Performance improvement initiatives designed without an intentional focus on equity may foster intervention-generated inequalities. @TheIHI suggests questions to ask at each step of the performance improvement process, to embed equity into improvement: https://t.co/noUCxVjLyx
"@alexanawati says demonstrating solidarity with unhoused patients requires physicians to think well beyond the usual parameters of patient-centred or even community-centred care." from a new article on healthcare & homelessness. Take a look here for more: https://t.co/qDNMkrYgza
The Centre's @BrianneJW0 and Erin Cameron are coauthors on a new article titled "A conceptual framework to describe and evaluate a socially accountable learning health system" which is available (open access) here! https://t.co/PjrZWgJ0MI
So excited for the official launch of the Centre @nosm_cfsa! Already amazing collaborations and projects under way, and am thrilled to see what is coming! @MedEdNorth
Research coordinator at NORTHH, Roya Daneshmand has just published a book chapter on "Challenges in Promoting Plant Protein Food Consumption" in a new edited volume publish by Springer Nature. Congrats Roya! https://t.co/Nus15s7Y4h
"Our goal is to empower individuals, organizations, and communities to participate in transforming health systems..." @nosm_cfsa @MedEdNorth@bzelek @TBRHRI @thenosm https://t.co/DaNt19Sr3r
The untold story of 2021: people became kinder.
Global rates of helping strangers, volunteering, and giving to charity are nearly 25% above pre-pandemic levels.
The dominant response to suffering is not selfishness. It's compassion. The worst of times bring out the best in us.
Our latest episode of #TheHQPodcast features @AmandaBjorn! Amanda is a Coach, learner, teacher, & leader. She is a unique #Health#Leader whose experiences in #Healthcare have taken her from the bedside to the boardroom. 1/3
Dr. Sarita Verma, NOSM's Dean, President and CEO, is pleased to announce the appointment of Erin Cameron, PhD, as the inaugural Academic Director of the Centre for Social Accountability. @ddsv3 @dmarshnosm #Changemaker#MedEd#socialaccountability
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Brave and truthful words from my mentor @cathycervin. Thank you @JillianHortonMD for your insight on physician suffering. Grief, mindfulness, and changing the system | The College of Family Physicians of Canada https://t.co/EhihGKK68v
🎉@DRAAA86, NOSM’s first international fellow has graduated with 2 fellowship subspecialties(Endourology & Reconstructive Urology).This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of @thenosm & @TBRHRI. A big shout out to my colleagues and a special thanks to @ShahrourWalid🎉
Mental health cannot be separated from social determinants of health. To improve mental health on a population-level, we need to ensure that people have safe homes, jobs, food security, free medical care, and community connection. Structural change required.
Come help us shape digital health in NW Ontario as we kick off digital health renewal across the health+care continuum & region. Join us as Senior Director for the shared IT/IS service @TBRHSC_NWO and @SJCG_ThunderBay https://t.co/r4FWsgjv2c. DM if interested. Please RT.
Powerful moment today with my team on the clinical teaching unit:
We debriefed a really bad experience of misogynist abuse from a patient. It was not complicated. We just talked about what it felt like and validated one another. But it was cathartic and important.