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

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