Category: Seminar

Sinai Health - Psychiatry Grand Round June 25, 2021

Sinai Health – Psychiatry Grand Round June 25, 2021 🗓

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

SINAI HEALTH

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY

GRAND ROUNDS

Buddhist & Western psychological models of the self and their uses in psychotherapy

Presenter:

Nicolas Beaulieu, MD, FRCPC, MA

Buddhism & Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinical Fellow, University of Toronto

Date:  Friday, June 25, 2021

Time:  11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Location: Zoom

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Meeting ID: 981 0896 4697    Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abMVi6Z3dK

Learning objectives:

  • Describe a Buddhist model of the self, including the concept of anatta
  • Describe models of the self from psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral, and acceptance and commitment therapy
  • Gain familiarity with a framework to navigate problems related to the self
  • Critically reflect on possible Buddhist contributions to psychotherapy

Next Grand Rounds:  September 10, 2021

History of Medicine Event - June 17 (Toronto Western Hospital)

History of Medicine Event – June 17 (Toronto Western Hospital) 🗓

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

I’m excited to announce an upcoming history of medicine event, organized by the Health History Interest Group in collaboration with the Art of Medicine program within the HoPingKong Centre, UHN.

Through a shared passion for the history of medicine and medical humanities, the Health History Interest Group was formed in 2020 by UHN-MSH Clinical Assistant Dan Petrescu and University of Toronto trainees Imaan Kherani (2T3) and Ariel Gershon (R2 Anatomic Path.).  The group aims to foster mentorship, scholarship, and collaboration in the medical humanities across Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Toronto and beyond.

Recently, a number of medical students presented oral abstracts at the University of Calgary History of Medicine Days Conference.  Please join us as they share their work with peers and faculty:

History of Medicine Presentations

Thursday June 17th @ 7pm

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87882223967

Meeting ID: 878 8222 3967

See attached for more details:  [History of Medicine Event_June2021]

Thanks,

Sarah

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Sarah Meilach
Administrator
The HoPingKong Centre – CEEP
Toronto Western Hospital – UHN
399 Bathurst Street, EW 8-427B
Toronto ON, M5T 2S8
(T) 416-603-5800 x 2936 (F) 416-603-6495
www.TheHoPingKongCentre.com

Temerty Medicine Talks - June 18, 2021

Temerty Medicine Talks – June 18, 2021 🗓

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The Age of Anxiety

After more than a year of adjusting to life during a pandemic, it can often feel like our individual and collective anxiety levels are spinning out of control. Yet, is worry always harmful?

Delve deeper into UofTMed magazine's upcoming "Possibilities" issue in the next offering in our popular Temerty Medicine Talks series. Join the Globe and Mail's André Picard and Temerty Medicine clinicians and scientists Kymm Feldman, Jodi Lofchy, Sanjeev Sockalingam, and Trisha Tulloch as they discuss healthy worry in the context of individual well-being, relationships, and medical practices, as well as techniques for living with anxiety in our daily lives.

Friday, June 18, 2021
12:00 – 12:45 p.m. (EDT)
[REGISTER]

Kindly register by June 17th. You will be able to access the online event via your mobile or desktop device. Log-in details will be provided before the event to all registrants.

Can’t join live? [REGISTER] to receive the recorded webinar to watch at your convenience.

Dr. Kymm Feldman

Dr. Kymm Feldman

Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Dr. Feldman is a family physician at Women's College Hospital and the Director of the Women's Health Enhanced Skills Program in U of T’s Department of Family and Community Medicine. She has won local and national awards for her work in medical education in the areas of teaching, curriculum development, faculty development and mentorship.

Dr. Jodi Lofchy

Dr. Jodi Lofchy

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Lofchy is an emergency psychiatrist at Unity Health Toronto’s St. Joseph’s Health Centre, where she serves as both the Department of Psychiatry’s Interim Chief and Medical Director, as well as Service Head of Adult Acute Care Psychiatry. She is also Chair of the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s Section of Emergency Psychiatry and has published widely in the area of best practices in emergency and medical education.

Dr. Sanjeev Sockalingam

Vice-Chair and Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Sockalingam is the U of T Department of Psychiatry’s Vice-Chair as well as Vice President, Education at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. In addition to working as a clinician-scientist focused on obesity and mental illness, he also serves as Co-Chair of the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) Ontario Mental Health.

Dr. Trisha Tulloch

Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics

Dr. Tulloch is an adolescent medicine specialist who provides consultation within the Child, Youth and Emerging Adult Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She is also an associate staff physician in the Hospital for Sick Children and Scarborough Health Network’s Centenary Hospital, as well as Vice-Chair for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Area of Focused Competency in Addiction Medicine.

On September 24, 2020, U of T announced an unprecedented $250-milllion gift from James and Louise Temerty and the Temerty Foundation in support of the Faculty of Medicine and our community’s collective vision. The Faculty is proud to bear the Temerty name in recognition of their generous support.

As the research and educational hub within Toronto's robust health sciences network, the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine is uniquely positioned for impact – advancing health and health care in Canada and beyond.

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Race, Medicine and Healthcare: Indian Hospitals in 20th Century Canada

Race, Medicine and Healthcare: Indian Hospitals in 20th Century Canada 🗓

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All interested students, faculty, and staff are invited to the next talk in the Hannah History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Speaker Series, sponsored by the Hannah Unit in the History of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences. Please find a poster attached.

Speaker:   Dr. Maureen Lux, Department of History, Brock University 

Respondent:  Dr. Amy Montour, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University

Title: “Race, Medicine and Healthcare: Indian Hospitals in 20th Century Canada”

Date:  March 24, 2021

Time of Talk:  1:30 – 3:00pm

Please register for the lecture on zoom using the following link:

https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvcuytrDorGtalpDsTblCFWjbJBnN_r9ZW 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

Talk Description: As Canada embarked on national healthcare programs such as Medicare it also maintained a system of racially segregated hospitals for Indigenous people.  Poorly funded and badly managed, ‘Indian hospitals’ isolated Indigenous people from modern care.  This history exposes some of the twentieth-century roots of racism in healthcare.

Biographies:

Dr. Maureen Lux: Dr. Lux is Professor of History at Brock University.  Her award-winning publications explore the impact of colonization on the health of Indigenous peoples and the role of medicine and the state in maintaining health disparities.  Her latest book with co-author Erika Dyck is Challenging Choices: Canada’s Population Control in the 1970s (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).

Dr. Amy Montour:  Dr. Montour is a Haudenosaunee woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She has completed Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Medicine degrees at McMaster University. Amy works clinically as a palliative care physician and as an advocate for Indigenous health. In addition, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Site Director for the Grand Erie Six Nations Family Medicine Residency Site, McMaster University.

This talk is co-sponsored by the following: 

  • Hannah History of Medicine Unit
  • Department of Family Medicine
  • Indigenous Health Learning Lodge Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Department of Religious Studies
  • Masters of Public Health
  • Bachelor of Health Science Program (Honours)
  • Department of Anthropology

The History of Medicine and Medical Humanities Speaker Series is made possible by an endowment from Associated Medical Services (AMS).

A poster for this talk is attached here.

Physician Wellness Forum TODAY with Dr. Molyn Leszcz: PHYSICIAN AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING: COVID AND BEYOND

Physician Wellness Forum TODAY with Dr. Molyn Leszcz: PHYSICIAN AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING: COVID AND BEYOND 🗓

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

TODAY AT NOON-: Please join us for our inaugural Physician Wellness Forum, a forum for exploration of topics that impact physician engagement, wellness and excellence. 

 Topic: PHYSICIAN AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING: COVID AND BEYOND

Principles to guide self-care and guide leadership in support of our colleagues and their provision of patient care during these challenging times

Presenter:

Dr. Molyn Leszcz., MD, FRCPC, CGP, DFAGPA

President, American Group Psychotherapy Association

Professor, University of Toronto, Sinai Health System

Date:         February 17, 2021 via WebEx

Time:         12:00 – 1:30 p.m.    Open Presentation and Discussion

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Arts-Based Research with Hartley Jafine

Arts-Based Research with Hartley Jafine 🗓

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Arts-Based Research with Hartley Jafine

Join us to learn how you can share your research through artistic methods. Arts-based research is the use of artistic practices (theatre, photography, poetry, etc.) to collect, analyze, and communicate research (Leavy, 2015). These lectures will offer an introduction to arts-based research methodologies and identify its value in medicine and healthcare. Participants will explore the basics of arts-based research methods and will investigate how one can use this methodology in future research. The lecture will discuss examples of arts-based research in healthcare and how it has been used for research communication, development of health policy, teaching, and reflective practice. No previous arts experience required.

Dates: Tuesday November 24, 2020 and Tuesday January 26, 2021*, from 6-730 pm EST

*Signing up confirms attendance at both November 2020 and January 2021 sessions.

RSVP: Jafine@mcmaster.ca

Goals of the Sessions:

  1. Define and offer an introduction to arts-based research methods and verbatim theatre.

  2. Demonstrate how arts-based research and verbatim theatre can be used as a tool for research communication, development of health policy, teaching, and reflective practice.

  3. Engage and experiment with arts-based research as a methodology and explore how one can use it in future research.

Hartley Jafine
Facilitator, Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) and Arts & Science Program
Lecturer (Part-Time), Department of Family Medicine
McMaster University
Communication Coach
Post MD Education – Postgraduate Medical Education
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Interprofessional Arts-Based Learning Specialist
Baycrest Centre for Learning, Research & Innovation in Long-Term Care
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Awake at Work

Awake at Work 🗓

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

Awake at Work 

Writing into Presence for Medical Students, Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals

In this session, use writing to explore how simply showing up and attending to your own experience is the starting point for attending to others. Through guided exercises, you’ll have the opportunity to notice your personal, professional, and physical responses –– whether you’re at a desk, in the community, or in a hospital room –– and to write about them in a reflective, open, non-evaluative way. See how being awake to yourself might help you be awake at work. No experience is necessary.

Goals

  • Learn five rules for writing that can be used to reflect on one’s work, relationships, and life.
  • Engage with poetry as a tool for understanding and expressing challenges
  • Increase awareness of the impact of the professional on the personal, and the personal on the professional
  • Explore poetry and writing as practices of self-care
 

Date and Time

Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 6PM—7:30PM, Online

 
Ronna Bloom is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent book, The More, was published by Pedlar Press in 2017 and long listed for the City of Toronto Book Award. Her poems have been recorded by the CNIB and translated into Spanish, Bangla, and Chinese. She has collaborated with health care professionals, filmmakers, academics, students, spiritual leaders, and architects. A frequent guest in the faculties of Nursing, Medicine, Public Health, as well at teaching hospitals, she brings 25 years of psychotherapy practice to her work as a poet and facilitator.
 
Ronna developed the first Poet in Residence program at Sinai Health which ran from 2012-2019. She is currently Poet in Community to the University of Toronto and Poet in Residence in the Health, Arts and Humanities Programme. Her “Spontaneous Poetry Booth” and “RX for Poetry” have been featured in hospitals, fundraisers and local fairs in Canada and abroad. She runs workshops and gives talks on poetry, spontaneity, and awareness through writing. ronnabloom.com
 

For more information and to register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/awake-at-work-writing-into-presence-for-residents-students-physicians-tickets-122553399517

Art is Patient seminar series-Visual Literacy Training

Art is Patient seminar series-Visual Literacy Training 🗓

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Art is Patient

November 2020 (online)
This 3-part seminar guides Medical Students, Residents , Physicians and Other Health Professionals in :
·    close observation of art
·    group reflection and
·    art-making
within the art galleries and museums of the world (via virtual visits), to let art tell us what we need to know about seeing, witnessing and engaging in the context of care. The art gallery allows objects and images to clarify the doctor-patient relationship in ways the clinic can’t, giving us space to question and understand our roles with one another without the usual pressures to know or perform or explain.
 
Goals
·    Foster cognitive skills such as description and interpretation (and better understand the distinction between the two), critical thinking and metacognition
·    Sharpen technical abilities such as close observation, diagnostic acumen, pattern recognition and the perception of non-verbal cues
·    Deepen interpersonal skills with both patients and colleagues, such as collaboration, social awareness and cultural sensitivity
·    Nurture humanistic qualities such as tolerance of ambiguity, creativity and self-reflection
·    Understand the role of embodied witnessing in the practice of medicine.
 
Seminar leader
Eva-Marie Stern, RP, MA, Adjunct Professor U of T Dept of Psychiatry, is an art therapist, psychotherapist and educator. She co-founded WRAP (within the Trauma Therapy Program) at Women’s College Hospital in 1998. Her chapter, co-authored with Shelley Wall, “The Visible Curriculum”, which appears in Health Humanities in Postgraduate Medical Education (Oxford U Press, 2018) expands on how looking at and making art can vitalize learning in medicine. She offers art-based medical education initiatives in hospitals, museums and community studios.
 
Time and place:
One series of 3 sessions per semester
3 consecutive Mondays 6:30pm-8:30pm: November 2, 9, 16
Via Zoom meeting
 
Enrolment:
Open to all U of T Medical Students, Residents, practising Physicians/Faculty and Learners from other clinical disciplines on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no cost for participation but enrolment is required and ATTENDANCE IS EXPECTED AT ALL THREE seminar/workshops. Please do not take a spot if you cannot commit to attend.
 No art experience is necessary. Basic pencil and paper are needed as art materials.
 
For more information and to register, please contact: emstern@artandmind.net
 
There will be a second offering in second term (2021)-stay tuned!
 
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Eva-Marie Stern, RP MA
Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Psychiatry, U of Toronto
Specialist in Arts-based Education
Invitation - Fireside Chat on Leadership - September 15

Invitation – Fireside Chat on Leadership – September 15 🗓

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Invitation | Fireside Chat on Leadership | September 15

Dear Students,

As part of our ongoing commitment to leadership education, we are introducing a series of ‘Fireside Chats’ with medical leaders.   The six chats which will take place over the current academic year are formally part of the PG Leadership Certificate Program, and we are delighted to open them up to our entire community of medical learners at UofT so that all can be inspired and benefit from the wisdom and experience of these faculty.  Below are the details for the first fireside chat:

Topic: Authentic and Inspired Leadership

Speaker: Dr. Philip Berger

Date and Time: Tuesday September 15th at 6:15 – 6:45 pm

Livestreaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlcx52Omm4g&feature=youtu.be

To ask a question during the chat please email: anne.matlow@utoronto.ca

About the speaker: Dr. Berger is an Associate Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine, was Medical Director of the Inner City Health Program at St. Michael’s Hospital from 1997-2017 and Chief of its Department of Family and Community Medicine from 1997 to 2013. He has helped establish human rights related health organizations arising from his work with torture victims, refugees and people with HIV and has been involved in campaigns to fight poverty and in support of drug users.

Objectives:

  • How to identify conditions external to the patient and her community which can cause illness and impede recovery.
  • Assess the collision between self effacement and self interest in the context of physicians’ duty to patients and to the public.

Readings (DOWNLOAD attached document which contains both readings)

1.      Pellegrino ED.  Altruism, self-interest and Medical Ethics. JAMA 1987;258:1939-40

2.      Berwick DM.  To Isaiah. JAMA 2012; 307:2597-99

We hope you can join us!

Patricia Houston MD, MEd, FRCPC
Professor and Vice Dean, Medical Education
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Glen Bandiera BASc (Engin.), MD, MEd, FRCPC
Professor & Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

COVID & Ethics Series: links to videos of 4 webinars

COVID & Ethics Series: links to videos of 4 webinars

Posted on by Allan Peterkin
From Dr Robert Klitzman,

Joseph Mailman School of Public Health

Four  online lectures on Bioethics and Covid 19 in the US

Free Lecture Series: Intersections of Race, Class, and Health

Free Lecture Series: Intersections of Race, Class, and Health

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am delighted to share details about a virtual lecture series that I have organized over this new academic year.  All of the presentations are open and free, but there is a separate rsvp link for each.  I will send along that information as we move through time and space.

Please share with others, especially your students.

Thanks,

Dr. Tess Jones

SAVE THE DATES for this year-long lecture series on Mondays at noon.

RSVP for our first presentation by Dr. Damon Tweedy, MD on October 19th.

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COVID AND THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES-MAKING MEANING

COVID AND THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES-MAKING MEANING

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

Please share a wonderful resource found at this link:

Open source #Coronavirus syllabus

It’s curated beautifully and broken down as follows :

—“Teach the virus,” Anne Fausto-Sterling

Table of Contents 

Articles and Books               1

Symposia 12

Podcasts and Radio 12 

Film 13

Visual Arts 14

Music 14

Literature 15

Archives and Databases 16

Syllabi and Other Resources 16

Lectures and Fora 18