Radiology Fellow, VGH

Nov 14
Thoracoabdominal Injuries: Double Jeopardy.
Dr. Valentina Olmedo Prado, Trauma Fellow, VGH

Nov 21
Regional Trauma Rounds – VGH – Trauma Based Massive Hemorrhage Guideline.
Dr. Andrew Shih, Regional Medical Lead, Transfusion Medicine, VCH

Nov 28
Damage Control Approach.
Dr. Aziz AlKanhal, Trauma Fellow, VGH

Download the November flyer here.

Online participants
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/94675834312
Meeting ID: 94675 834312  Passcode: 834312

Telephone Participants
778-907-2071
You will be prompted to enter Zoom Meeting ID 94675834312 then #, passcode 834312 #

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BC Virtual Health Grand Rounds: Virtual Geriatric Care – Pearls in Dementia Care
Friday, May 24, 2024  |  8:00 – 9:00 am

This session will feature Dr. Amanda Hill who will speak on the topic of Virtual Geriatric Care – Pearls in Dementia Care.

Skills Gained

• Demonstrate the strategies for managing risk in dementia care
• Summarize psychiatric features of dementia
• Examine the impact of caregiver support and planning

ABOUT THE ROUNDS
Virtual Health Grand Rounds is a quarterly provincial rounds series for health-care professionals, health administrators, and IT colleagues to explore transformative, technology-enabled health-care delivery. The rounds spark discussion about the risks, benefits, and considerations for adopting technology to support patient-centered care.

SUMMARY

September 13, 2023 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Globally, sepsis is responsible for nearly one in every 5 deaths, and in Canada, sepsis effects 75,000 individuals per year. Sepsis occurs when an infection results in vital organ damage, and any infection can lead to sepsis. Gaining an understanding of sepsis early in your healthcare education is critical to ensuring you are delivering the best possible care for patients with sepsis.

At this event, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from health care providers and sepsis researchers working to improve outcomes for children and adults with sepsis in BC and worldwide, appreciate the gravity of sepsis through the experience of a survivor, and network with like-minded individuals who are passionate about combatting sepsis. Together, we can make a difference and save lives.

More information and full schedule here.