November 28, 2024

This week’s Vitals: 721 words / 3 min read

See top stories this week about our attendance at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities conference, a new Indigenous cultural safety training program, and Health Systems Updates including the latest Government Health Listening Tour stop and progress report. 

Join us this Monday, at our Doctors Manitoba Bannatyne Office Open House! This is an excellent opportunity to connect with colleagues. Our DRMB staff team will also be on site, if you have any questions. 

• When: Monday, December 2, from 3:30 to 7 p.m. 
• Where: DRMB @ Bannatyne Office, located at the Joe Doupe Concourse, 2nd floor of the Basic Medical Sciences Building at the UM Bannatyne campus medical school — see map here
• RSVP if you are able to help us plan refreshments, but an RSVP is not required.

TOP STORIES

01

Working with Municipalities on Physician Shortage

375 words / 1.5 min read / For rural members

Earlier this week, Doctors Manitoba attended the annual conference for the Association of Manitoba Municipalities. The topic was working together to recruit and retain physicians in rural and northern communities.

WHAT’S NEXT: The feedback will be used by Doctors Manitoba to create a guide for rural and northern municipalities about how they can support recruitment and retention efforts.

➡️ Take our 2 minute survey to share a status update on health services in your community. This will help us with our continued advocacy for rural care. 

02

New Program Focuses on Culturally Safe Care

174 words / 1 min read / For all members

🆕 Health care workers have a new opportunity to deepen their skills in Indigenous cultural safety through Giga mino ganawenimaag Anishinaabeg (We Will Take Good Care of the People). The training program was developed by Ongomiizwin, the Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing in UM’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

Learn more here.

03

Winnipeg Jets Game Offer for December 3 

WHAT’S ON: The Winnipeg Jets is offering special discount rates to physicians and medical learners for the Tuesday, December 3 game vs. St. Louis. Your ticket includes a Winnipeg Jets travel mug as a special gift. 

THE DETAILS: Tickets start at $40 plus fees, with more expensive but still discounted options available in the lower bowl. The event is billed as an appreciation for emergency services workers, but it is open to physicians and medical learners regardless of your specialty or place of work.

🎟️ Click here to buy up to 8 tickets. If you want to plan for a larger group, contact Braden Fleury with the Winnipeg Jets sales team at bfleury@tnse.com or at 204-926-5613.

04

Nominate a Deserving Doc!

Our annual awards are a highlight of the year for Doctors Manitoba and our members, celebrating the human, courageous and committed physicians dedicated to advancing the medical profession and improving care for their patients. The awards are the highest honour bestowed upon physicians by physicians.

The deadline to receive nominations is December 15, 2024.

🏆 Click here to learn how to nominate a colleague for a Doctors Manitoba Award

Updates this week include the latest on the Government’s Health Listening Tour, Shared Health’s Access Improvement Model, the first reported case of Mpox Clade Ib in the province, and details about the plan to add 800 hip and knee surgeries to the Selkirk Regional Health Centre.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Here are the most read and important recent stories, in case you missed them:

• VECTRS change coming Tuesday, December 3 for physicians looking for a specialty consultation for urgent or emergent cases or interfacility transfer support. Find full details and key resources here.
• CPD Claim-As-You-Learn is here! Last week, our President Dr. Randy Guzman sent a note to all fully-licensed members about a major change to our continuing professional development rebate allowing you to claim reimbursement for CPD expenses as you learn, rather than waiting 12-16 months. Read the update here.
• Help fix burdensome insurance and employer forms. Doctors Manitoba needs your input. Find out how you can help. 
• Rural Health Care Check-Up — with focus on the lack of staffing at the Brandon ER, we’re also hearing concerns about ER coverage in other communities. Let us know how physician coverage an health care capacity is in your community by taking a brief 3-question survey.

EVENTS & CPD

The Hippocratic High Notes Winter Concert 

The first female physician choir in Winnipeg is having a mini concert on Sunday the 8th of December at 2pm at the Bethel Mennonite Church at 45 Stafford street in Winnipeg. The concert is free, but donations of non-perishable food items are encouraged and appreciated. 

Billing for Addictions in Primary Care Webinar 

Interested in incorporating Addictions Care into your practice? Join Doctors Manitoba's Billing for Addictions Medicine in Primary Care Webinar, December 16 beginning at 5:30pm. Register here!

CBTm for Physicians and Medical Learners

Learn the skills that can help you manage your mood better and cope with high levels of worry.

Choose the course option that best fits your scheduling and learning needs:

1. A set of five 90-minute facilitator-led Zoom classes. The next set of zoom classes will be Tuesdays January 14 to February 11, 2025, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
2. A set of 10 90-minute facilitator-led Zoom classes. The next set of Zoom classes will be Tuesdays March 4 to May 6, 2025, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
3. An online self-directed course with five modules (mirroring the facilitator-led classes but offering more scheduling flexibility)

Learn more and register here.

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