Nov 3-4, 2022  |  5:30pm - 12:00pm

Celebration of Education Scholarship: Educating for Virtual Care

Education Scholarship

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Educating for Virtual Care: Registration is now open for the next Celebration of Education Scholarship event, on November 3 and 4, 2022, presented by the Office of Education Scholarship. As the pandemic has shifted the nature of primary care, this CES day will discuss educating and preparing learners for delivering virtual and hybrid models of care - the good, bad and the ugly!  

PROGRAM

Thursday, Nov. 3

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St.

5:30-7:00 pm

Fireside Chat: Discovering the Virtues of Virtual Care: How Can Digital Tools Help Us Help Patients Better?

Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya, Frigon-Blau Chair in Family Medicine Research, Women’s College Hospital; Senior Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute.

First, digital tools helped us document better while disrupting eye contact between patients and doctors. Then, doctors turned to the telephone to increase access to care at a distance during the pandemic, with no visual contact at all. This talk will not dwell on this disconnect, the fall from grace, and what we have lost in the process. Instead, it will take a hard look at the historical limitations of primary care services, and explore what the range of communication channels that are now available to us can do to improve not only the process, but the outcomes of care.

Objectives: After active engagement in this session, participants will be able to:

  • recognize the limitations of current digital tools and primary care models.
  • consider the full range of communication channels that can be used to improve the core functions of primary care.
  • consider how digital tools can enhance the value of primary care.

Friday, Nov. 4

Virtual

9:00-9:10 am

Welcome and Introductions

 

9:10-10:15 am

Keynote Address: Finding the Invisible: Lessons from Medical Education Research. 

Dr. Anna MacLeod, Professor and Director of Education Research, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University.

The talk will highlight how deliberately attending to some of the taken-for-granted elements of our environments, both learning and clinical, in-person and virtual, provides a rich field for investigation, and offers new ways for us to consider pervasive challenges.  

Objectives: After active engagement in this session, participants will be able to:

  • describe why method and theory matter
  • attune to the invisible architecture in our lives
  • consider how invisible forces influence our environment(s)

 

10:15-10:30 am

BREAK

 

10:30-11:00 am

Panel Discussion - Virtual Care: Trust, Teaching and Person-Centred Approaches

Panelists: Drs. Milena Forte, Batya Grundland, and James Owen

Objectives: After active engagement in this session, participants will be better able to consider:

  • how the virtual context influences the concept of trust
  • application of patient and person-centered care in virtual settings
  • teaching approaches to virtual care

 

11:00-11:15 am

Breakout Group Discussions

 

11:15-11:45 am

Plenary Discussion

 

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Closing Remarks

 

12:00-1:00 pm

LUNCH BREAK

 

1:00-2:00 pm

Art of the Possible Updates: Work-in-progress updates from our Art of the Possible education grant investigators.

Registration is limited to current and former participants of the Art of the Possible education grant program, the Essence course, and Education Scholarship chats, and to OES Team members.

College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+: This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto for up to 4 Mainpro+ credits.

Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya MD, PhD is the Frigon Blau Chair in Family Medicine Research at Women’s College Hospital, and director of the Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care. He is the Scientific lead for the Centre for Digital Health Evaluation and Canadian Network for Digital Health Evaluation. He practices family medicine and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on evaluation of digital tools to enhance primary and integrated care, and works closely with policymakers at the provincial and federal level to support appropriate use of virtual care. He has been a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Commonwealth Fund in New York City and a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Anna MacLeod PhD is Professor and Director of Education Research in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, and the Unit Head for Dalhousie’s Research in Medicine program. Elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars in 2018, Anna is known for her innovative approaches to exploring medical education. She has held uninterrupted Tri-Council funding as Principal Investigator since taking up her faculty position, with more than 2.5 million dollars in funding to support her ethnographic studies of medical education. Anna publishes widely in medical and higher education. Her award-winning contributions are enriching the discourse of medical education, incorporating critical social science perspectives and broadening theory, while making a significant practical contribution to the design and delivery of medical education locally, nationally and around the world.

Dr. Milena Forte is a staff physician at the Mount Sinai Academic Family Health Team and Associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. ​Milena is currently the Postgraduate Lead for the Office of Education Scholarship and the Maternity Care Lead at the DFCM. Her areas of scholarship and academic interest include, professional identity formation, entrustment and maternity care education. She is happily raising 2 teenagers and 3 chickens. 

Dr. Batya Grundland is a family physician and clinical teacher at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.   Her clinical practice includes all ages and stages but has a focus in women’s health and low risk maternity care.  She was a previous site postgraduate program director at Women’s College Hospital and is now the Associate Postgraduate Program Director Curriculum and Remediation for the University of Toronto Family Medicine Residency program.  From a virtual care education perspective, she led the development and implementation of the current UofT family medicine virtual care curriculum and is a co-chair of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Virtual Care Working Group.

Dr. James Owen is a family physician at Unity Health Toronto and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He completed his family medicine residency at St Michael's Hospital. He currently works at the Wellesley-St James Town Health Centre in downtown Toronto. His clinical practice focuses on HIV primary care and prevention, inclusive health care for sexual and gender minorities and other marginalized populations. He is the Year 2 Foundations Director at the Temerty MD Program, and previously held the role of course director for the second-year Complexity and Chronicity course. He is a co-chair of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Virtual Care Working Group.