Anesthesia Care & Pain Medicine

PROGRAM:

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DAY 1 - Friday, November 20 from 4:00 - 7:15 pm (EST)

DAY 2 - Saturday, November 21 from 8:50 am - 3:00 pm (EST)

1. Anesthesia workforce planning in urban and rural Canada

2. Coaching networks, mentorship and educational opportunities

3. Policy support for rural anesthesia and pain medicine

4. Technology, virtual reality and distance coaching and learning

5. Training and supporting rural generalists (Anesthesia, Obstetrics, Surgery)

6. Rural and remote practice models of care in Canada including allied health professionals

7. Policy through collaboration with national medical societies and government

UofT News: Symposium to Focus on Health Equity in Rural and Remote Regions (November 6, 2020)

CBC - British Columbia: Rural Canadians face greater disparities from lack of anesthesia care, doctors say (July 30, 2020)

• Unity for Health: Challanges and opportunities for partnership in health development
• Activating the Partnership Pentagram in Health Systems Change
  • Parnertship Pentagrams Appendix
• General Surgery in Canada: Current scope of practice and future needs
• Surgical task-sharing to non-specialist physicians in low-resource settings globally: A systematic review of the literature
• Anesthesia & Analgesia: Improving access to safe anesthetic care in rural and remove communitites in affluent contries
• CanJAnesth - Developing practice guidelines for anesthesia services in rural Canada: the importance of the family physician perspective
• CMAJ - Canada needs a national strategy for anaesthesia services in rural and remote regions
• BMJ - Survey of the capacity for essential surgery and anaesthesia services in Papua New Guinea
• Lancet - Perioperative and anaesthetic-realted mortality in developed and deloping countries; a systematic review and meta-analysis

The purpose of the meeting is to better understand how the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto can better support patients and healthcare workers involved in the provision of anesthesia and pain care in rural Canada. The goal of the evening is to better understand the current landscape of healthcare and service gaps in rural Canada and to identify education and research opportunities. We will also discuss the planning of a 2-day international and interdisciplinary symposium, which will be held in 2020.

Date: January 12, 2020
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Location: Postgraduate Medical Education   Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
                  500 University Avenue, 6th Floor - Boardroom A

Featured participants include:

• Dr. Ruth Wilson, Co-Chair of the Rural Road Map Implementation Committee (College of Family Physicians of Canada); Professor Emeritus Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University; rural family physician (Yellowknife)
• Dr. Alexander (Sandy) MacDonald, former Director of Medical Affairs in Nunavut, Iqaluit
• Dr. Vaibhav Kamble, Program Director, Family Practice Anesthesia

Thanks to everyone who joined, it was a very successful meeting!

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