Mini MEDS: An Evening of Evidence – March 17, 2022

This event will only be available virtually.

The link to connect will be emailed to registered participants 24 hours prior to the event.

Like the MEDS Conference, the mini version will be packed with practical clinical insights, as always casting a critical eye on the balance of benefit and harm of the interventions we prescribe every day. It features accomplished speakers that will entertain and sharpen your judgement as you make therapeutic decisions with your patients.

Objectives

• Identify the strengths and limitations of the medical evidence for common health conditions. (Scholar, Medical expert)
• Explore practical approaches to challenging therapeutic issues using clinical evidence and clinician expertise. (Medical expert, Scholar)
• Understand and apply an analytic approach to diagnostic reasoning (Medical expert, Scholar)
• Understand the responsibility of health professionals to effectively incorporate patient preference and values into therapeutic decision-making. (Communicator)

Audience

This is an inter-professional conference targeting all specialist disciplines, physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, residents, medical and pharmacy students, and other health professionals.

Agenda

6:30 Welcome – Jamie Falk and Shawn Bugden

6:40  Evidence in Review – Jamie Falk and Shawn Bugden

7:05  5(ish) “Tools” that have changed my practice – Tina Korownyk

7:25  Outpatient COVID: “Positive” Treatments for Positive Patients – Mike Kolber and  Tony Nickonchuk

7:45  Q&A 

8:05  When Less is More – Scott Garrison

8:25  Diagnostic Reasoning: more reasonable than you think – James McCormack

8:45  Q&A 

9:00 Closing Remarks

Registration

Physician: $50.00
Pharmacists: $50.00
Other Health Professional: $50.00
Resident: no charge
Student: no charge

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 2.5 Mainpro+ credits.

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)

**A $35 administrative fee will be applied if cancelled 14 days or more before the event date. No refunds will be given past this date**