Continuing medical education and professional development opportunities – December 2024

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Explore CME and PD opportunities from a variety of organizations, including AHS, University of Calgary and University of Alberta.

Coming January 2025: Specialty Access Webinars for Primary Care Providers and Staff

Improving the surgical journey involves building new processes to support how patients, primary care providers and surgeons navigate through the surgical system. The Specialty Access Webinar Series, accredited by the Alberta College of Family Physicians, aims to assist primary care providers (and clinic staff) to understand and effectively utilize Specialty Access resources within their practices.

• Specialty Access Webinars will be hosted per Zone for primary care providers (and staff) in January 2025.

• Register here before January 13, 2025, to save your place. You will receive registration confirmation. Zoom calendar invites will be sent within 1-2 business days after registering.

Specialty Access collaborates with primary care, specialty care and patient and family advisors to provide support for all points of a patient’s specialty care journey. The goal of Specialty Access is to continuously improve processes and services for primary care to access specialty care, including:

• Provincially, co-designed clinical, patient and referral pathways that provide clear direction for care.
• Improved specialty advice services for primary care.
• Improved processes for referrals to specialty care through Facilitated Access to Specialized Treatment (FAST).
• Distributed referrals to the most appropriate surgeon or surgical team with the shortest wait time.

Upcoming U of C Office of Continuing Medical Education & Professional Development accredited CPD opportunities:

• SUPPORT for PPIP (virtual, ongoing)
• Clinical Reasoning Course (virtual, Jan. 22)
• Common Fractures & Dislocation Course (in person, Jan. 23)
• 27th Annual Rural Anesthesia for GP Anesthesiologists Conference (in person, Jan. 24)
• 41st Annual Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals (in person, Jan. 24–26)
• Medical Record Keeping (virtual, Jan. 31)

Upcoming U of A Office of Lifelong Learning (L3) events: 

• MyL3Plan supports Practice Improvement (PPI)
• Beyond Blood Sugar: Improving Kidney and Lipid Care in Diabetes
  • Three sessions: Jan. 21, Feb. 11, March 4
• Liver in the Balance: Tackling Fatty Liver Disease in Primary Care
  • Two sessions: Jan. 28 & Feb. 4
• Virtual Obesity Course
  • Four sessions: weekly starting Tuesday, March 4 (omit March 25 & April 1)
• Cardiovascular issues in Primary Care
  • Three sessions: Mar. 13, April 10, April 24
• Crucial Conversations
  • Five sessions: weekly starting Wednesday, April 9 (omit April 30)