Wed Nov 9 – In Person

Dr. Rick Glazier - Ian McWhinney Keynote Address

Our Role in Moving the Canadian Health Care System to One of the World’s Best: How family medicine and primary care can transform and bring the whole system with us

Canadian health care providers are among the best trained in the world and most patients get superb care once they get access to the system.  The health care system, built in the 1960s and 70s, needs a total re-design for this century, moving beyond fragmentation, unaccountability, lack of data, failure to evaluate and adapt, hospital-centricity, and misalignment of payment and incentives. To be the best in the world, every Canadian needs a primary care provider and team and those teams need new kinds of organization, community engagement, roles, payment arrangements, accountability, technologies, ways to integrate care across and beyond the system, and supports.  The goal is a future that looks bright to our communities, patients, colleagues, and learners.  Join Rick Glazier in exploring the kinds of transformations needed and the role we can all play in reaching that goal.

Learning objectives:

1. Recognize and understand the fundamental issues facing Canadian primary care and our health system, and their relative neglect until now
2. Critically examine the range of options to work differently, and better, within a transformed primary care system and health system
3. Consider what actions you can take to support our transformation to one of the world’s highest functioning health systems

Dr. Onye Nnorom – TD Spotlight Award Winner

A Choice to Harm or Heal: Racism in primary care

Dr. Nnorom will provide an overview of the societal, mental and physiological impacts of structural racism on patient populations. She will use the Black Canadian population as a case example to illustrate this point. This will be followed by examples of how to embark (or continue) the journey of addressing racism in primary healthcare. She will also speak on why this is a competency we need to develop in order to treat all patients with dignity and provide better care. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how systemic racism impacts the lives of Black Canadians 
2. Explore promising practices for addressing racism in primary care
3. Appreciate how anti-racist practice will make you a better practitioner overall

Dr. Sarah Newbery

Family Physicians Matter: Three lessons for a fifth principle

Dr. Sarah Newbery, now in practice for almost 30 years, holds deep admiration for the work of family physicians all across the health care system. She will share three lessons learned from her career in rural family practice that may help to shape the way forward together as we address the challenges that we face in the current health care system. Using those same lessons, she will invite consideration of a fifth principle for family medicine as a discipline through which we can find meaning and joy.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and recognize the importance of intra-professional care - the way in which we work together as family doctors - within the discipline of family medicine
2. Consider our relationships to one another as family physicians as we move into an uncertain future together
3. Propose a 5th principle of family medicine