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CanMEDS Rounds

CanMEDS RoundsÌý(previously known as combined subspecialty CanMEDS non-medical expert rounds)ÌýareÌýtwo-hour sessions held 6-7 times each academic year on Wednesday afternoons or Thursday mornings. These rounds are offered to all subspecialty residency program and fellowship program trainees.

Please noteÌýCanMEDS Rounds will be held through Zoom until further notice. Calendar invites with the zoom link are sent to residents and fellows one month beforeÌýeach session.

For more information please contact peds.admin [at] muhc.mcgill.ca (Michelle Kim), Senior Administrative Coordinator.

Upcoming CanMEDS Rounds

DATE / TIME TITLE /ÌýSPEAKER CANMEDS ROLE(S) CANMEDS TOPICS to cover

November 27th,Ìý2024Ìý
13:00pm ~14:00am

Lifelong Learning: from andragogy to maintenance of certification

Dr. Mylène Dandavino

Medical Expert
Leader
Scholar
Professional

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-ÌýDiscuss principles behind effective lifelong learning
- Understand basic principles of andragogy
- Discover own preferred learning styleÌý
-ÌýUnderstand maintenance of certification process
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November 27th, 2024
14:15pmÌý~15:45pm

Differential Medical Treatment by Race or Ethnicity: First Do No Harm

ÌýDr. Jay Kaufman

Leader
Communicator
HealthÌýAdvocate
Professional

- What are race and ethnicity variables and how are they typically used in clinical and etiological research
- Critique of some common study designs for interpreting disparities etiologically
- Applying principles of evidence-based medicine to use of race and ethnicity variables in clinical decision-making

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Previous CanMEDS Rounds

Date/Time/Location Title / SPeaker(s) CanMEDS Role(S) CanMEDS Topic(s)

April, 18th, 2024
10:40 - 12:40

Fatigue Risk Management in Medical Practice

Lisanne Tremblay(psychotherapist)

Leader
Health Advocate
Collaborator

- Understanding Fatigue
- Managing fatigue

April, 18th, 2024
9:30~10:30

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Quality Improvement Methods

Dr. Marie-Astrid Lefebvre

Leader
Health Advocate
Professional

- List the principles of the Model for Improvement
- List the main steps involved in a quality improvement project
- Know how to use various tools to diagnose a quality or safety problem, develop change ideas and graph measures of improvement.

November 9th, 2023
11:10am ~12:40am

Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada

Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain

Leader
Health Advocate
Collaborator

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- Understanding the structure, function, and points of influence of the healthcare system, including the role of physicians within this system
- Describe the key issues currently under debate regarding changes in the Canadian health care system, indicating how these changes might offset societal health outcomes and how pediatric subspecialists can advocate to decrease the burden of illness at a community or societal level

November 9th, 2023
9:30am ~11:00am

Practice Management - The magical compounding effects of efficiency - Everyone wins!

Dr. Benjamin Burko

Leader
Health Advocate
Professional

- The benefits of being clinically efficient
- How to create clinical efficiency
- How to overcome the barriers to efficiency
May 24th, 2023
3pm-4pm

How I Can Be My Own Ethics Consultant

Dr. Eugene Bereza

Leader
Health Advocate
Professional

Medical Ethics: ethical issues arising in patient care and medical decision making, and ethical and professional issues inherent in health advocacy: altruism, social justice, autonomy, integrity, and idealism

April 20th, 2023, 10am

Understanding health care system

Dr. Adrian Dancea

Leader
Health
Advocate
Collaborator

Understanding the structure, function, and points of influence of the healthcare system, including the role of physicians within this system

Describe the key issues currently under debate regarding changes in the Canadian health care system, indicating how these changes might affect societal health outcomes and how pediatric subspecialists can advocate to decrease the burden of illness at a community or societal level

March 15th, 2023,
2 - 4pm

Indigenous Child Health: History, Colonization and Social Determinants of Health

Dr. Dr. Aisling O’Gorman &
Miss. Tealey Normandin

Health Advocate
Professional
Medical Expert

Indigenous Child Health: History, Colonization and Social Determinants of Health

February 16th, 2023, 10am

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement at the MCH: What does it mean for you?

Dr. Nadine Korah

Leader
Health
Advocate

Patient safety, adverse events, and medical errors

December 1st, 2022, 10am

Getting involved in Health Advocacy

Dr. Sarah Campillo

Health advocacy

How physicians can be involved in health advocacy

November 9th, 2022, 2pm

Personal Effectiveness

Dr. Preetha Krishnamoorthy

Communicator
Collaborator

Personal Effectiveness

October 19th, 2022, 2-4pm

Indigenous Child and Youth Health in Canada

Dr. Aisling O’Gorman
Miss. Tealey Normandin

Leader
Health
Advocate

Indigenous Child and Youth Health in Canada: Demographics, Data and Federal Government Relations.

June 1, 2022
2:00-4:00pm

Transition to Practice

Dr. Nina Nouraeyan
Neonatologist, Montreal Children's Hospital
Neonatology Program Director and Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

Leader
Scholar
Professional
Health Advocate

Managing the transition from fellow to staff

March 17, 2022
10:00-11:00am

CV Workshop

Gabriel Altit, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FAAP
Neonatologist, Montreal Children's Hospital, MUHC
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
Associate Member in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Associate Member in the Division of Experimental Medicine
Program Director - Neonatal Hemodynamics Clinical Research Fellowship Program

Professional

Developing your CV and teaching dossier

February 10, 2022
9:00-10:00am

Time Management

Dr. Hema Patel, MD, FRCPC, MSc (Clin Epi)
Director, Division of General Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

Objectives:
Setting priorities and managing time to balance patient care, practice requirements, outside activities and personal life while ensuring personal health/physician wellness.

Leader Professional

Time Management: Setting priorities and managing time to balance patient care, practice requirements, outside activities and personal life

Individual registration dates with CMPA.

Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA)

For more information and the registration link please contact peds.admin [at] muhc.mcgill.ca

Professional

Legal responsibilities of pediatric medical subspecialty physicians including:

  • legal implications of parent
  • child relationships and legal guardianship
  • limits of patient confidentiality as defined by practice standards and the law
  • liability and medical malpractice
  • how to avoid litigation
December 8, 2021
3:00-5:00pm

How I Can Be My Own Ethics Consultant

Dr. Eugene Bereza
Family Physician, CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre (MUHC), the Montreal Neurological Institute
Associate Professor, Biomedical Ethics Unit, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

Objectives:
1. To appreciate and apply a methodology in applied clinical ethics analysis
2. To appreciate the mandate and scope of MUHC clinical ethics consultants
3. To re-orient the balance in shared decision-making in clinical pediatrics

Health Advocate
Leader
Professional

Medical Ethics: Ethical issues arising in patient care and medical decision making;
Ethical and professional issues inherent in health advocacy: altruism, social justice, autonomy, integrity, and idealism

November 25, 2021
10:30-12:00pm

    Maintaining Resilience: Skills to Enhance Well-being

    Martha Chamodraka, Ph.D., OPQ (Psychologist)
    PGME Wellness Consultant

    Leader
    Professional

    Ensuring personal health/physician wellness

    October 20, 2021
    3:00-4:30pm

    Fighting for A Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada

    Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain
    Pediatric Emergency Physician, Montreal Children's Hospital
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

    Objectives:
    1. Summarize how medical colonialism and anti-Indigenous systemic racism persist in healthcare provision today by using the 2018 #aHand2Hold advocacy campaign as a case-study
    2. Review the historical context of genocidal medical violence against Indigenous children in Canada, including its implications on healthcare education, research and clinical care today
    3. Identify the role that pediatric trainees can play to engage in decolonizing healthcare using a social-justice approach

    Leader
    Health Advocate
    Collaborator

    Understanding the structure, function, and points of influence of the healthcare system, including the role of physicians within this system.

    Describe the key issues currently under debate regarding changes in the Canadian health care system, indicating how these changes might affect societal health outcomes and how pediatric subspecialists can advocate to decrease the burden of illness at a community or societal level

    September 15, 2021
    1:30-3:00pm

    Lifelong Learning: Learning Styles and CME Credits

    Mylène Dandavino, MDCM MSc MHPE FRCPC
    Program Head, Medical Inpatient Services, Montreal Children’s Hospital
    Associate Professor, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Program Director, Academic Pediatrics Fellowship, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

    Scholar Ìý

    August 4, 2021
    3:00-5:00pm

    Introduction to Competence By Design (CBD)

    Dr. Fernanda Claudio and Dr. Carlos Gomez-Garibello
    Accreditation & Education Quality Improvement, Postgraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

    Jean-François Gravel
    Medical Education Systems, Postgraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

    Ìý Ìý

    May 27, 2021
    10:00-11:00

    Quality Improvement Methods

    Dr. Marie-Astrid Lefebvre
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist, Montreal Children's Hospital, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre

    Objectives:
    1. List the principles of the Model for Improvement
    2. List the main steps involved in a quality improvement project
    3. Know how to use various tools to diagnose a quality or safety problem, develop change ideas and graph measures of improvement

    Leader;
    Scholar;
    Professional;
    Health Advocate
    Quality improvement/Quality assurance
    April 7, 2021
    15:00-17:00
    Clinical Office Management

    Dr. Benjamin Burko

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Medical Director, Tiny Tots Medical Centre

    Objectives:
    1. To explore the different ways that physicians are remunerated
    2. To explore the different practice arrangements that exist
    3, Managing Employees
    4. Budgeting a clinical unit/office
    5. Leases and Partnership agreements
    6. Risk Management in practice
    7. To help physicians identify what practice type will align with their remuneration, lifestyle and practice style goals.
    Leader The principles of health care financing: physician remuneration and billing;
    budgeting and organizational funding;
    Managing a practice, including finances and human resources
    March 10, 2021
    14:00-15:00
    Differential Treatment in Medical Practice: Racism Without Racists

    Dr. Jay S. Kaufman, Ph.D.

    Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

    Objectives:
    1. Consider formal definitions for discrimination in medical treatment that account for covariates;
    2. Discuss various study designs for detecting discrimination in relation to conscious and unconscious bias, and considering the sources of this bias;
    3. Evaluate an example one common medical algorithm in kidney disease epidemiology to consider whether it is rational or ethical.
    Health Leader;
    Advocate Professional
    Medical Ethics: Ethical issues arising in patient care and medical decision making;
    Ethical and professional issues inherent in health advocacy: altruism, social justice, autonomy, integrity, and idealism
    February 18, 2021
    9:30-11:30

    Patient Safety and Quality Improvement at the MCH: What does it mean for you?

    Dr. Nadine Korah
    Assistant Professor, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Attending Physician, General Pediatrics, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Objectives:
    1. Understand the historical context and the key elements of patient safety.
    2. Discuss tools and strategies that exist to improve communication in healthcare.
    3. Review and practice Disclosure of safety events
    4. Introduce CQI (continuous quality improvement) methodology.

    Leader Health Advocate, Patient safety, adverse events, and medical errors
    December 16, 2020
    14:00-15:00

    Getting involved in Health Advocacy

    Dr. Sarah Campillo

    Pediatric Rheumatologist, Montreal Children's Hospital
    Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

    Health Advocacy How physicians can be involved in health advocacy
    November 11, 2020
    15:00-17:00

    Direct Observation Assessment and Feedback

    Dr. Evelyn Constantin
    Associate Professor, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatrician, General Pediatrics, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Dr. Preetha Krishnamoothy
    Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatric Endocrinologist, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Scholar How to provide effective feedback;
    Incorporating the principles of ethics with respect to teaching

    October 14, 2020
    13:00-14:30

    Social Determinants of Health: Understanding How Social and Economic Factors Impact Health Outcomes

    Dr. Giuseppina Di Meglio
    Associate Professor, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Adolescent Medicine Specialist, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Leader;
    Health advocate
    Understanding determinants of health among the pediatric population, including barriers to access care and resources
    CANCELLED
    May 2020

    Dr. Richard Gosselin, MD
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Neonatologist, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Dr. Nina Nouraeyan, MD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Neonatologist, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Title and objectives to be announced

    Health Advocate
    Leader
    Scholar
    Transition from Fellow to Staff
    CANCELLED
    April 2020

    Dr. Benjamin Burko
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Medical Director, Tiny Tots Medical Centre

    Clinical Office Management

    Objectives:
    1. To explore the different ways that physicians are remunerated
    2. To explore the different practice arrangements that exist
    3, Managing Employees
    4. Budgeting a clinical unit/office
    5. Leases and Partnership agreements
    6. Risk Management in practice
    7. To help physicians identify what practice type will align with their remuneration, lifestyle and practice style goals.

    Leader Finance

    CANCELLED
    March 2020

    Dr. Jay S. Kaufman, Ph.D.
    Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

    Differential Treatment in Medical Practice: Racism Without Racists

    Objectives: TBA

    Ìý Ìý
    February 26, 2020
    14:00-16:00
    B.02.6851

    Dr. Hema Patel, MD, FRCPC
    Pediatrician and Director, Complex Care Service, Montreal Children's Hospital
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ

    Time Management

    Objectives:
    Setting priorities and managing time to balance patient care, practice requirements, outside activities and personal life while ensuring personal health/physician wellness.

    Leader
    Professional
    Time Management
    Personal Wellness
    January 29, 2020
    15:00-16:00
    B.02.6851

    Dr. Majd Mustafa

    FMRQ 2019-2020 Information Tour on Physician Resources for Medical Residents and Specialties

    Ìý Ìý
    January 22, 2020
    12:30-16:30
    Room B.08.3019

    Camara Van Breeman, RN, MN, CHPCN(C), NP(F)
    Nurse Practitioner (Family), Canuck Place Children's Hospice, at the BC Children's Hospital

    Serious Illness Conversation

    Ìý Ìý
    October 30, 2019
    15:00-17:00
    B.02.6851

    Dr. Benjamin Burko
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Medical Director, Tiny Tots Medical Centre

    Efficiency in the Clinical Setting

    Objectives:
    1. To understand how physicians allocate time both consciously and unconsciously
    2. To understand the impact of enhanced efficiency on Patient-Care, Waiting Lists, Organizational Functioning and Physician well-being and Remuneration
    3. Multiple concrete strategies and tools for physician efficiency-enhancement will be demonstrated

    Leader Finance
    September 5, 2019
    10:00-12:00
    B.02.6851

    Dr. Preetha Krishnamoothy
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatric Endocrinologist, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Teamwork: Working and Functioning Effectively as a Team

    Collaborator
    Communicator

    Communication with professionals
    June 6, 2019
    9:00-16:00
    B.026645

    Frederic De Civita
    Manager of Admitting and Registration Services, Montreal Children's Hospital
    Assistant to Associate Director General

    Gabrielle Cunningham-Allard
    Research Clerk, Emergency Department, Montreal Children's Hospital

    MCH Lean Yellow Belt

    Health Advocate
    Leader
    Professional
    Scholar
    Quality improvement
    Quality assurance
    May 9, 2019
    11:00-13:00
    B.02.6645

    Dr. Tanya Di Genova
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatric Intensivist, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Dr. Adrian Dancea
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatric Cardiologist, Montreal Children's Hospital

    n/a

    Collaborator
    Health Advocate
    Leader
    Understanding health care system
    April 17, 2019
    13:30-16:00
    D.03.6020

    Marie-Claude Proulx
    Patient and Family Centred Care Coordinator, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Difficult Conversations: Communication 201

    Collaborator
    Communicator
    Communication with patients
    March 6, 2019
    14:00-16:00

    Dr. Nadine Korah
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Attending Physician, General Pediatrics, Montreal Children's Hospital

    n/a

    Health Advocate
    Leader
    Patient Safety
    February 28, 2019
    10:00-12:00

    Dr. Evelyn Constantin
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatrician, General Pediatrics, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Dr. Preetha Krishnamoothy
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatric Endocrinologist, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Direct Observation Assessement and Feedback

    Scholar Providing feedback
    December 12, 2018
    14:00-16:00

    Dr. Aisling O'Gorman
    Faculty Lecturer, Department of Pediatrics, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
    Pediatrician, General Pediatrics, Montreal Children's Hospital

    Cultural Safety and Shared Care with the Northern Module

    Health Advocate
    Leader
    Understanding determinants of health

    Canadian Child Health Clinical Scientist Program Schedule

    All sessions will be held from 1:00-2:00pm via ZOOM. Please contact penny.moutsos [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Penny Moutsos)Ìýto be added to the email list for ZOOM links.Ìý

    2021-2022 CCHCSP Schedule

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