The Refresher Course is virtual and asynchronous for 2022
Here is what’s in it for you:
- 26 Plenary presentations
- 40 Workshops (up to 8 in parallel)
- Live question and answer period for each talk from Dec 5-7, 2022
- Asynchronous on-demand recordings and option to submit questions Dec 12, 2022 - March 13, 2023
Schedule
Monday
Dec 5
08:15 - Welcome Remarks
Ivan Rohan
08:30 - Plenary 1
- Cardiology game changers 20222
Jacqueline Joza - What's up in HTN - 2022 Update
Sheldon Tobe / Rahul Jain - MAID - What is your role as non MAID providers?
David Dannenbaum - CHF 2021 Ggidelines update
Nadia Gianetti
11:00 - Workshops A
- ECG Interpretation for the FP Office
Jacqueline Joza -
C-CHANGE guideline update 2022 - Bringing together Canada's CV focused guidelines
Sheldon Tobe / Rahul Jain -
CKD and cysts: Where two worlds meet
Irith Lebovich -
Lipid guidelines 2021
George Thanassoulis -
Controversial cases in thrombosis - The clot thickens
Carolyne Elbaz -
Migraine toolkit 2022 update
Robert Altman -
Get inVulved
Samantha Benlolo -
Dying to help: Pearls for symptom control for the non-PC physician
Jean Zigby
13:00 - Plenary 2
- Common GIM consults that could be avoided
Luc Trudeau - Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Serge Mayrand - How to outfox Big Pharma: Providing the best diabetes therapies to our patients at a lower cost to society
Jean-Francois Yale - The evolving role of insulin therapy for type 2 diabetes over past 30 years
Tina Kader
15:30 - Workshops B
- Incidentalomas - When to be concerned?
Luc Trudeau -
Interactive case studies in type 2 diabetes
Jean-Francois Yale -
Insulin pumps 101
Tina Kader -
Approach to early cognitive impairment in the office
Fadi Massoud -
Celiac disease
Yidan Lu -
Demystifying pediatric abdominal pain
Terry Sigman -
How the pandemic has affected the mental health of adolescents and how to prepare for the longer-term consequences
Perry Adler / Banafcheh Hejazi -
Tough cases of lower urinary tract symptoms - latest therapeutic options
Peter Chan
Tuesday
Dec 6
08:30 - Plenary 3
- A virus we can treat: Treating Hepatitis C in the office
Vanessa Pasztor - Palliative Care
Justin Sanders - Before you send them home…Informed discharge - lessons from the CMPA
Janet Nuth - Mending the broken heart after COVID-19 infection
Thao Huynh
11:00 - Workshops C
- Alcohol use disorder: Can I really help my patient?
Vanessa Pasztor -
Managing end stage symptoms of CHF/COPD
Justin Sanders -
Iffy about Mife? Improving access to medical abortion in family practice
Samantha Cogan -
Safe prescribing during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Sylvia Duong -
Down but not out: Mental health disability management in the new age
Fiore Lalla -
An approach to wound care - From diagnosis to dressings
Mark Karanofsky -
Challenging patient encounters: Communication and documentation tips
Janet Nuth -
Meno - Metro - Oligo: A simplified approach to abnormal uterine
My Lan Graziani
13:00 - Plenary 4
- Breast cancer screening in average and high risk patients in 2022
Stephanie Wong - Indigenous Health
Alex McComber - Vaccine Up-date 2022: will the new technologies introduced during the pandemic change the vaccine landscape?
Brian Ward - Birthmarks - When should I worry?
Fatemeh Jafarian
15:30 - Workshops D
- Updates on breast cancer pathology and treatment
Stephanie Wong -
Travel vaccines: infections - including COVID - that can make a trip particularly memorable
Brian Ward -
Am I walking the cultural safety path as a family physican?
Alex McComber -
Immigrant health - Practical pearls for your practice!
Lavanya Narasiah -
Common ocular emergencies
Marino Discepola -
Hip clicks, In-toeing, Bow Legs, Knock Knees, Flat Feet – Who, (if any) should be referred?
Thierry Benaroch -
Caring for transgender and non-binary patients
Rachel Bond -
All live Sunscreens: Why, what, how?
Fatemeh Jafarian
Wednesday
Dec 7
08:30 - Plenary 5
- Are we managing menopause differently in 2022?
Cleve Ziegler -
Rheum for the “whole” patient: An opportunity for collaboration with primary care
Michael Starr -
Sports medicine pearls
J. Scott Delaney -
Hematuria pearls: Tell me something I don't already know
Tiina Podymow
11:00 - Workshops E
- Troubleshooting biologics: What the GP should know
Michael Starr - Treatment resistant depression
Daniel Zigman - Seeing back pain in the office
J. Scott Delaney - ER Procedures for Non-ER Docs: Managing the airway, placing a chest tube, getting into the circulation
H. Mitchell Shulman - COPD: Who does, and does not, benefit from triple therapy?
Pierre Ernst - Counting Heffalumps: Insomnia in the elderly (a geriatrician’s POV)
Wendy Chiu - End-stage renal disease: Following a patient with eGFR <25 ml/min
Tiina Podymow - Community management of pediatric eating disorders
Holly Agostino
13:00 - Plenary 6
- Antibiotics - Shorter is better
Trong Tien Nguyen - Doctor, my child snores like my husband. Is that a problem?
Sheila Jacob - Pediatric appendicitis: Have we figured it out?!
Emil Sherif - Right patient, right target, right time: Radiologically-guided Injections for pain management
Mohan Radhakrishna - Pediatric asthma
Christine McCusker - Melanoma vs. pigmented lesions (A Practical Approach)
Beatrice Wang
16:20 - Closing Remarks
Ivan Rohan
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