Professional Development and Resources - Oct 2023

Polio

October 24th was World Polio Day. Immunize Canada offers a new factsheet, Polio: What you need to know [PDF], to commonly asked questions about polio: What is polio? What are the symptoms? How is it spread? Who should get immunized? and Are you protected against polio? Immunize Canada invites health care professionals to use this factsheet to get the immunization conversation going with their patients.

SURE Webinar Series: Engaging Young People Who Use Drugs - Cannabis and Beyond

• Nov 7, 2023...

Virtual CME: Ethics Symposium - Health Care System Transformation

Provider

University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development, with the Champlain Centre for Health Care Ethics and The Ottawa Hospital.

Overview

Health equity education sessions, informative panels with exerts, question and answer periods, and case-based learning.

Location / Date / Time

• Virtual Symposium. Access to recorded sessions option.
• November 2-3, 2023 from 9AM - 1PM, VIRTUAL (Eastern Time)

Education Credits

• 7 CFPC Mainpro + Credits | 7 RCPSC Section 1 Hours

Overall Learning...

CME: National Skills Day for Family Physicians, University of Ottawa

Provider

University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development

Overview

Interactive and practical in-person course designed to help family physicians develop and refresh a variety of key procedural and communication skills. Small group sessions at the University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre will allow experts to demonstrate specific skills. Participants will have opportunities to practice skills using models or simulated patients while receiving facilitated instruction and...

GetaKit: An online HIV and STI testing service

GetaKit.ca is a website through which eligible persons in Ottawa can obtain clinically indicated sexually transmitted infection (STI) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing services. This includes at-home HIV self-tests, and requisitions for lab-based testing for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis C, and HIV.

To determine eligibility, patients go to GetaKit.ca and complete a risk assessment, including demographic information, STI/HIV diagnosis and testing history, and sexual and...

Fall/Winter Respiratory Season: Supports from Ontario Health

In anticipation of an increase in rates of respiratory illnesses in the Fall/Winter season, Ontario Health released a memo (Oct. 13, 2023) from Dr. Elizabeth Muggah, Senior Clinical Advisory for Primary Care at Ontario Health, summarizing updates and guidance to support you and your patients. The Ontario Health memo includes links to supports in the following areas: 

• Caring for Patients with COVID-19 and Other Febrile Respiratory Infections 

• COVID-19, RSV and Influenza Vaccination 

• COVID-19 Testing