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CAME invites you to join them for their webinar sessions, designed to bring practical, evidence and experience based advice to Canadian health educators. The webinars are delivered by CAME using the Zoom platform, allowing full audio and visual communication and interaction between presenter and participants. The webinars offer an exciting opportunity to engage online with an expert and with colleagues in a live discussion on a key topic in medical education.
Earn up to 11 certified Mainpro+® credits or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Section 1 credits.
Participants will be asked to enter their email at the begining of the webinar so they can be sent a letter of attendance/certificate of completion
Dr. Sonja Wicklum, MD, CCFP, FCFP is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary. She is the Family Medicine Clerkship Director and practices at the University of Calgary’s Central Family Medicine Teaching Clinic. She has extensive experience practicing both rural and urban family medicine. Her research focuses on planetary health, and obesity prevention and management in primary care and specific to Indigenous populations. Her educational interests include teaching using experiential methods, innovative 'active classroom' techniques and the use of infographics as a novel educational method to improve the translation of science into medical practice. She recently co-authored the prevention chapter of the new Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines and was lead author on Building Climate Resilient Healthcare: Public Health Policy Brief published by the University of Calgary O’Brian Institute of Public Health.
Dr. Clark Svrcek, MD, CCFP, P.Eng., M.Eng. is a Family Physician at the Academic Teaching Clinic at South Health Campus and a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary. His previous life as a civil/environmental engineer has informed his research and education interests in Planetary Health, the intersections of nature and the built environment, and how that all comes together in active, healthy communities. When he's not working you can find him (or not) adventuring in nature with his family, providing engineering (and sweat equity) support for his family's urban permaculture project, or desperately trying to organize thousands of digital photos.
Overview: The health of our planet is inextricably linked to the populations of life that it supports. The climate crisis is a healthcare crisis, and is a symptom of our species living beyond the sustainable means of what Earth's biosphere can provide. The healthcare sector plays a vital role in mitigating our contributions to greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to meet evidencebased emission targets to reach net-zero by mid-century. Many healthcare organizations are committing to green policies, setting targets for supporting environmentally sustainable healthcare. We will describe some of our local efforts at the University of Calgary Department of Family Medicine in this transition to sustainable healthcare in the context of global and nationalefforts, with a focus on the pillars of education, research, and clinical practice. We will also review the common barriers and opportunities we face as medical educators in this domain, and will welcome an open discussion with attendees -- net-zero healthcare is yet another sphere where we are all
in this together.
***Please note there will be two presentations***
Delivery 1: 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
Delivery 2: 3:00pm - 4:00pm ET
Zoom link will be sent prior to your selected time, on March 8, 2023
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Summarize the climate crisis in the context of Planetary Health and the medical system's contributory role;
- Describe how the University of Calgary's DFM is transitioning to sustainable healthcare provision;
- Identify opportunities and challenges, as medical educators, to support our colleagues, trainees and patients to commit to environmentally conscious behaviour change.
Questions? Please contact fac.dev@queensu.ca