Academic Days

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Academic Days

• Carol Geller MD, CCFP
• Coordinator of Academic Days
• Department of Family Medicine
• University of Ottawa

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Goals

• To complement unit based and core rotation
  teaching
• To help you prepare for the CCFP certification
  exam
• Develop presentation and feedback skills
• The development of lifelong learners and
  physician educators

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Material to be covered

• Departmental Lectures practice management, EBM,
  research and exam preparation sessions
• Rounds City wide, pediatric and resident rounds
• Behavioural medicine
• The rest focused on CFPCs Evaluation
  Objectives for the certificiation in family
  medicine, resident requests and practical skills

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Evaluation Objectives In Family Medicine

• Abdominal Pain 1
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support 2
• Allergy 3
• Anemia 4
• Antibiotics 5
• Anxiety 6
• Asthma 7
• Atrial Fibrillation 8
• Bad News 9
• Behavioural Problems 10
• Breast Lump 11
• Cancer 12
• Chest Pain 13
• Chronic Disease 14 Family Issues 37
• Fatigue 38
• Fever 39
• Fractures 40
• Gastro-intestinal Bleed 41

• Dehydration 22
• Dementia 23
• Depression 24
• Diabetes 25
• Diarrhea 26
• Difficult Patient 27
• Disability 28
• Dizziness 29
• Domestic Violence (Sexual, Physical,
  Psychological) 30
• Dyspepsia 31
• Dysuria 32
• Earache 33
• Eating Disorders 34
• Elderly 35
• Epistaxis 36
• Family Issues 37
• Fatigue 38
• Fever 39

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Evaluative objectives continued

• Infertility 52
• Insomnia 53
• Ischemic Heart Disease 54
• Joint Disorder 55
• Lacerations 56
• Learning 57
• Lifestyle 58
• Loss of Consciousness 59
• Loss of Weight 60
• Low-back Pain 61
• Meningitis 62
• Menopause 63
• Mental Competency 64
• Multiple Medical Problems 65
• Neck Pain 66
• Newborn 67
• Obesity 68
• Osteoporosis 69
• Palliative Care 70

• Substance Abuse 89
• Suicide 90
• Thyroid 91
• Trauma 92
• Travel Medicine 93
• Upper Respiratory Tract Infection 94
• Urinary Tract Infection 95
• Vaginal Bleeding 96
• Vaginitis 97
• Violent/Aggressive Patient 98
• Well-baby Care

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Evaluative Objectives continued

• www.cfpc.ca/local/files/Education/Key20Features.p
  df

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Core Curriculum

• Behavioural Medicine Dr. Dahna Berkson
• Care of the Elderly Drs. Eisener-Parsche and
  Harley
• Palliative Care Dr. Pippa Hall
• SOOs/Sampss Preparation Dr. Kendall Noel
• Womens Health Dr. Christiane Kuntz

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Core Curriculum Continued

• Practice Management Dr. Tom Faloon
• Evidence Based Medicine Dr. Tom Elmslie
• Research Dr. William Hogg

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Presentors

• Physicians Family Physicians and Specialists
• Allied Health Care Professionals Social Workers,
  Pharmacists, Nurses, Nurse Practioners and
  Psychologists

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Attendance

• Professionalism
• -Academic Days are not a day off
• Respect
• -For the presenters who have volunteered
  their time
• -For the family medicine program that
  advocates for
  
  these days on your behalf
• -Services which release you from work to
  attend

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Attendance

• Academic days start at 900 am sharp
• City Wide Rounds start at 800am (attendance is
  optional)
• TWO SIGN IN SHEETS one in the am and one in the
  pm
• Let Melanie Mathieu know at mmathieu_at_scohs.on.ca
  if you will not be present

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Attendance

• Accepted absences
• -on call the night before
• -on a rural rotation or elective away
• -helping your service out with morning rounds
• -ill
• Need to be present for 75 of Academic Days to
  successfully complete program

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Proposed Template for the Day

• City Wide Rounds OPTIONAL (0800-0900)
• Lectures-will likely include 1hr of Behavioural
  Medicine related topic (0900-1100)
• Lunch (1100-1200)
• Paeds. Rounds-teleconferenced from CHEO
  Mandatory (1200-1300)
• Small group learning (ideally) or lectures
  (1300-1500)
• Resident Rounds (1500-1615)

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• The template is subject to change
• The agenda will be sent to you prior to Academic
  Day
• Attempts will be made to get a copy of the
  presentation, including the Resident Rounds, and
  post them on the Academic Day webpage

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Evaluation of Academic Days

• Web One45
• Your feedback is crucial, constructive criticism
  preferred
• Confidential
• Academic Day Committee

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Academic Day Committee

• 2 PGY-1 and PGY-2 representatives ideally along
  with the chief residents
• Meet 3 times per year (Thursday a.m.)

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Resident Rounds

• Resident Rounds
• -3 to 4 X 15 minute presentations by
  residents (12 minutes presentation/3 minutes
  questions)
• -flexible but responsible
• -not the blind leading the blind
• -It is up to you to make it interesting

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Resident Rounds

• -Ideally Case based
• -Provide a few clinical PEARLS
• -Move beyond traditional medical school
  presentation
• -Topics based on current articles in CMAJ,
  Canadian Family Physician and American Family
  Physician
• -You are free to choose your own topic

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Resident Rounds

• Refer to the Academic Day webpage for Resident
  Rounds assignment and general instructions
• If you can not present, you are expected to find
  your own replacement and let Melanie know at
  mmathieu_at_scohs.on.ca
• www.familymedicine.uottawa.ca/eng/AcademicDaySched
  ule.aspx

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Benefits of Being the Tutor

• Teaching resulted in better learning than being
  taught.
• attributable to deeper studying of material
  when preparing to teach.
• The tutee also benefits

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• Can you learn everything in 22 days????

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• NO

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My service put me on call the night before
Academic Day

• Continues to happen despite the department
  sending out notices to all services
• Prior to the rotation
• -inform the service that you can not be on
  call the day before or the day of (Ob-Gyn) of an
  Academic Day

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• On receipt of the call schedule, check that they
  respected your/the programs wishes
• Immediately contact the scheduler if there is an
  error and c.c. email to Lynn Fournier/Melanie
  Mathieu to change the call schedule or leave at
  2300

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Conclusion

• Enjoy (I hope)
• Your feedback is greatly appreciated and has lead
  to many changes in the past