December 13, 2024

This week’s Vitals: 756 words / 3 min read

See top stories this week about rural medicine, a request for your feedback on FM+, and a call for help to assess med school applicants. Plus health system updates and a feel-good radio show about why Manitobans love their doctors!

Feedback on Family Medicine Plus

We need for your help! Take a couple of minutes to share your feedback about how the first half year of Family Medicine Plus is going. Feedback from family physicians and other specialists are welcomed!

• How FM+ is helping you deliver better access to, and quality of, care for your patients
• Patients who finally were attached to a family doctor
• Existing family physicians who have come back to longitudinal primary care practice because of FM+
• Early career family physicians who chose to practice primary care in Manitoba because of FM+
• Specialists who have noticed how improved primary care is impacting their practice

Send your feedback to practiceadvice@doctorsmanitoba.ca.

Of course, we also want to hear about any aspects of FM+ that aren’t working well for you too!

TOP STORIES

01

Rural Medicine Spotlight

334 words / 1.5 min read

Doctors Manitoba President Dr. Randy Guzman and DRMB staff met physicians and health system leaders in Morden and Winkler this week to learn about what is working well and what help they need. This followed a press conference on Tuesday where we warned the public to be on the lookout for ER closures this holiday season. Click through to read our account of how physician shortages are straining access to health care and our rural ER public advisory.

02

Help Assess Med School Applications

347 words / 1.5 min read / For all members

The Max Rady College of Medicine is reviewing applications for next year’s incoming class (entering August 2025). Volunteers are needed for the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI), a series of scenarios that evaluate personal attributes that are deemed essential for competent and caring physicians. This is open to both faculty and community-based physicians.

Click here to learn more and apply!

03

🤗 Why do you love your doctor?

Our President Dr. Randy Guzman joined the noon hour show on CBC to take calls from Manitobans about why they love their doctor! This feel good news coverage heard from multiple patients with heart melting stories about their doctors. Dr. Guzman also talked about our DRMB Annual Awards.

Listen or watch the segment here (about 20 minutes).

Don’t forget, nominations are due December 15 for our Annual Awards! If you need a few extra days to get a nomination in, email kjohnson@doctorsmanitoba.ca to make a request for an extension.

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

04

Medical Consultant Opportunity

Doctors Manitoba is looking for a Medical Consultant – Physician & Medical Learner Health and Wellness, a new and rewarding role that will work closely with the Doctors Manitoba Physician Health Team to support physicians and medical learners throughout Manitoba. 

OF NOTE: This role is for a medical doctor who will contribute to designing and delivering services that meet the needs of individual clients and the broader community of Manitoba physicians.

DEADLINE: Apply by Dec. 20, 2024.

Get the latest health system updates, including CancerCare’s new prevention campaign, a public health advisory on invasive meningococcal disease, and a reminder from Age and Opportunity (A&O) about their services, including for possible elder abuse situations.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

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

• Tracking Specialists Wait Time Learn more and share your views.
• HIV Report and Clinical Reminders See this summary of the report, along with clinical reminders from Public Health.
• 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 and health care capacity is in your community by taking a brief 3-question survey.

EVENTS & CPD

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!

Klinic’s Providing Gender-Affirming Care Workshop 

Saturday, Jan. 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Klinic Community Health (167 Sherbrook St). The workshop includes two sessions: Transgender and Gender Diversity Awareness and Inclusion, and Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy. Learn more and register at klinic.mb.ca/gender-affirming-care/.

CBTm for Physicians and Medical Learners

CBTm is a set of courses designed to offer education and skills training in evidence-based self-management strategies to support the mental well-being of physicians and medical learners, delivered in a supportive peer environment. All courses are CPD accredited.

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).

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.

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Every step of the way.

Your health & well-being are important to us.

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