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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate/Full Professor, Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine
View the detailed description here. Applications are invited for the position of Chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. The successful candidate must be eligible for academic...
WEBINAR: Machine Learning to Solve Primary Care Challenges
January 27, 2021 12-1PM (EST) Dr. Anders Lenskjold is a Danish trained physician with clinical experience in Family, Rural, and Emergency Medicine, Trauma, and Orthopedic Surgery. Lenskjold is also working as a Medical Informatics Consultant with research and health...
Using Electronic Medical Record Data for Primary Care Practice Improvement
The Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) works with primary care clinicians (nurse practitioners, family physicians) and their staff to use electronic medical record data for practice quality improvement, in addition to working with other...
Patient & Family Advisors (PFA) and Staff: Finding our Rhythm
Following remarks from Colin Stevenson (NS Health Vice President, Quality & System Performance), join Judy Porter (PFA) and Mike Wheatley (NS Health staff) on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 for a virtual "fireside chat". You will hear about some things that have...
Working Together While Staying Apart: Care Integration in a Brave New World
Virtual Conference | March 8, 2021: 9am-1pm PST | March 9, 2021: 12-4pm PST | Free The UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) is pleased to announce our 33rd annual Health Policy Conference. CHSPR’s long-standing conference promotes discussion...
PIHCIN Learning Series | Session 2: Frailty and Older Adults Primary Health Care in Canada
Our panelists will share about their current projects. 3 presentations will be given, followed by a discussion will all speakers, and Mrs Brenda Andreas, in her role as patient partner. This webinar will highlight issues related to frailty and older adults primary...
SPOR Quebec Training: “Initiation aux étapes d’une revue systématique, Implication des patientes et patients partenaires”
The "Research on health social service, the application and implementation of knowledge" component of the Quebec SPOR Support Unit is inviting you to participate in a training workshop on the implication of patient partners in the conception steps, and the elaboration...
PriCARE Webinar: “Mener un projet de recherche multi-provinces en partenariat avec des patients, l’expérience de l’équipe PriCARE”
This webinar, presented by Catherine Hudon, Véronique Sabourin and Maud-Christine Chouinard, is inspired by the experience of the PriCARE, financed by a CIHR programmatic grant, within the pancanadian PIHCI Network (Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations....
PIHCIN Learning Series | Session 1: Supporting an Innovation Platform for Indigenous Primary Health Care in Alberta
Our panelists will share on the newly launched Indigenous Primary Health Care and Policy Research (IPHCPR) Network based in Alberta which aims to promote a renewed and transformed primary health care system to achieve Indigenous health equity. This presentation will...
Summer Learning Series | Session 7: The Impact of COVID-19 on Primary Care : Research and Practice Innovations in Quebec
Quebec has been the province that has been the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Quebec’s SPOR PIHCI network, Réseau-1 Québec, has responded with a number of initiatives, including funding several practice-based research projects that examine the impact of and...