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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE UPDATE | MAY 5, 2021
In this update:
The SHORT Report
May 1 - Doctors Day
Welcome, Farewell & Opportunity
Congratulations!
  • Dr. Jean Gray inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
  • CFMS Culture Changers
  • Upcoming award deadlines

We Need You
  • Department COVID Challenge

Sun Safety
  • Sun Awareness Week in Canada & Melanoma Awareness Month

Nova Scotia Health
  • Senior Medical Director, QEII New Generation Project
  • COVID-19 online screening tool for staff entering Nova Scotia Health buildings
  • COVID Community Virtual Care Team (CCVCT)
  • Response to the third wave
  • Accreditation survey visit postponed until 2022

Research
  • DoM Virtual Research Week Winners - April 29

Education
  • OSCE
  • CaRMS
  • Hosted National Chief Residents Conference

Upcoming Events
  • Lunch and Learn: Medical Assistance in Dying: Where are we now? by Dr. Gubitz
  • CPSNS new standard for MAID - Approved April 26

COVID-19
  • Nova Scotia Cases
  • Monthly timeline

Quick Reference / Recurring Content
  • Added link - Nova Scotia Government YouTube Channel / Stayinformed webcast
  • Removed link - http://helpinghealthcareheroes.ca/
  • Removed link - Care for the Caregiver newsletter

Christine Short, MD, FRCP(C), FACP
Associate Professor & Head/Chief, Department of Medicine
Dalhousie University / Central Zone, Nova Scotia Health
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May 1 - Doctors Day
Why Nova Scotia doctors are proud to care for their patients

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Happy Doctors' Day from Nova Scotia Health

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WELCOME, FAREWELL & OPPORTUNITY
CONGRATULATIONS!
Dr. Jean Gray inducted into
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
2020 Inductee
Dr. Jean Gray

YouTube video - 4 minutes
Congratulations to Dr. Jean Gray, a long time member of the Department of Medicine & Division of General Internal Medicine, for being inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Six Canadian medical heroes are inducted annually into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Their work may be a single meritorious contribution or a lifetime of superior accomplishments. Pioneers in their field, they are role models of excellence in health in Canada and the world.

The virtual ceremony was held on April 29, 2021. It was originally scheduled for April 2020 in Vancouver, BC.


CFMS Culture Changers
2nd Annual CFMS Culture Changers Campaign
The CMFS Student Mistreatment Taskforce is excited to announce the 2nd annual Culture Changers Campaign to promote the positive contributions made by physicians and residents to medical student education! On May 1, National Doctors Day, physicians were highlighted who have created a positive learning environment for students across Canada.

Each Spring, nominations are accepted from medical students who would like to acknowledge "Culture Changers" - those residents and physicians who have made lasting impacts on their medical education. They will receive a commemorative pin in the shape of an apple: a symbol of knowledge and education to celebrate their contribution to medical education.


DoM would like to congratulate its members:

Dr. Volodko Bakowsky, Division of Rheumatology
Dr. Doug Hayami, Division of Cardiology
Dr. Daniel Malebranche, Division of Cardiology
Dr. Kerrie Schoffer, Division of Neurology
Dr. Maia von Maltzahn, Division of Geriatric Medicine
Dr. George Worthen, PGY4 Nephrology
Upcoming award deadlines:

May 10 - DoM Resident Research Excellence Awards (self-nomination)
May 10 - DoM Resident Research Publication Awards (self-nomination)

May 15 - Dr. G. W. Archibald Gold-headed Cane Award in Medical Humanities
Submit to medhuman@dal.ca
  • nomination letter
  • maximum of three additional Letters of Support
  • abbreviated 2-page CV (font size 12)

WE NEED YOU
Department COVID Challenge
Calling all Department of Medicine Members!

Over a thousand Nova Scotians have volunteered in recent months in the organization and implementation of pop-up COVID testing sites. Organizations, businesses and groups are now being challenged to step up and volunteer their noses and their time in the COVID effort as we battle (hopefully the last!) wave of COVID variants. We need every person and nose on deck.

We are challenging all department members to drop in to a pop-up clinic and get your asymptomatic test done, or better yet volunteer!

The department will donate $10 dollars every time a department member gets an asymptomatic test and $20 dollars every time someone volunteers to help at one of our many pop-up COVID asymptomatic testing sites.

We will give credit retrospective to April 23 and the challenge will continue for the next 14 days ending May 14th.

Notify Mary Synette (mary.synette@nshealth.ca) to get credit for participating. Take a selfie (optional) and we will get some great positive PR out there and encourage all of our communities to step up.

Proceeds from the challenge will go to FeedNS and ShelterNS.


Take care and stay well,

Christine
If you would like to volunteer:

Subject line:
DOM Pop-up Volunteer
Our EA Janet Hartnett getting her rapid test at the roving cart at the NSRC building yesterday.
SUN SAFETY
Sun Awareness Week in Canada &
Melanoma Awareness Month
NOVA SCOTIA HEALTH
Senior Medical Director,
QEII New Generation Project
The QEII New Generation Project announced on April 27, 2021 that Dr. Christine Short has been appointed as the new senior medical director.

Dr. Short completed her degree in medicine at Dalhousie University in 1994. She completed her fellowship (FRCPC) in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Dalhousie (June 13, 1999). She is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Short is an associate professor and the head/chief for the Department of Medicine Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine and the Nova Scotia Health Authority (Central Zone). She previously served as division chief for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and co-lead for the Rehabilitation Program from 2008-2017. She has been a fulltime medical staff member in the Dept. of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the QEII Health Sciences Centre since September of 1999. She has a cross appointment with the Division of Neurosurgery.

Dr. Short’s leadership focus has been and continues in clinical/academic medicine. She serves as head of the Department of Medicine, chair of the Clinical/Academic Funding Department Heads Committee and treasurer/chair elect for the Canadian Association of Professors in Medicine.

Dr. Short serves on several national committees dedicated to providing the best evidence base for clinical management of persons with Spinal Cord Injury and she was a physician lead for the development of the Accreditation Standards for acute and rehabilitative care for persons with SCI for Accreditation Canada. In addition, Dr. Short continues to be professionally engaged with many associations and specialty committees both nationally and internationally.

Over the past several years Dr. Short has been extensively involved with our redevelopment projects. She has served on the QEII New Generation Project Clinical Executive Committee and has been a highly involved and influential voice in design planning for both the Bayer’s Lake Community Outpatient Centre and the Halifax Infirmary Expansion Project. We have been thoroughly impressed with Dr. Short’s leadership and are grateful for the opportunity to have her share these talents and her time with our projects.

In addition to her work, she is a wife and mother of three.

Congratulations Dr. Short!
COVID-19 online screening tool for staff entering Nova Scotia Health buildings
Nova Scotia Health's
COVID Community Virtual Care Team (CCVCT)
Nova Scotia Health's response to the third wave
Video message from Dr. Brendan Carr, Nova Scotia Health President & CEO


Uploaded: April 28, 2021
Time: 4 minutes
Accreditation survey visit postponed until 2022
RESEARCH
DoM Virtual Research Week 2021
Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the 2021 DoM Virtual Research Week awards:

  • Best Core Resident Presentation: Jasmine Mah - “No where to go: Socially vulnerable adults are more likely to have longer hospital stays and be transferred to ALC status awaiting long‐term care” (Oral presentation)

  • Best Subspecialty Resident Presentation: Thomas Brothers - “Uptake of slow-release oral morphine as opioid agonist treatment among hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder” (Poster presentation)

  • Best Undergraduate Student Presentation: Martha Foley - “The Impact of Combined Warm and Cold Ischemia Time on Post Transplant Outcomes” (Oral Presentation)

  • Best Case Report Presentation: Kari Lynn Middleton - “First report of a Thiotepa Autologous stem cell transplant for a patient with primary refractory Burkitt Lymphoma and Central Nervous System involvement” (Oral presentation)

  • Best Graduate Student Presentation: Jack Quach - “The impact of a long‐term structured physical activity intervention on frailty and mobility disability” (Oral presentation)

  • Best Research Fellow Presentation: Shanna Trenaman - “Potentially Inappropriate Drug Duplication in a Cohort of Older Adults with Dementia” (Oral presentation)

  • Best Research Staff Presentation: Rachel Warren - “HDL-cholesterol and haptoglobin (Hp) phenotype in the ACCORD lipid trial: the good, the bad and the dysfunctional” (Oral presentation)

Thank you to all of our presenters, judges, and participants for taking part in this virtual event!

From:
DoM Research
April 29, 2021
EDUCATION
Chief Medicine Resident Conference

On April 16 & 17, 2021, the Chief Medicine Resident Conference was hosted virtually this year by Dr. Whitney Faiella, PGY3 Core Internal Medicine representing Dalhousie University's Core Internal Medicine Program. Over 30 chiefs from around the country participated in this national conference.

Discussion topics included:
  • Competency By Design (Dr. Aaron Leblanc);
  • Pearls from a Past Chief (Dr. Alison Rodger),
  • Wellness & Resiliency in Residency (Dr. Carolyn Thomson and Dr. Lisa Sutherland) and
  • breakout group sessions on POCUS/Sim, COVID-19 changes, MTU/CTU and call structure.
UPCOMING EVENTS
MAID
legislation
changes
Lunch and Learn: Medical Assistance in Dying: Where are we now?

Presented by Dr. Gord Gubitz

Thursday, May 6
12 noon to 1 p.m.

To join: see calendar invitation
COVID-19
8 currently in ICU;
26 total patient admissions
12
South African variant
(B.1.351)
1
Brazilian variant
(P.1)
As of May 4, 2021


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