Joint Collaborative Committees

Online course: Finding and Creating Joy in Work
2021-04-06 - 2021-06-29 | Virtual
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​An epidemic of burnout among health care professionals is affecting quality, safety, and health care system performance. To help reverse the worrying trend, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) partnered with experts around the world to create Finding and​ Creating Joy in Work,​ beginning April 6, 2021. This 12-week online course with coaching is full of new thinking, resources, strategies, frameworks​, and solutions will help workforces truly thrive — not just survive. ​
Given the popularity of the course on Finding and Creating Joy in Work among the participants over the last couple of years, the Specialist Services and Shared Care Committees via their Physician Leadership Scholarship are once again sponsoring (covering the tuition costs of) specialists and family physicians in BC to participate in the course.

To register, please follow the below steps:

Register for the course in this link
Fill out this application form and email it to jcctraining@doctorsofbc.ca along with your receipt to claim your tuition fee. (VP of medicine’s signature is NOT a requirement)

Deadline to register and send the completed application to jcctraining@doctorsofbc.ca is April 3, 2021.

Dialogue on Virtual Care: A learning exchange with Kaiser Permanente
2021-06-07 08:15 - 12:00 (America/Vancouver)
UPDATE (June 2021): Read the event summary.

Stakeholders are invited to join a province-wide online knowledge exchange about adopting virtual health care services as a complement to in-person primary care. This event is hosted by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC).

Keynote speaker Dr Khang Nguyen is the Physician Director of the Virtual Medical Center (VMC) and Clinical Call Center Kaiser Permanente, which administers one of the largest non-profit health care plans in the USA. Kaiser Permanente’s mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of their members and the communities they serve.

With nearly 20 years of experience with family medicine and Kaiser Permanente, Dr Nguyen is leading innovative improvements to health care experiences for physicians and patients. He has created a single point of access for patients and physicians, bringing together thousands of physicians covering 4.7 million patients. The VMC serves about 22 million calls across Southern California each year.

Discussions will focus on how virtual care can support access, relationships and continuity between patients and providers.

Hear how virtual care can support team-based care, care coordination, message management and preventative care across a region.
Learn about the use of technology in a way that provides person-centered care and the healing of a relationship based approach to care.
Connect and network with a province-wide group of health care stakeholders.

BC doctors can earn 2.5 CME MainPro+ Group Learning credits as this event is certified by the UBC Continuing Professional Development and meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Please contact the GPSC for additional information including event registration.
