The 捆绑SM社区 Methodological Development Platform of the has begun its work! The platform is housed in the 捆绑SM社区 Department of Family Medicine. Under the direction of Dr Pierre Pluye (Family Medicine) and associate direction of Dr.
On August 18, 2015, Drs. Bertrand Lebouch茅 and Charo Rodriguez were awarded a grant totaling 160,000.00 CAD for their application to the Mitacs-Accelerate Internship Program (72,000 from the partner organization, Merck Inc, and 88,000 from Mitacs). Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organization that supports research-based innovation, in part, through a research internship program designed to increase deployment of highly educated graduates into the private sector.
On July 31st, in Shenzhen, China, Dr Howard Bergman, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, signed a letter of intent between the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning (Department of Family Medicine of 捆绑SM社区) and the Shenzhen Association of Community Health.
We are proud to announce that Dr. Ann Macaulay, Professor and Founding Director of in our department, was recently chosen as one of the聽Top 20 Pioneers of Family Medicine Research in Canada by听迟丑别 .听These pioneers in Family Medicine research were among the first to apply new research methodologies,聽laying the ground work for the advancement of family medicine in Canada. Dr.
We are proud to announce that one of the graduate students in our department, Nadia O'Brien, was selected to receive an award through the 捆绑SM社区 Institute for Health and Social Policy's Graduate Award Program (GAP)听迟丑别 2015-2016 academic year.听The Graduate Award Program is competitive and merit-based.
We're proud to announce that Dr. Gillian Bartlett, Associate Professor and the聽Research and Graduate Program Director at the Department of Family Medicine, was recently elected聽Chair of the by the聽 Board of Directors.
The Isaac Tannenbaum Annual Research Day on May 29 brought together essentially all of our residents from our six Family Medicine Units and our three satellites sites.听 The resident oral presentations were fantastic with many were excellent examples of practice-based research pointing to how practice can be improved by research.听 These presentations were complemented by our guest speakers, Dr. Howard Bergman who spoke about our growing academic department and Dr. Marion who talked about her journey as a clinician scientist.听 We also had Ms.
Peter Nugus and Charo Rodriguez, from the Department of Family Medicine have been successful in bidding for the department and Montreal to host the "2018 International Conference on Organizational Behavior in Health Care (OBHC)". The theme of the conference is: "Coordinating Care Across Boundaries and Borders: Systems, Networks and Collaborations".
Two members of the 捆绑SM社区聽Family Medicine Student Interest Group (FAMSIG),聽Annick Gauthier and Hiromi Tissera, were involved in producing a joint paper with other Quebec Family Medicine Interest Groups (FMIGs) on Bill 20.听聽is a group of 捆绑SM社区 Medical Students interested in family medicine, whose mission is to promote medical student exposure to family medicine.听
We're proud to announce that two graduate students in our department, Stephanie Ballard and Svetlana Puzhko, were awarded ! Stephanie Ballard is completing an MSc in Family Medicine and is being co-supervised by Dr. Machelle Wilchesky and Dr. Mark Yaffe. Her project is "The validation of a tool for the detection of elder abuse in long-term care: A feasibility study." Svetlana Puzhko is currently in the MSc program in Family Medicine, supervised by Dr.
We're proud to announce that one of faculty members Dr. Mark Ware, Associate Professor in the 捆绑SM社区 Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology, is leading the launch of the聽, one of the largest studies ever conducted on medical marijuana.
On April 26, in Vancouver,聽during the Presidential Address Awards Ceremony at the Canadian Conference in Medical Education (CCME), Dr Grad has received his AFMC John Ruedy Award for innovation in medical Education.听The award is given to an individual or group who has developed innovative print materials, electronic learning aids or other teaching aids.
Dr. Hashana Perera, a family physician and faculty lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine at 捆绑SM社区, has published an opinion piece in the Montreal Gazette detailing how she believes Bill 20 will discourage the practice of family medicine. Please see the for more details.
Dr. David Eidelman, Dean of Medicine at 捆绑SM社区 and Chairman of the conference of Deans of the four Faculties of Medicine in Quebec, was quoted this week in the . The article briefly discussed the increasing popularity of family medicine, which for the first time filled 424 residency positions, compared to 425 in other specialities. However, this was prior to the introduction of controversial Bill 20. Dr.