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CCFP Topic: Smoking Cessation
Written by Sarah Valentine, FM R2 in Victoria, BC Expert Review by Dr Jankowski, Addictions physician in Victoria, BC
CCFP Topic: Mental Competency
Peer-to-Peer Connections in Family Medicine
Hi All, As with all things going on with this podcast and website, I really don’t know what I am doing. But rest assured it is always towards the goal of educating and sharing knowledge amongst the Family Physician community. One way of doing this without me as the middle-person, and slowing things down, isContinue reading “Peer-to-Peer Connections in Family Medicine”
Episode 8: Senior Advocacy
Hosts: Care of the Elderly Dr. Christine Miller & BC Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie Art: Aikansha Chawla Useful Websites & Resources: http://www.seniorsadvocatebc.ca Every Voice Counts LTC report, 2023 https://www.seniorsadvocatebc.ca/osa-reports/every-voice-counts-long-term-care-resident-and-visitor-survey-results-2023/ Billions More Reasons to Care report, 2023 https://www.seniorsadvocatebc.ca/osa-reports/billions-more-reasons-to-care-contracted-long-term-care-funding-review-update/
CCFP Topics: Rash
Written By: Dr Lily Xu, Family Physician Expert Review By: Dr. Mahmoud Andrawis, a derm focused family physician in Bath, Ontario
Episode 6: Consent & Capacity
Episode written & hosted by: Mehar Kang, incoming geriatric psychiatry resident & Natanya Russek, PGY4 geriatric medicine Reviewed by: Art: Aikansha Chawla Useful Websites & Resources: Aid to Capacity Evaluation Tool: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/static-assets/pdf/education-and-events/resident-symposium/aid_to_capacity_evaluation-e.pdf BCMJ, vol. 63 , No. 3 , April 2021 , Pages 106-111 Clinical Articles. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.1023
Episode 7: Delirium
Episode written & hosted by: Mehar Kang, geriatric psychiatry resident & Natanya Russek, PGY4 geriatric medicine Reviewed by: Art: Aikansha Chawla Useful Websites & Resources: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th ed.doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18134doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j2047doi: 10.1503/cmaj.230227doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2018.06.007DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1605501doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.2273doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01723-4doi: 10.1503/cmaj.230227doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2018.06.007
CCFP Topic: Vaginitis
CCFP 105 Topics: Vaginal Bleeding Part 2 – Non-pregnant Patients
CCFP 105 Topics: Vaginal Bleeding – Part 1 – Pregnant Patients
Episode 4: Assessment of Patients with Memory Concerns
Hosts: Care of the Elderly Drs. Christine Miller & Ian Bekker Art: Aikansha Chawla
CCFP Topic: Pneumonia
CCFP Topic: Trauma – Part 2
Authors: Veronica Oczkowski (MS4) and Andrea Brabant (rFM PGY-2) Content Expert and Reviewer: Dr. Matt Strickland Start Time
CCFP Topic: Trauma – Part 1
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than nine people die every minute from injuries or violence. A total of 5.8 million people of all ages and economic groups die every year from unintentional injuries and violence. The burden of injury accounts for 18% of the world’sContinue reading “CCFP Topic: Trauma – Part 1”
Episode 3: BPSD (Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia)
Written By: Christine Miller, COE Resident Review By: Dr. Christian Weins, Psychiatrist, Palliative Care Hosts: Christine Miller, COE Resident & Hannah Dunnigan, Rural Family Medicine Resident Art: as ever by Aikansha Chawla
Episode 2: Parkinson’s Disease Part 2
Written By: Christine Miller, COE Resident Review By: Dr. Keiran Tuck, Neurologist, Movement Disorder Specialist Hosts: Christine Miller, COE Resident & Hannah Dunnigan, Rural Family Medicine Resident Art: as ever by Aikansha Chawla
Episode 1: Parkinson’s Disease Part 1
Written By: Christine Miller, COE Resident Review By: Dr. Allison Nakanishi, Geriatrician Hosts: Christine Miller, COE Resident & Hannah Dunnigan, Rural Family Medicine Resident Art: as ever by Aikansha Chawla
Episode Zero: the gEHriatrician
CCFP 105 Topics: Obesity
Written By: Eleanor Crawfor: GP-Anaesthesia +1 Review By: Thomsen D’hont, Generalist Physician, Yellowknife NWT