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Table of Contents Dean’s Message 1 Why and How We Care Social Accountability at the College of Medicine 2 The Future of Medical Education in Canada 6 Research Smart cities, healthy kids 9 Exploring fertility in space 10 Depression, pills and Alzeimer’s disease 11 Creating a Provincial Campus Distributed Medical Education moves forward 12 Celebrating 25 years of Northern Medical Services 14 College Awards and Honours 16 SMSS Student Corner 18 2010 and Beyond – News from PAIRS 20 Aboriginal Programming 21 Health Sciences Capital Campaign 22 School of Physical Athabasca Therapy 24 Leadership Team Dean of Medicine: Dr. William Albritton FALL 2010 Associate Dean, Biomedical Sciences and Graduate Studies: Dr. Nick Ovsenek Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs: Dr. Olufemi Olatunbosun Associate Dean, Medical Education: Dr. Shelia Harding (on leave) Associate Dean, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences: Dr. Liz Harrison Associate Dean, Regina Programs: Dr. Gill White Associate Dean, Research: Dr. Lou Qualtiere Associate Dean, Rural and Northern Medical Programs: Dr. Tom Smith-Windsor Associate Dean, Saskatoon Programs: Dr. Grant Stoneham Assistant Dean, Continuing Professional Learning: Dr. Penny Davis Assistant Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education: Dr. Anurag Saxena Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education: Dr. Gary Linassi Director, Admissions: Dr. Barry Ziola Director, Educational Support and Development: Dr. Marcel D’Eon Director, Student Affairs: Dr. Susan Gilmer (acting) Keewatin Yatthé s Research Marnawetan Churchill River Smart cities, healthy kids Prairie North Saskatoon Heartland 12 Sunrise s Distributed Medical Education Creating a Provincial Regina Campus Cypress Prince Albert Parkland Five Hills 21 Kelsey Trail Qu’appelle Sun Country s Aboriginal Programming Aboriginal coordinator joins the College of Medicine 14 22 s s Northern Medical Services Celebrating 25 years Health Sciences 9 Capital Campaign Building the foundation for health sciences education and research Chief Financial Officer and Director of Administration: Ms. Ann Schultz Manager, Human Resources: Ms. Tracey Wray Department Heads Anatomy and Cell Biology: Dr. Pat Krone (acting) Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management: Dr. David Campbell Biochemistry: Dr. Ramji Khandelwal Community Health and Epidemiology: Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine Family Medicine: Dr. Alanna Danilkewich (acting) Medical Imaging: Dr. Sheldon Wiebe Medicine: Dr. Vernon Hoeppner Microbiology and Immunology: Dr. Peter Bretscher Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences: Dr. Tom Mainprize Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Dr. John Krahn Pediatrics: Dr. Bill Bingham Pharmacology: Dr. Venkat Gopalakrishnan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Dr. Lila Rudachyk Physiology: Dr. Michel Desautels Psychiatry: Dr. Marilyn Baetz School of Physical Therapy: Dr. Angela Busch Surgery: Dr. Bill Dust (acting) Advancement Team Alumni Relations: Ms. Verity Moore-Wright Communications: Ms. Laura Herman Development: Mr. Fred J. Matiko Support: Ms. Christine Wood Design: Deanna Miller COMMUNIQUé College of Medicine magazine Published by the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. For regular updates, please visit www. medicine.usask.ca C O M M U N I Q U É College of Medicine • University of Saskatchewan
One of the ways the College will be able to achieve increased enrolment will be through continued “expansion of distributed medical education ” Dean’s Message Colleagues, Alumni, Friends, It was only a few short weeks ago we had the pleasure of welcoming our newest undergraduate students, the Class of 2014, to the medical profession at our White Coat Ceremony. It was the perfect opportunity to look forward with optimism at the budding careers of these eager students. Proud family members and friends watched as eighty-four students received their first white coat from respected members of our physician community. These ceremonies are a relatively new tradition in Canadian schools and introduced here by Dr. Sheila Harding, Associate Dean – Medical Education. They serve as an important milestone in a learner’s academic and service life. The white coat has long been a symbol of our profession, but for these newest members the white coat is meant to serve as a symbolic representation of their personal commitment to life-long learning and service to their patients and the profession. Later that same evening we played host to the College of Medicine’s first Annual Homecoming BBQ. For anyone who joined us at the event, I hope you’ll agree the southern food and bluegrass band made for an enjoyable evening and the weather was beautiful. Be sure to reserve your tickets early for next year’s Homecoming and let us know how we can make it even more enjoyable. Aside from ceremonies and BBQ’s, the hard work of running our College of Medicine has continued and we have many successes to share with you. I think of the eight-year renewal of our undergraduate medical education program. In its report, the Committee on the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) and its American counterpart, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), cited the College of Medicine’s integrated planning processes, strong partnerships in recruitment, education and community engagement, its leadership in social accountability, and its “exceptionally supportive” services for students and residents in Regina among our strengths. We are currently preparing for a secretariat fact-finding visit in March 2011 where the adjudicators will look at our progress on the Academic Health Sciences project, faculty expansion and finances in preparation for an expanded class size of 100 students. One of the ways the College will be able to achieve increased enrolment will be through continued expansion of distributed medical education, both for our undergraduate students and residents. We’ve made several strides in this regard. In July, we celebrated the expansion of our Family Medicine Residency program to Swift Current, where four clinical residents will receive their training. In August, twelve of our third-year undergraduate students began their full-time studies based in Regina. Through video-conferencing and interactive teaching technologies, the Regina site is linked to Saskatoon and we now have the ability to offer lectures from either location. We are planning to also increase our programs in Prince Albert and to add new sites to our programs. We are also working to implement the ten recommendations and five enabling recommendations brought forward in the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Report entitled The Future of Medical Education in Canada (FMEC): A Collective Vision for MD Education. This initiative and our work in this regard, is further described on page 6. In addition to helping to continue to focus our work in social accountability, it also will help us to further develop our biomedical science programs that have been so successful at the undergraduate BSc and graduate studies (MSc and PhD) level. The work that the biomedical science departments have done in the past several years developing a core platform for studies in Biochemistry, Physiology, Pharmacology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Anatomy and Cell Biology under the leadership of Dr. Nick Ovsenek has been remarkable. To complement our work in education, we have begun turning our time and attention to writing our College’s next integrated plan, the third such plan we have developed as part of the University’s fouryear planning cycle. Dr. Sheila Harding will be leading the College of Medicine team in determining our priorities for 2012–2016. This type of planning exercise enables us to align our academic priorities with financial resources and helps to ensure our work at the College level is consistent with the overall strategic directions of the University. As we move further along in this process, information will be posted on our web site at www.medicine.usask.ca/leadership/integrated-plan and I encourage you, especially those of you who are members of faculty, to engage in what is meant to be a collaborative and empowering process. Finally, as you may know, I am in the penultimate year of my deanship and will not be seeking a renewal of my appointment. As such, the University is embarking on a search process for my successor. This position comes with many difficult trials and challenges, but is also hugely satisfying and rewarding. I am confident the University will find a capable leader for the College to implement the third Integrated Plan. I hope you will enjoy this latest edition of Communiqué. Please let us know what you think and how we can keep you better informed of the work of the College. Sincerely, William Albritton Dean, College of Medicine University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan • College of Medicine C O M M U N I Q U É 1
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