Baby Steps 2021

Actionable and realistic care strategies for the substance-involved pregnancy.

A co-presentation of Obstetricians, Midwives, Addiction Medicine Physicians, Infectious Disease Specialists, Neonatologists, Nurses, Indigenous Health Advocates, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Pharmacists, and Clinical Researchers.

Research hosted by Manitoba iMAPLES

Join us for a day of interprofessional collaboration, addressing a growing area of need in our communities, including people with lived experience.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this event participants should be able to:

• Cultivate collaborative strategies to reduce congenital syphilis.
• Develop a team approach to manage substance-associated agitation in pregnancy, labour and delivery.
• Explore new evidence for harm reduction with opioid-involved pregnancy and newborn care.
• Address the history of birth alerts and infant-apprehension as barriers to care; new directions in Manitoba.
• Learn from the lived-experience: Discuss the ways that care models can promote healing or perpetuate harms.

This event addresses the CanMEDS competencies of: Medical Expert, Collaborator, Communicator, Professional, Health Advocate and Scholar

Session Topics:

1. Reducing congenital syphilis
   o Co presented by pediatrics and outreach nursing
2. Managing agitation in pregnancy, labour and delivery
   o Co presented by obstetrics, psychiatry and midwifery
3.  Harm Reduction and opioid-involved pregnancy – new trends
   o Co presented by addictions medicine and pharmacy
4. Birth alerts, apprehension and barriers to care
   o Co presented by nurse practitioners and social work
5. The lived experience: panel discussion
   o impact of stigma and creating safe care access
   o impact of homelessness with practical approaches
   o impact of previous custody loss and bridging trust
   o impact of racism and amplifying the Indigenous perspective

Baby Steps Agenda v4

Registration:

Physicians: $175
Other health professionals: $65
Residents/students: $30

As Per CPD Medicine policy, the department requires any refund or cancelation request to be submitted in writing up to fourteen (14) days prior to the program or session start date . A $50 administrative fee will be withheld to cover transaction and administrative costs. Refund or cancelation requests made less than fourteen (14) days notice may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

This event is available via ZOOM. You will be emailed connection information 24/48 hours prior to the event.

Only paid registrants can receive credits and access speakers’ presentations post-event.

Study Credits:

This event was co-developed with the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for up to 5.5 Mainpro+ credits.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for a maximum of 5.5 hours.

Participants should only claim credit for the actual number of hours attended.

The University of Manitoba CPD Medicine Program is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME).