Full day workshop that will take place as a virtual event, online.

Date: Saturday, January 9, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Maximum Participation: 30 ophthalmologists
Facilitators: Rev. Andrew Blake and Dr. Agnes Wong
Language: Presentation will be in English
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApc-mhqT4qGNE3lmF_7TLPCzMUWYQXZr8f

Physician wellness is an important issue and a growing concern within the medical profession. The recently released CMA National Physician Health Survey (2018) revealed that physicians experienced high burnout (30%), depression (34%), and lifetime suicidal ideation (19%). In addition, surgical specialists had 1.74 higher odds (74% increase in odds) to report low emotional well-being than those practising in other areas. Research has demonstrated that both intrinsic (e.g., personal traits) and extrinsic factors (e.g., high workload, long working hours, poor work-life integration, practice environment) adversely impact physician wellness.

In this one-day workshop, we will address physician wellness by introducing and developing mindfulness skills in participants so that they could tackle these contributing factors more skillfully at personal, interpersonal, and system levels. The emphasis will be placed on experiential exercises and everyday strategies aim to enhance personal and situational awareness in a physician’s busy life. A variety of formats including mindfulness training, didactic sharing, dyad exercises, prose/poem reading, and group discussion will be used to ensure an interactive experience that is invigorating, informative, and practical.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Engage mindfulness skills in participants through the practice of different types of mindfulness training (formal and informal).
• Describe the contributing factors that lead to decreased physician wellness and burnout, and to learn skillful strategies to tackle them.
• Draw on a personal repertoire of mindfulness skills and strategies that can be applied in their daily lives.

Resources/Reference

CPD Credits

The workshop Everyday Mindfulness for Busy Clinicians is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society. You may claim a maximum of 5 hours.

Access Details

Kindly note that there is a maximum attendance of 30 participants, when you register you will be sent a confirmation email with the event details.
To attend this event, please register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApc-mhqT4qGNE3lmF_7TLPCzMUWYQXZr8f

AMMI Canada is hosting a Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) webinar to inform Canadian health care providers about the COVID-19 vaccines to increase their knowledge and confidence in the vaccines.

Topic: The Public Health Agency of Canada presents COVID-19 Vaccine Foundations for Health Care Providers.

Date: Dec 14-15, 2020

Time: 01:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Access Details: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Opening remarks by Dr. Howard Njoo, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer

Module 1 – Health Canada COVID-19 Vaccine Approval and the Role of NACI in COVID-19 Vaccine Planning

Speakers:    

Dr. Megan Bettle, Health Canada and Dr. Caroline Quach, Chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)

Objectives:

• To describe the Health Canada vaccine approval pathway for vaccines, including changes under the interim order and the status of current rolling submissions
• To underscore the guidance delivered and expected from the National Advisory

Module 2 – COVID-19 Vaccines in Canada

Speakers:    

Dr. April Killikelly and Dr. Marina Salvadori, the Public Health Agency of Canada

Objectives:

• To compare the platform technologies used by candidate vaccines against SARS-COV-2/COVID-19.
• To discuss mRNA vaccines in development by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna

Module 3 – COVID-19 Vaccine Administration and Immunization Clinic Planning

Speakers:    

Dr. Bryna Warshawsky, the Public Health Agency of Canada

Objectives:

• To describe the infection prevention and control requirements for safely providing COVID-19 vaccines given the ongoing circulation of SARS-CoV-2T
• To highlight key messages regarding vaccine storage and handling requirements
• To provide planning parameters and strategies for organizing mass immunization clinics

Things to note:

• The presentation will be delivered in English and French on two separate days and recorded.
• The recording will be made available on the AMMI Canada website immediately following the event.

Topic: Origin of Cylinders in Complex Refractive Surgery and Newer Algorithms in Management

Presenter: Vaitheeswaran Lalgudi, MD

Date: Tuesday December 8th, 2020

Time: 5:00pm – 6:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4)

Registration: https://webinar.ringcentral.com/webinar/register/WN_M0Zg1UczSmGRW7VKITW5sw

Ottawa Leads: Kashif Baig, MD and Vaitheeswaran Lalgudi, MD

The Precision Cornea Centre International Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the session, the participants should be able to:

1. Understand the sources of cylinders in complex and normal corneas

2. Understand complex interplay of corneal and ocular aberrations

3. Understand newer algorithms in managing cylinders

Date: Friday December 11, 2020 8:45 AM – 11:45 AM

Topic:  Geometric Optics

Speakers – Dr. Michael Wan

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83202933232?pwd=dERWU3ZITVl2OXFNZEdUbFFsZHVuUT09

Passcode: rYRNE1

Each month, thanks to the seminars dictated on AOP Academy webinars, you can have access to multiple conferences led by our experts in all ophthalmology topics. And this, from the comfort of your house!

Date: December 16th, 2020

Time: 14:30 – 15:30, EDT

Speakers

• BUI QUOC Emmanuel, Ophthalmologist, France
• AMAR Nawal, Oculoplastic surgeon, France
• ASCHER Benjamin, Plastic surgeon, France

Access Details

https://www.aopcongress.com/en/academy/webinar/fr-eye-aesthetics

Each month, thanks to the seminars dictated on AOP Academy webinars, you can have access to multiple conferences led by our experts in all ophthalmology topics. And this, from the comfort of your house!

Date: December 3rd, 2020

Time: 14:30 – 15:30 , EDT

Speakers

• BUI QUOC Emmanuel,Ophthalmologist, France
• COSCAS Florence, Ophthalmologist, France
• BEHAR COHEN Francine, Ophthalmologist, France
• BOUSQUET Elodie, Ophthalmologist,
• CHHABLANI Jay, Ophthalmologist, United States

Access Details

https://www.aopcongress.com/en/academy/webinar/pachychoroid-spectrum

University of Toronto and Wills Eye Hospital formally invites you to the Cornea Surgical Video Night hosted by Professors Allan Slomovic and Sadeer Hannush.

Date: Thursday December 3rd 2020
Time: 7:30 – 9:00pm EDT

Topic: Management of Challenging DMEK cases

Guest Presenters:
Professor Frank Price and Drs Anjulie Gang, Zachary Landis, Larissa Gouvea, Nizar Din, Sara Alshaker, Michael Mimouni

Panelists:
University of Toronto and Wills Eye Hospital Cornea Faculty

Zoom Link:
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dB2n3BXnS_a4-CAexh8upw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Joint International Rounds with Precision Cornea Centre (Ottawa, Canada)

Topic: Iris Defects: Overview and management pearls

Presenter: Wadha AlSaadoun, MD

Date: Tuesday December 1st, 2020

Time: 5:00pm – 6:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4)

Registration: https://webinar.ringcentral.com/webinar/register/WN_B8yxBA1cQTWi67kOPD0tOg

Ottawa Leads: Kashif Baig, MD and Wadha AlSaadoun, MD

The Precision Cornea Centre International Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Learning objectives:

At the end of this presentation participants will be able to:

1. Identify and understand management options for partial and full iris defects.

2. Identify many types of iris implants used in aniridia, and their advantages and disadvantages.

As we face this COVID-19 challenge together, The Prism Eye Institute is utilizing Zoom in order to maintain the meetings. All care providers are welcome to observe our presentations and submit questions through the messaging feature.

Topic: “Case Presentations from Yale: Glaucoma, Anterior Segment, Secondary IOLS and Managing Complex Eyes”

Presenter: Drs Christopher Teng, Ji Liu, Ian Kirchner, Soshian Sarrafpour, and Eileen Chang

Moderator: Dr. Ike Ahmed

Date: Wednesday December 2, 2020

Time: 7:30 PM EDT,

Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_80rVIXYpRSK5AZRrMsi7fw

Accreditation:

Prism Eye Rounds are now a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. For each rounds, you will be able to claim a maximum of 2.0 credits. Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(TM). More information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit.

If interested in presenting a case or topic, or to make suggestions, please contact our WEBINAR TEAM.

Access Details:

Learn more about the Prism Eye Webinar Rounds here.

Pre-webinar materials will be posted 1 day prior to meeting. Please return to download and review prior to the webinar as this will make your learning experience more complete.