Brandon Primary Care Fall Conference 2018

The Prairie Mountain Health Region is again collaborating with U of M CPD Medicine to offer two popular conferences (in the Fall and Spring) designed to meet learning needs identified by primary care providers in Brandon and surrounding areas. Sessions include a wide range of timely and challenging topics relevant to physicians working in outpatient and  inpatient settings who are looking to enhance clinical competence and improve patient care.

Agenda

0800 – 0825 Registration & Breakfast

0825 – 0830 Welcome & Introduction

Corné Vlok, MBChB, CCFP

0830 – 0915 Migraine

Arturo Tamayo, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Neurology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

0915 – 1000 Settler Harm Reduction

Ian Whetter MD CCFP, Director – Alan Klass Memorial Health Equity, Program Community Health Sciences Max Rady College of Medicine

1000 – 1015 Nutrition Break

1015 – 1100 Trauma to the Head in the Workplace: When is it a Concussion?

Cam Stacey, MD, CCFP, Medical Advisor, Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba

1100 – 1145 Worklessness after an Injury or Illness

Cam Stacey, MD, CCFP, Medical Advisor, Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba

1145 – 1300 Lunch & Visit Display Booths

1300 – 1415 Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

Kevin Hamilton, BSP, MSc (Pharm) C.W. Wiebe and Agassiz Medical Centres, Winkler and Morden

1415 – 1500 Drug Impaired Driving

Neil Swirsky, MD, Medical Advisor Manitoba Public Insurance

1500 – 1515 Nutrition Break

1515 – 1600 Management of CHF in Primary Care and Acute Care Settings

Jonathan Gabor, MSc, MD ,FRCPC, SCH, Internal Medicine Concordia Hospital and Selkirk Regional Health Centre, Medical Lead, Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority

1600 – 1645 Physician Burnout

Ann Loewen, MD, CCFP, Family & Emergency Physician at Southern Health-Santé Sud

1645 Closing Remarks

Objectives:

• Identify migraine headache symptoms, treatment and management
• Consider the variable diagnostic criteria for concussion
• Assess fitness for activity after concussion
• Appreciate the concept of worklessness as it applies to the health and well-being of your patient and your community
• Differentiate impairment from disability
• Assess fitness for work from the perspectives of risk, capacity and tolerance
• Examine settler harm reduction
• Review updated opioid prescribing guidelines for the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain
• Examine the evidence base that supports the guidelines and apply guiding principles to your patient’s care plan
• Summarize the physician’s role in the evaluation of drug impaired driving including legal reporting requirements
• Describe substance use disorder and the effects of drugs on driving performance and upcoming changes to impaired driving legislation
• Review of the 2017 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Guidelines for the Management of Congestive Heart Failure: Pearls for Primary Care
• Recognize physician burnout and understand its implications
• Apply strategies to decrease stress at work and at home

Provide the conference name when booking your hotel room to receive the preferred rate.

Brandon Fall Conference printable brochure