PGME Annual Report 2011 - Post Graduate Medical Education ...

Annual Report - Postgraduate Medical Education 2010-11
Survey results showed a low number of educators in departments
able to deliver a physician health curriculum and a
low number of curricular hours dedicated to physician wellbeing.
Information on preferred topics and best formats for
presenting wellness training has helped inform the content
and delivery of our 2011-2012 wellness workshop series
Figure 19 Figure 20
Two findings from the needs assessments are presented in
the tables below.
Topics of interest are shown in Figure 19, and the perceived
number of physician health curricular hours is reflected
in Figure 20.
f) Toronto Model of Integrated Medical Education
(T-IME)
Dr. Susan Edwards, Director of Resident Wellness, and
Dr. Leslie Nickell, Associate Dean of the Office of Health
Professions Student Affairs (UGME), have been active coleads
of the T-IME Working Group on Learner Experience.
The working group is tasked with implementing a sustainable
framework that enhances learners’ access to clinical
teaching in a wide variety of settings along the continuum
of medical education.
g) Contributions to national and international
physician health initiatives:
The Office of Resident Wellness was particularly active
this year in contributing to academic scholarship in physician
health. Contributions included first authorship on
two posters, one paper and two workshops at the International
Conference on Residency Education of the RCPSC;
and, one poster and one workshop at the AMA-CMA-
BMA International Conference on Physician Health. The
Director was also one of the primary contributors to the
RCPSC Physician Health Train-the- Trainer workshop
and manual.
The Director and the Wellness Consultant contribute
as members of the AFMC’s Resource Group on Physician
Health and are involved in planning the academic
stream of the Canadian Conference on Physician Health.
The Director was also the primary author on the environmental
scan paper “Resident Wellness and Work Life
Balance” for the Future of Medical Education Postgraduate
Medicine (FMEC PG) project.
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The Practice Ontario Pilot Partnership
has connected 223 University of
Toronto residents with Community
Placement Coordinators.
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