Disruptions related to COVID-19 are likely to continue for quite some time. In response, programs are adopting innovative approaches to support resident learning in the clinical environment. Check out these ideas from your colleagues across Canada on how they are continuing clinical teaching during COVID-19, across a variety of clinical environments (inpatients or outpatient visits), for multiple educational purposes (e.g., direct observation, teaching, coaching and assessment), and for both formal and informal teaching (e.g., academic half days, journal clubs, clinical teaching, etc.).

Ideas for Clinical Teaching During COVID-19: The purpose of this document is to share tips and resources from the front line for continuing residency education while managing the pandemic and maintaining physical distancing.

Virtual teaching resources

In light of the clinical responses to COVID-19, many educators are making significant adjustments to clinical experiences and training opportunities for their residents. These changes include reductions in OR activity and in ambulatory clinic experiences as well as the cancellation of group learning activities like rounds, simulation sessions and other academic activities.
Given that disruptions related to COVID-19 are likely to continue for many months, programs are innovating and adapting in order to support ongoing resident learning.
Teaching virtually – given physical distancing constraints and concerns about resident safety, many programs have implemented, or may implement, virtual alternatives to traditional teaching approaches. This short document is designed to help programs teach residents in a virtual / remote manner.

This webpage from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada is temporary.

These 60-minute interactive, online workshops introduce the core components of Mindfulness Practice, an internationally recognized program to help physicians incorporate mindfulness into their clinical work. Instructors are graduates of the University of Rochester Medical Center Mindful Practice longitudinal internship program.

Webinar Details

Topic: Mindfulness workshops

Tuesday, June 2 – 8:00 pm (EDT)
Instructor: Dr. Anita Chakravarti
Language: English

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoceiprTIrGtH_nX0tpUtEyv_WUDHRhf_D

Monday, June 8 – 8:00 pm (EDT)
Instructor: Dr Jillian Horton
Language: English

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tduCppz8tGdzUDa9T-3yCfGqQPe_jHm9k

Community Q&A: Things to Consider as You Prepare to Reopen Your Practice, by Sanjay D Goel, MD, Ann M Hulett, CMPE, Albert Castillo

View the full webinar recording here

In this MedEdTalks Micro-CE podcast, Rishi P. Singh, MD, and Dilsher S. Dhoot, MD, discuss current barriers to care of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and other management considerations for providers.

Listen here.

Harvard Medical School -Clinical Management Through COVID-19 Webinar Series

It is hard to believe it has been over a month since the WHO declared the COVID-19 pandemic and I can imagine we are all slowly starting to adjust to the new “normal.”  At times I feel completely bombarded by all of the information available about the pandemic – it really is coming at us from all fronts. Overflowing email inboxes, the news, social media, medical literature…the list just goes on! The rate of new information about COVID-19 seems to be exponential and it’s a challenge to keep up. I had been searching for a few “go-to” resources that would give high yield, digestible, up-to-date summaries on key COVID-19 topics. I wanted to share this month with you a great online, webinar series I have been really enjoying for the past few weeks. Harvard PGME has put together a special continuing education webinar series that is given by various Harvard affiliated faculty. Each week they cover two different COVID-19 related topics on two separate days. Each webinar is an hour in duration and if you cannot watch it live, it is recorded and may be viewed at a later date. It was very simple to register for the webinar and then log on to view it. If you want to watch one to get a feel for the style, I highly recommend watching the one titled “Immunological testing during COVID-19.”  It helped answer a lot of questions I had around immunity, testing, vaccines and also the big question “when and how is this going to end?”  While not an ophthalmology specific resource, I have found them to very useful and a great complement to the COS “A Path to New Vision” webinars.

Check it out here: https://postgraduateeducation.hms.harvard.edu/continuing-education/covid-19-resources-providers

Accredited for 1 AMA PRA category 1 credit; Unaccredited by Royal College of Canada

Recommended by Dr. Anu Mishra, MD, MS-HPEd

Practice Resource Centre Committee Member, Canadian Ophthalmological Society

Personal Protective Equipment Simulations (Online Modules)

First, do no harm. How do you keep yourselves, your patients, and your families safe when using Personal Protective Equipment while caring for patients in isolation? Personal Protective Equipment Simulations aims to prepare healthcare providers to care for patients who require droplet and contact isolation on medical admission units in the Calgary Zone, assuring adherence to existing infection prevention and control (IPC) protocols and avoid exposure to suspected pathogens. This course was co-developed with Calgary Medicine Emergency-Pandemic Operations Command (MEOC).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the online modules, learners will be able to:

• Recognize and evaluate the indications for PPE use
• List indications for N95 mask use
• Identify the latent threat of PPE fatigue
• Recognize the importance of using a buddy system

REGISTRATION

Online modules are available for anyone to self-register. FREE Self-registration The online self-learning modules are available on here.

ACCREDITATION

1.0 MOC Section 3 Self-Assessment / Mainpro+ Self-learning one-credit-per-hour

CONTACT: [email protected]

May 5, 2020

Guidance During COVID-19: Disinfection Recommendations from the Manufacturers – Haag-Streit and Zeiss

Access Details

• COVID-19 guidance: Cleaning your HFA Perimeter
• Considerations on How to Clean Perimeters to Lower the Risk of COVID 19 Transmissions
• Cleaning Guidance for the Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA)

The April 2020 issue of the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology (CJO) is now available online. Here are just some of the highlights in this issue:

Resident Perspectives + visual abstract: In this issue, our residents have summarized 5 articles that they feel are relevant to learners here in Canada and around the globe, including the article featured in our April visual abstract, Effect of 6-week washout period on intraocular pressure following chronic prostaglandin analogue treatment: a randomized controlled trial.

F.Y. Eye column: As always, we’re pleased to feature Dr. Ian McIlraith’s column, which summarizes recent research and news stories that might be of interest to ophthalmologists. This month, he looks at publications on neuromyelitis optica disease progression, optic nerve ultrasonography for diagnosing increased intracranial pressure, and idiopathic intracranial hypertension as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

An excellent line-up of review articles, original research and more, including:

• Dry eye after refractive surgery: a meta-analysis
• Vision to improve: quality improvement in ophthalmology
• The effect of pharmacological pupillary dilation on intraocular pressure measurement
• Pentosan-associated maculopathy: prevalence, screening guidelines, and spectrum of findings based on prospective multimodal analysis
• Ophthalmology referral as part of a multidisciplinary approach to suspected abusive head trauma
• Recovery of stereopsis after strabismus surgery in X-linked ocular albinism 
• Inner-limiting-membrane peeling in epiretinal membrane surgery: an evolving surgical trend

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