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National ACES 2010 in Winnipeg a resounding success
2010-07-16Residents trained from all Canadian Critical Care Programs
CRI's team travelled west for this ground breaking course, held at the stellar venue of the University of Manitoba's Clinical Learning and Simulation Centre from July 8-9th. Residents from all Critical Care programs across Canada benefitted from the expert instruction of the best in Critical Care Nationwide. We were hosted and sponsored by University of Manitoba and want to acknowledge that this course would not have been possible without the generous donations of funds and facility made by so many of University of Manitoba faculties(Thank you to: Dept of Emergency Medicine, Dept. of Medicine, Dept of Anesthesia and the Section of Critical Care)
Special recognition is due to Dr. Faisal Siddiqui, Course Director 2010, his impeccable attention to detail in hosting this event and to his amazing team comprised of Dr. Dean Bell, Dr. Robert Brown, Dr. Luke Terrett, Dr. Jay Ross, Dr. Thomas Jacob. Also, we want to acknowledge the entire group of dedicated Instructor trainees who took part in the Instructor certification course on the 7th and joined the amazing group of RN and RTs to help us maintain the incredible level of instruction over the entire 3 days.
Dr. Dean Sandham was our keynote speaker and addressed the residents at our meet and greet event to pass on some of his vast experience over his long and illustrious career. His mentorship was key to some of our Master instructors when they were starting out so it was especially meaningful for him to share as this group begins their Critical Care residency.
Special thanks from our CRI team to Mary-Anne Henderson, Program Coordinator for all her help in coordination onsite in Winnipeg; to the wonderful/tireless technical help from Edward Walker and Manju Balachandar at the Sim centre, and to receptionist Gloria de Paz-Hyrniuk for all they did for us during our amazing stay in Winnipeg.
We also want to thank Pfizer and Fresenius Kabi for their generous donations of unrestricted educational grants.
National ACES 2010 in Winnipeg was a resounding success and we want to thank all of our incredible faculty for donating their very valuable time to teach at National every year, the generosity and expertise of our instructors is the key to the continued success of our National Course.
More to come soon about National ACES 2011!!!
Angele Landriault wins Nursing Award
2010-06-14University Silver Medal (University of Ottawa)
Congratulations to Angele Landriault, RN, Senior Curriculum Development Officer for CRI, on winning the Universtiy of Ottawa Silver Medal in Nursing. This award is given in recognition of her achieving the second-highest standing in Nursing.
The Joy's and Challenges of Providing Health Care in Nunavut
2010-04-20CRI and TOH presents
The Joy's and Challenges of
Providing Health Care in Nunavut
Presented by:
Shahin Shirzad, MD
Chief of Emergency Medicine (2008-2009)
Qikiqtani General Hospital
Iqaluit, Nunavut
Thursday, April 29, 2010
12:15
ICU Conference Room – General Campus (W2235)
With videoconferencing to:
McCoy Conference Room – Civic Campus (F210)
Pizza Lunch provided
Sponsored by:
CRI Critical Care Education Network • The Ottawa Hospital• RBC • Health Canada •
Qikiqtani Hospital • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Canada
As partners in the Project entitled: Critical Care Training for Health Care Practitioners Serving Aboriginal Communities; A pilot project proposal to train physicians in Iqaluit
Health Innovation Award presented to Dr.Pierre Cardinal/CRI
2010-04-092010 OCRI Awards honour CRI
OCRI, Ottawa's lead economic development agency honoured Ottawa's best and brightest for the innovative work and contributions to the city's knowledge based sector on Thursday April 8th 2010 at the 15th annual OCRI Awards gala at the Hilton Lac Leamy.
THe Health Innovation award was presented to Dr. Pierre Cardinal, CRI Critical Care Education Network, in recognition of the revolutionary impact of CRI on the delivery of Critical Care education resulting in measurable improvements in critical care including reductions in incidents, including deaths,in Ottawa and elsewhere in the country.
National ACES New CAE-ICCU Bedside Ultrasound in the ICU seminar, July 7th 2010
2010-03-16Bedside Ultrasound in the ICU seminar
CAE-ICCU Bedside Ultrasound in the ICU seminar, July 7th 2010
(given as a pre-course to CRI Critical Care Education Network's National ACES conference)
- Experiment a unique, highly clinical program composed of a lot of hands-on sessions as part of the didactic material will be covered online before the course through interactive e-learning modules.
- Come and practice scanning of various acute cardiac pathologies on revolutionary high-fidelity echocardiography simulators !
- Learn under the expert supervision of highly skilled experienced, front-line intensivists and sonographers
- Excellent ratio of device to participants of 1:3.
- Get CME credits for both completing the e-learning modules and the live seminar (total of 14 category 1 CME credits) .
- Learn how to implement a bedside ultrasound program in your own institution
>> Click here for more details and to register
National ACES 2010 to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba
2010-01-20July 8th and 9th, 2010
CRI is very pleased to announce that National ACES 2010 will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba at Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre from July 8th to 9th, 2010. Dr. Faisal Siddiqui has been named the Course Director for this year. We gratefully acknowledge the donations from the University of Manitoba to support this National course. We are looking forward to travelling west this year and to another very successful National Course!!
For further information please contact: michelle.godin@criedunet.org
H1N1 Collaborative Forum
2009-08-31Newly formed online Community of Practice for health care professionals dealing with patients with H1N1
The H1N1 Collaborative Forum is a newly formed online Community of Practice for health care professionals dealing with patients with H1N1. It is likely that the forum, as it evolves, will have partitioning with different levels of access granted. The site is currently hosted in a secure SharePoint environment by the Champlain LHIN and maintained by CRI Critical Care Education Network (CRI; www.CRIedunet.ca), a not for profit organization. As a Community of Practice, all site members have the ability to post and share information, edit documents and contribute to discussions. Some current features include: repositories of official publications and shared practice tools (e.g. triage protocols, infection control signage); a Wiki dedicated to H1N1; case reports and summaries; links to educational resources; nation-wide videoconference live presentations and archives (see the previous two site news for the initial H1N1 webinars); news feeds from PHAC and PubMed; discussion forums; and blogs. Please contact CRI for more information regarding this initiative.Archive now available for presentation by Dr. Roth(July 31)
2009-08-06H1N1: Infection Control Measures
Special thanks to OTN for their great work in making this event possible and accessible nationally. To view archived presentation please use the following link:
http://mediasite.otn.ca/mediasite41/Viewer/?peid=7b77fd7c6f7442988fd3c5df96031b8a
Archive now available for presentation by Dr. Kumar( June 29th)
2009-07-30Lessons from the ICU: the Winnipeg H1N1 Outbreak
Special thanks to OTN for their great work in making this event possible and accessible nationally.
To view archived presentation please use the following link:
http://mediasite.otn.ca/mediasite41/Viewer/?peid=578f1f7d4fd94dc0a0599f635cce2593
H1N1 Telemedicine Conferences (July 29 and 31)
2009-07-28The Ottawa Hospital in cooperation with CRI Critical Care Education Network and other partners are pleased to present two telemedicine conferences around the topic of H1N1.
Topics: Lessons from the ICU: the Winnipeg H1N1 Outbreak and Infection Control Measures
Presentation 1: Lessons from the ICU: the Winnipeg H1N1 Outbreak
Presenters: Dr. Anand Kumar, Associate Professor, department of Internal Medicine, Medical microbiology and pharmacology; and Dr. Kim Wiebe, MD, FRCPC, MPH
Date: July 29th, 2009Time: 14:00 – 16:00 Eastern Time/ 13:00 – 15:00 Central Time
Modality: Video Conference
Location: Broadcast from Winnipeg Health Sciences, Room number JBRC777
Objectives: At the end of this presentation, the target audience will be able to:
Increase their awareness of the potential severity of the disease
Understand management approach of the Intensivists in the Winnipeg ICU
Appreciate some of the resource management, surge capacity issued face by Winnipeg
Audience: Physicians and Health Care Professionals
Presentation 2: Infection Control Measures
Presenter: Virginia R. Roth, MD FRCPC: Director, Infection Control and Control Program, The Ottawa Hospital
Date: Friday July 31st, 2009
Time: 12:00 – 13:00 Eastern Time
Modality: Video Conference
Location: The Ottawa Hospital General ICU Conference room
Objectives: At the end of this presentation, the target audience will be able to:
Identify methods to detect patients who may be infected
Describe the principles of transmission in the health care setting.
Describe measures that can limit/prevent transmission of the disease.
Audience: Physicians and Health Care Professionals
REGISTRATION
To participate in this event by videoconference, contact your local Telemedicine Coordinator to help reserve a room and system at your site that is videoconference enabled.
SITE COORDINATORS
Please self-register your site for this event. For those who do not have Ncompass training, please submit appropriate system information to scheduling@otn.ca. If you require assistance please contact events@otn.ca
CIHR Meeting, Planning and Dissemination Grant
2009-05-22To Benefit Critical Care Education in the Champlain LHIN
CRI has been awarded a Meeting, Planning, Dissemination(MPD) grant from Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI) program. This grant will be used to bring together educators/researchers/clinicians and community hospitals to plan the rigorous delivery and evaluation of community critical care education in the Champlain LHIN.
2009 Alan Blizzard Award Recipients
2009-04-09Patti O'Brien, Tim Willett and Brad Genereaux are members of the collaborative team receiving the STLHE award
This year's receipients of the Alan Blizzard Award are the nine members of the collaborative team from the University of Ottawa and St. Paul University - Peter Barnes, Susan Brajtman, Brad Genereaux, Pippa Hall, Daniel Mroz, Patti O'Brien, Beckie Walbourne (Tingley), Lynda Weaver and Tim Willett. This team and project were selected for "Complex care, complex issues, innovations in development and content for effective team learning online." CRI wants to congratulate all award recipients for their contributions and proudly acknowledges the contributions of team members from CRI Patti O'Brien(CEO), Tim Willett (Manager of Curriculum Development & Research Initiatives) and Brad Genereaux (Programming Consultant). Please see the link below for more details of this important Interprofessonial Education collaboration.
http://www.mcmaster.ca/stlhe/whats.new.html.CRI Instructor and Board member Dr. Peter Brindley quoted in National Post
2009-03-26"The important lesson here is that we can't leave medical education to chance alone."
CRI Board Member and Instructor Dr. Peter Brindley is quoted in National Post Monday March 23, 2009 in article entitled: "Young Doctors learn bad habits from TV medical dramas."
Please see link below.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1419824
nationalpost.comNational ACES 2009
2009-01-27Hamilton, ON July 9-10th
CRI is pleased to announce that our annual National ACES course will be held at Hamilton Health Sciences from July 9th - 10th 2009 (with an Instructor Certification course on July 8th). Dr. Alison Fox Robichaud has graciously agreed to be our National ACES course director and host this event in Hamilton. The goal of ACES is to prepare incoming criticial care subspecialty residents fo their new clinical role: to ensure baseline clinical competence, address patient safety issues and conflict resolution and increase exposure to medical simulation. We look forward to another very successful course.
Society of Rural Physicians, Simulation Workshop
2008-11-28Sheraton Center, November 26th 2008
CRI was able to partner with the SRPC as a conference sponsor and by presenting a one day workshop on Nov. 26th in Toronto.The Mega Codes Simulation Workshop focused on the early management of patients presenting with critical illnesses. It included a one-hour presentation on the principles of early resuscitation focusing on crisis and resource management (CRM). The presentation was followed by three two-hour sessions using high-fidelity simulation which gave each participant ample opportunity to practice CRM and to receive feedback. This workshop was designed to give participants the ability to feel much more confident in caring for critically ill patients, managing a team, and applying the principles of CRM during real-life crisis. As a not for profit organization, we look forward to future collaboration with the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada in order to continue our commitment to empowering health care providers and ensuring improved access to quality critical care everywhere.
CCRT Courses in Honolulu, Hawaii
2008-11-28From October 31 to November 4th, CRI Instructors received a warm welcome at the Tripler Army Medical Centre in Honolulu where they offered a Pediatric Critical Care Response Team (CCRT) course, an Adult CCRT Instructor certification course as well as an Adult CCRT course. The course was a success and very well received. Tripler Army Medical Centre now has certified CCRT instructors and will be able to ensure ongoing training for their rapid response team.
CRI at CCCF Toronto, Nov. 11-13th
2008-10-30Come visit us at the CRI Booth
CRI is pleased to be an exhibitor at the Critical Care Canada Forum(Metro Toronto Convention Centre) from Nov. 11-13th, 2008. Please come visit us at our booth to discuss upcoming courses and CRI current projects/direction.National ACES 2008
2008-07-23Nat. ACES was a resounding success!!
From June 26-27th 2008, 41 fellows from universities all across Canada converged on Maisonneuve Rosemont Hospital in Montreal for 2 full days of training due to the very generous donation of time by the best physicians in the Canadian Critical Care community. This annual event was hosted and organized by CRI in partnership with the Director of National ACES 2008, Dr. Francois Marquis.
Along with the usual curriculum of ABCO (Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Other), and High Fidelity Simulation; participants were also trained in various topics including the new SimuCase, Phone Sim, Conflict and Sepsis Guidelines. One day prior to the start of National ACES, 13 participants took part in a one day “Train the trainers, Instructor Certification course” given by Dr. John Kim.
Special thanks to the following instructors for donating their teaching time and passing on their expertise in order to further Critical Care in Canada:
Abrahamson, Dr. Simon
Brindley, Dr. Peter
Burke, Dr. Don
Cardinal, Dr. Pierre
Chacon, Dr. Marco
Chiu, Dr. Michelle
Dubois, Dr. Marc-Jacques
Fox Robichaud, Dr. Alison
Gallacher, Dr. Bill
Haddara, Dr. Wael
Jayaraman, Dr. Dev
Kerr, Dr. Mary Catherine
Kim, Dr. John
Kropelin, Dr. Bruce
Kubelik, Dr. Dalibor
Neilipovitz, Dr. David
Peachey, Dr. Greg
Reynolds, Dr. Stuart
Siddiqui, Dr. Faisal
Soth, Dr. Mark
Thanks also to the following RN’s and RT’s for volunteering their time:
Annie Bélanger
Lissa Cardinal
Martin Dabruzze
Alexandre Deslauriers St-Jean
Emidio Farias
Johanne Harvey
Isabelle Megantic
Chester Moran
And to the IT Dept. of Maisonneuve Hospital for all their phenomenal help above and beyond the call of duty.
Dr Conleth O Maonaigh was kind enough to be the keynote speaker at our Meet and Great evening. Everyone who attended greatly benefitted from his perspective and vast experience.
Extra special thanks are extended to Dr. Francois Marquis for all his hard work in organizing this educational event and also for planning the very successful social evening for faculty and fellows at “Cabaret du Roy” To see photos click here!
As a result of Dr. Marquis and his tireless promotion of National ACES 2008, this event generated a lot of buzz and coverage from the French media in Montreal. TVA News Coverage Video
National ACES would not have been possible without the generous donations of unrestricted educational grants from the following sponsors:
Platinum Sponsors:
· Eli Lilly Medical Education Department
· Fresenius Kabi
Gold Sponsor:· Masimo
Silver Sponsors:· Covidien
· Draeger
· Laerdal
· Novo Nordisk
· Vitalaire
· Verathon
· Wyeth