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Deadline extended - apply for CMA committees by February 15
AMA representatives are needed to sit on the following Canadian Medical Association committees:
- CMA Governance Committee:
member-at-large, two positions available
- CMA Nominations Committee:
mid-term position to complete a 2021 term. Possibility of a further three-year term.
- CMA Vice-Chair of AGM/Deputy Speaker
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CII/CPAR eNotification leads to a better outcome during COVID-19
For Edmonton family physician Dr. Janet Craig, eNotifications provided to her electronic medical record through her participation in the Community Information Integration/Central Patient Attachment Registry (CII/CPAR) initiative have proven to have potentially life-saving impacts.
Early this year, a patient of Dr. Craig’s entered an emergency department with respiratory issues. He was discharged and sent home. What happened next is inspiring.
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Want to make an impact upon Connect Care?
An AMA representative is needed to co-chair the Connect Care Provider Portal Working Group.
Reporting to the Connect Care Portals Committee, the Connect Care Provider Portal Working Group is responsible for the design, deployment, policy review/adherence, evaluation and other due diligence of the Connect Care Provider Portal, including alignment with solutions used by community based physicians (i.e., electronic medical records).
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Review these important updates to eReferral
Internal Med - Clinical Pharmacology advice is now available province-wide through eReferral Advice Request. Physicians and clinical support staff can submit Advice Requests to the Clinical Pharmacology physician on call for:
- Suspected adverse drug events (of any kind)
- Medication regimen/management issues
- Drug discontinuation syndromes
- Drug interactions
- Polypharmacy/overprescribing
On January 28, Incontinence was re-added as a Edmonton Zone Urology Consult Request reason for referral. In addition, changes were made to the requirements when creating a Urology Consult Request for Hematuria microscopic (greater than 3 rbc/hpf) and Peyronies Disease. For these important updates, please visit the Health Services Catalogue from the eReferral menu in Alberta Netcare.
Resources
For additional training support, please contact the eHealth Netcare Support Services team at 1.855.643.8649 or email ehealthsupport@cgi.com.
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Five privacy tips for virtual appointments
As physicians, we have made leaps and bounds during the pandemic to support our patients and colleagues. One of the newest obstacles we have had to overcome is incorporating unfamiliar technologies into our roles in order to provide continued care to those who need us. While we’re all getting more comfortable navigating this digital world, it’s important to take time to review our clinics’ privacy practices. Here are five tips to make your virtual appointments more secure.
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Register for the ACFP’s Family Medicine Summit - early bird pricing ends February 15!
Connect, learn and celebrate with your peers virtually March 5-7 at the Alberta College of Family Physician’s VIRTUAL Family Medicine Summit! Session topics include:
- An MSK pre-conference program presented by the AMA's Section of Sports Medicine,
- Anti-racism and allyship,
- Electronic communications with patients,
- Mental health impacts of COVID-19,
- ADHD in adults, and much more!
This one-credit-per-hour program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 12.75 Mainpro+ credits.
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Survey Corner
Health care partners and other organizations often seek physician feedback through surveys. This month, the following is available for your consideration:
Family medicine physicians are invited to participate in a study exploring clinical reasoning. Participation will involve responding to common clinical scenarios present in community practice. This study will provide researchers the opportunity to explore the behavioral underpinnings of clinical reasoning and how resultant clinical decisions are made. This study may take up to 1 hour to complete. All results will be completely anonymized and pooled for analysis. This study has been approved by the University of Calgary Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board under ID: REB20-1770.
Editor's note: "Survey Corner" presents survey requests received and reviewed by the AMA, that may be of interest to our members. We will publish new opportunities as we receive them.
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In case you missed them...
On January 28, the AMA experienced some technical issues such that not all members received a number of publications sent that day. In case you missed them, here they are:
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Last issue's top stories
MD Scope Classifieds
In the February 11 MD Scope Classifieds you'll find listings for:
- Physicians wanted
- Space available
- For sale
- Services
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