MD Scope archive
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2023
November 16
- Your issues, media coverage, AMA in the news
- Vote now: 2023 RF delegate zonal/regional elections
- Are you contemplating retirement or are already fully retired?
- Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Emerging acute or decompensated heart failure?
- Changes to lipid reporting and the LDL-C equation in Alberta
- Want to advise the health minister on health information management?
- Reminder: Community providers take action to receive results without delay
- New: MD Culture Shift November 2023 issue
- MD Financial Management
- Preparing for the family meeting: How to talk to your children about your estate plan
- Community Connections
- Research study: Medical education needs of myalgic encephalomyelitis
- Disability and accessibility in First Nations health centre survey
- Research study: COPD care
- Talent Research Roundtable: Health technology in Alberta
October 26
- Help Alberta get immunized: Alberta's fall vaccine program has launched
- Call for applications: AMA Income Equity Initiative Dispute Resolution Committee
- 2023 Tarrant Scholarship: Congratulations Hailea Purcell and Tina Nash!
- Turning lost minutes into patient care: the Health Care Unburdened Grant program
- Does your President's Letter come from a former president?
- MD Financial Management
- Why it's ok to delegate your financial responsibilities
- Community Connections
- Seeking physicians to discuss pregnancy and reproductive services for women with disabilities
- CanMeds open call for public consultation on physician training and practice
- Research study: Culture and positive regard
October 12
- Local doctors, local issues town hall meetings begin October 16
- Call for nominations: Zonal/Regional RF delegates
- Apply today: AMA Informatics Committee
- Alberta's Pathway Hub now live
- Follow these steps to ensure you get lab, specimen and imaging results
- Alberta Medical Association/TD Insurance Stabilization Fund
- Presidential ghosts in your inbox?
- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- New: MD Culture Shift October 2023 issue
- MD Financial Management
- Practice management team: Assemble!
- Community Connections
- Are you interested in shared care planning with complex patients?
September 28
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- 2023-24 AMA membership: United for the health of the profession
- AMA staff announcements: Service milestones and retirement
- Family physicians needed for Caregiver-Centered Care: Physician Education Advisory
- Apply for leadership opportunities with the CMA
- MD Financial Management
- Meet Dr. Franco Rizzuti, AHS medical health officer and member of the MD Physician Council
- Community Connections
- Call for Abstracts - Pediatric Academic Societies
September 14
- Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Nocturia
- Giving Alberta infants the best start to life possible
- Meet this year's recipients of TD Insurance AMA Scholarships
- New resource guide for physicians for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- Congratulations to AMA Executive Director Mike Gormley on his retirement!
- New: MD Culture Shift Issue #24
- MD Financial Management
- Should I invest in a TFSA or leave excess funds in my corporation?
- Community Connections
- Focus on Caregivers: Active wellness for Calgarians under age 65 with dementia
August 31
- AMA committee openings closing soon: Apply online ASAP!
- AMA reps needed for Alberta Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Programs’ Advisory Committee
- CMA Awards: Nominate in one-step
- MD Financial Management
- Investing as a physician: a primer
- Community Connections
- COVID-19 related Moral Injury in Health Care Workers
August 17
- Notice of elections and changes to AMA Bylaws
- Members needed for several important committees. Apply online today!
- Register for town hall Connect Care conversation with Alberta physicians
- Do you have an up-to-date Privacy Impact Assessment? Time-limited offer.
- Thinking of a +1 residency in 2024-25?
- CMA Awards: Submit a one-step nomination today!
- Curl with colleagues this winter
- MD Financial Management
- Bank of Canada: Another 0.25% hike, target overnight interest rate now 5.0%
- Community Connections
- Level 2 Advanced Caregiver-Centered Care Education – all six domain modules now online
July 27
- Don't miss out! Claim up to $2,200 in CME reimbursement before July 31.
- Members needed for important committees. Apply online today!
- MD Financial Management
- Canadians are living longer. How does that impact my retirement savings?
- Community Connections
- Is Alberta's surgical referral system working for your and your patients?
July 13
- Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Constipation in the elderly
- Important committees: Members needed. Apply online today!
- Are you an Edmonton and area physician? Two special events to celebrate you!
- New MD Culture Shift Issue #23
- MD Financial Management
- A guide to TFSA stock trading rules
- Community Connections
- Is Alberta's surgical referral system working for your and your patients?
June 29
- A step toward anti-racism and anti-discrimination
- Medical students receive a boost from AMA's ADIUM Insurance!
- Lung cancer screening program expanding
- Want to help celebrate medicine's achievements?
- MD Financial Management
- Medicus Pension Plan: Canada's first multi-employer pension plan for physicians has launched
- Community Connections
- Educational needs assessment of Canadian health care professionals on myalgic encephalomyelitis
- National survey of health care professionals' responses on domestic sex trafficking
June 15
- Claim your 2023 Continuing Medical Education allotments by July 31
- Connect Care surveys: Update from AHS and AMA
- AMA Committee on Achievement Awards: Online applications now being accepted
- New MD Culture Shift Issue #22
- MD Financial Management
- How to use income splitting to keep more of your money
- Community Connections
- Educational needs assessment of Canadian health care professionals on myalgic encephalomyelitis
- National survey of health care professionals' responses on domestic sex trafficking
May 25
- Connect Care lab results: please use provider and submitter IDs on all requisitions
- ABCs of Blended Capitation
- Celebrate Rural Health Week from May 29 to June 2
- Interested in assisting the AMA Board with the financial oversight of the association?
- AMA mourns passing of past president, Dr. Christopher Varvis
- MD Financial Management
- Retirement timeline for physicians: How to prepare for a comfortable retirement
May 11
- Recognizing physicians in politics
- Optimizing Prescribing with Seniors: Focus on Parkinson's disease - Part 2
- Say thanks to a colleague using the JPAC Shine On Gratitude Program
- Your AMA Section: Three-question survey
- Apply for available positions on the AMA-AH ARP Working Group
- New MD Culture Shift Issue #21
- MD Financial Management
- Your investment strategy, transformed
- Community Connections
- Are you a female physician in Canada?
April 27
- Dr. Shelley Duggan is AMA's 2023-24 President-Elect
- Join the PFSP as an assessment physician!
- UAlberta Mental Health Monologues: a memorable night for all involved
- Reminder: AMA committee openings: Online applications now being accepted
- Taking tuition down a notch: $110,500 awarded in medical student bursaries!
- MD Financial Management
- Financial literacy podcast: Physians and debt
- Community Connections
- Do you prescribe antibiotics? Want to know more about antimicrobial resistance? Sign up for a CPSA focus group!
April 13
- How to prepare for Connect Care launch 6
- Reminder: Call for nominations: AMA President-Elect 2023-24
- Whom do you honour?
- AMA committee openings: Online applications now being accepted
- New MD Culture Shift Issue #20
- MD Financial Management
- Here's what you need to know about the Silicon Valley Bank situation
- Community Connections
- Research project: The views of internationally educated health care professionals in Canada on vaccinations
March 30
- CII-CPAR: Improving patient care with virtually no changes to daily workflow
- AMA President-Elect 2023-24: Call for nominations
- AMA committee openings: Online applications now being accepted
- Canada's national nature prescription program, PaRX, celebrates one year in Alberta
- Quick tips for privacy breaches
- WCB updates
- Electronic reporting weekend interruption
- Coming soon to myWCB: two-step verification
- MD Financial Management
- Financial planning strategies for incorporated physicians
- Community Connections
- Is Alberta's surgical referral system working for you and your patients?
March 17
- Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Orthostatic hypotension
- Diagnostic imaging reports available online for patients through My Personal Records
- eReferral improvements implemented February 23
- AHS newborn screening program has a new name
- AMA Section of Pediatrics grants: Improving care through research and innovation
- Call for applications: History of medicine scholarship and project grant
- New rate increases for auto insurance paused until December 31
- New MD Culture Shift Issue #19
- MD Financial Management
- Tax changes for 2023
- Community Connections
- Do you want to share your thoughts and co-design tools for cancer diagnosis?
- Navigating children's best interests in child psychiatric inpatient settings during the height of the COVID pandemic
- Free counselling services to families with immigrant and refugee experience, and their children
February 23
- Updated post polypectomy surveillance recommendations released in Alberta
- CPSA
- Continuing Competence and Restricted Activities standards of practice take effect this spring
- Help protect children from medication poisoning
- Apply for the 2023 Tarrant Scholarship
- Replay privacy webinars
- MD Financial Management
- Don't leave the important things to chance. Invest with purpose.
- Community Connections
- Foster parent campaign hopes to recruit medical professionals
- Calgary fitness venue in need of volunteer ringside physicians for boxing shows
- Impact of Virtual Care on Decision Making Capacity Assessments
February 9
- CII/CPAR: Go-Live and Beyond
- Training staff about privacy tips
- Need $7,500 for additional training in a clinical area of recognized need in Alberta?
- New MD Culture Shift: Issue #18
- MD Financial Management
- Hello from your MD Calgary office team!
- MD can help with more than RRSP and TFSA contributions
- Community Connections
- Micropsychosocial effect of accounting: health care context
- Accessibility of CT: Identifying underserved populations in rural Alberta
January 26
- New enrolment period for extended health and dental coverage
- News from ACFP
- Tonight: ACFP webinar on college complaints (and how to avoid them)
- ACFP Family Medicine Summit savings end January 31 at midnight!
- Proclaim 'Privacy Week' in your clinic
- Welcome! Dr. Kimberley Kelly joins AMA Senior Management Team
- Apply for leadership opportunities with the CMA
- Thank you, AMA members!
- Will planning: protecting your assets and your family
- Community Connections
- Pros and cons of new Narcotic Transition Service regulations
- Have You Been Affected by the Recall of PAP Devices?
- Accessibility of CT: Identifying underserved populations in rural Alberta
January 12
- Five reasons to sign up for CII/CPAR
- Optimized Prescribing with Seniors
- The ASaP maneuvers menu has been updated
- Help us rebuild the AMA website
- RF delegate election results
- Congratulations! 12 days of no privacy incidents
- Opioid Process Improvements Training now available!
- AMA seeks 2023 nominations for our highest awards
- Investing as a physician: A primer
- Community Connections (formerly known as Survey Corner)
- Accessibility of CT: Survey to Identify Underserved Populations in Rural Alberta
2022
December 15
- Consultation 025: CPSA now seeking your feedback on three standards
- Enhancements to eReferral coming January 2023
- Apply today! Informatics Advisory Committee.
- News from ACFP
- ACFP Family Medicine Summit - early bird registration savings
- Big Bucks, Better Billing blog
- ACFP's Future of Family Medicine: A strategic vision
- Need your Privacy Impact Assessment updated? Reduced PIA rates for CII/CPAR.
- Supporting injured workers: What information can employers request?
- News from Canadian Medical Association
- Special opportunity for members of CMA Ambassador Program
- CMA leadership opportunities
- Cash is king... or is it?
- Community Connections (formerly known as Survey Corner)
- Impact of Virtual are on Decision-making Capacity Assessments (DMCAs)
- AHS Childhood Immunization Survey
November 24
- Vote now: 2022 RF delegate zonal/regional elections
- ANA testing to transition to Calgary lab
- CMA leadership opportunities
- AMA Senior Management Team news
- Privacy: Looking for risks at your clinic
- Physicians needed to interview applicants for the U of A Doctor of Medicine Program
- Alberta Blue Cross supports the CHANGE Health Community Program
- News from ACFP
- Thursday Evening Webinars
- ACFP Family Physician of the Year
- Survey Corner
- Chiropractic Association of Alberta survey with Alberta doctors
- AHS Childhood Immunization Survey
November 10
- Optimized Prescribing with Seniors: Deprescribing ChEl in LTC residents with progressive dementia
- Does your President's Letter come from a former president?
- User raves about AMA's privacy training
- News from ACFP: Innovation in Addiction Medicine - Dr. Monty Ghosh
- Make a positive impact on Alberta's health care: Join a CPSA committee
- 2022 Tarrant Scholarship: Meet this year's recipients
- TDIMM/AMA Medical Student Bursary: Apply today!
- Financial planning for physicians - why you're different
- Survey Corner: Calgary Zone Survey: Primary Care Sleep Apnea Clinical Pathway
October 27
- Connect Care Launch 5 scheduled for November 6
- HQCA opens call for applications for 2023 Patient Experience Awards
- $1 million in funding will expand targeted services available through PFSP
- Updated breast cancer screening clinical practice guidelines released in Alberta
- ACTT training now available to access through Learn@AMA!
- News from ACFP:
- Let's meet on Thursdays!
- Doc Blog - "Medicine for the Gender Spectrum" by Dr. Charissa Ho
- Making responsible investing the norm
- Survey Corner
- Having patients with advanced/decompensated/non-curative lung, heart, liver and kidney disease or solid organ cancers?
- Awareness and perspectives on the role of artificial intelligence in primary care
October 14
- Help us rebuild the AMA website!
- Exciting new psychiatrist contract opportunity with PFSP
- Call for nominations: Zonal/Regional RF delegates
- Presidential ghosts in your inbox?
- Sign up your privacy officer for AMA's privacy training
- Bank of Canada raises interest rate: job's not done, more to come
- Survey Corner:
- Are you a family physician educated in South Africa?
- Is Alberta's surgical referral system working for you and your patients?
September 29
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- Register for the AMA's Annual General Meeting
- Help reduce the spread of communicable diseases
- Want to curl this winter?
- News from screeningforlife.ca
- Lung cancer screening pilot project launched
- Giving Alberta infants the best possible start to life
- CPSA’s Competence Committee is looking for new members
- Clinical opportunities
- Impact of COVID-19 on colorectal cancer screening in Alberta
- Cognitive Task Analysis Concept Mapping study on navigating cancer diagnosis
- How to build a credit score in Canada: A guide for international medical grads
- MD Culture Shift Issue #17 now available
- AMA staff announcements: Service milestones and retirement
- Survey Corner
- Calgary Zone Survey: Primary Care Sleep Apnea Clinical Pathway
- Medical cannabis perspectives
September 15
- 2022-23 AMA/CMA membership: Keep standing with us
- How to reduce anticholinergic burden to improve safety in older adults
- Get extended health and dental coverage from the AMA: Time to enrol!
- Enhance patient care, even when you can’t be there with CII/CPAR
- News from WCB-AB
- New medical cannabis and pharmaceutical cannabinoid policy
- Virtual opioids information session
- Alberta implementing HPV Test of Cure
- News from ACFP
- CMN Collab Forum: Unraveling and Treating the Epidemic of Pain in Children
- Collaborative ECHO® session on cannabinoids and pain
- What interest rate hikes mean for your mortgage
- Travelling soon? Here's a checklist.
August 25
- Make the most of your down time when you can take it
- Learn@AMA launches more free privacy training for custodians & privacy officers!
- Register today for AMA's media relations and social media training
- U of A research findings support implementation of Alberta FAST program
- ACFP's Chronic Pain Gains: An ECHO series is back for fall!
- Travelling soon? Don’t forget trip cancellation/interruption insurance.
- Survey Corner:
- Is Alberta's surgical referral system working for you & your patients?
- Pediatric Obesity Management in Canada
August 11
- Notice of elections and changes to AMA Bylaws
- Join more than 1,100 learners in taking AMA's online privacy training!
- Apply today: Healthy Working Environments Advisory Committee
- Note: Changes to serum IgE allergy testing for food and environmental inhalants
- News from the Alberta College of Family Physicians:
- Building AAWEARness through Advocacy and Education
- First Five Years of Family Practice blog: Tip on Wellness
- The inside scoop on being a CPSA councillor
- WCB-Alberta's prescribed opioids policy is now open for consultation
- Three strategies for physicians facing reduced cash flow
- Reminders:
- Register! AMA Health Benefits Trust Fund - information webinar
- Family Medicine Enhanced Skills residency programs
- Survey Corner:
- Needs assessment for multi-disciplinary virtual men's health clinic