DFCM Research Rounds

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Dr. Aisha Lofters is a Clinician Scientist and Associate Professor with the DFCM based at Women’s College Hospital. She is the medical director of the Peter Gilgan Centre for Women’s Cancers at Women’s College Hospital and holds a CIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Advancing Health Equity in Cancer Prevention and Screening.

Keynote Presentation: Dr. Aisha Lofters MD, PhD, “Inequities in cancer screening: The persistence of stubborn gaps”

In this presentation, Dr. Lofters will share her epidemiological research describing cancer screening inequities, qualitative research on barriers to screening, and potential solutions, and also facilitate discussion on why numbers still aren't moving.

Presentation: Dr. Neal Belluzzo, MD, CCFP (AM), FCFP, “What are the barriers and facilitators for community‐based family physicians to act as undergraduate medical supervisors in the post‐pandemic context?”

Dr. Neal Belluzzo is a family physician with over 20 years of dedicated service to the HRH community. He completed his medical training at the University of Toronto and McMaster, followed by a robust career in comprehensive family and emergency medicine. Dr. Belluzzo holds an Enhanced Skills Certificate inAddiction Medicine and a Master of Public Health. He also acts as a medical assessor for the CPSO. He is an Assistant Professor at DFCM and is currently the Undergraduate Program Director at HRH, supervising both clerks and residents.

The proposed project is an exploratory interview-based qualitative study looking at the post pandemic perceived barriers and facilitators facing community-based family physicians when supervising undergraduate medical learners in a newly expanded DFCM teaching hospital site . Detailing the various current, real-life challenges and potential facilitators that family physicians perceive as factors when deciding whether to act as community supervisors to undergraduate learners is an essential first step in ensuring ongoing community family medicine representation in undergraduate medical studies.

College of Family Physicians of Canada Mainpro+® - Group Learning (One-credit-per-hour). 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 6.5 Mainpro+® credits*. *This represents total credit count assigned for the entire DFCM Research Rounds series for 2024-2025 academic year. Physicians must claim the number of hours they had actually participated in up to the maximum number of credits assigned.

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Please register by March 7, 2025

Questions?  Contact:  dfcm.research@utoronto.ca