Partners
Frames of Mind: A Monthly Mental Health Film Series
3rd Wednesday of each month | 7 p.m. | Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St | In person
Audience: Open to health professionals and those interested in the representation of mental health in cinema.
Overview: The Frames of Mind mental health film series and annual film festival is an initiative of the UBC Department of Psychiatry whose goal is to use thought-provoking cinema in order to promote community and professional education of issues pertaining to mental health and illness. The series consists of monthly evening screenings of a feature film or documentary directly related to a particular mental health theme, which is then followed by a relevant presentation and moderated discussion.
Up to 2.0 MOC Section 2 Personal Learning Project credits
More information & tickets: https://www.framesofmind.ca/
UBC Certificate Course in Laboratory Quality Management
January-June | Online
Audience: Physicians, residents, laboratory technologists, lab managers, administrators and other laboratory professionals
Overview: The Laboratory Quality Management course is a completely on-line 20-week course designed to provide knowledge, discussion and expertise for those interested in quality management for clinical and research laboratories. The course is highly valuable for those who are or intend to be laboratory quality managers and for those that work with quality management issues.
Up to 120 MOC Section 3 credits
Register: https://polqm.med.ubc.ca/registration/
BC Cancer Lung Screening Forum
Feb 1 | 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | BC Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, BC
Audience: Program radiologists and diagnosticians, medical physicists, health authority operations leads, others interested in lung screening
Overview: BC Cancer Lung Screening is pleased to host the inaugural Lung Screening Forum. We will gather together with program radiologists and diagnosticians, medical physicists, health authority operations leads, and others interested in lung screening to share program updates, learn from expert speakers, and discuss challenging cases.
Register: https://ubccpd.eventsair.com/bcclsf25/reg/Site/Register
Rural Locums Forum
https://rccbc.ca/event/rural-locums-forum/
Feb 8 | 8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | Vancouver Island Conference Centre, Nanaimo, BC
Audience: Rural locums from across British Columbia
Overview: The Rural Locum Forum is back for 2025! Join us on February 8th for an opportunity to connect in-person with rural locums from across British Columbia. With an agenda designed for both new and seasoned locums, this half-day CME will include educational presentations, and engagement sessions, plus space to socialize and exchange experiences of rural practice with other locums. Topics will include a guide to locuming in BC and tips and tricks for thriving in the rural ER.
Register: https://ubccpd.eventsair.com/rlf2025/reg/Site/Register
MSK Whistler Course 2025
https://www.ubcradcme.com/msk/
Feb 22-25 | Fairmont Chateau Whistler | Whistler, BC | In-Person Conference
Audience: General radiologists involved in protocolling, imaging and assessment of Musculoskeletal injuries and disease Overview: The Program is a 4-day conference to serve to review and update current information on clinical MR and ultrasound imaging evaluation of musculoskeletal disorders with an emphasis on bone, muscle and soft-tissues. The role of imaging in the evaluation of specific patterns of sports-related musculoskeletal injury will be reviewed. Clinical-Radiologic Correlation of MSK abnormalities will be discussed.
Register: https://ubccpd.eventsair.com/msk2025/reg/Site/Register
Whistler Cataract and Retina Update: Innovations and Insights
https://ubccpd.eventsair.com/wcru2025/reg/Site/Register
Feb 28 | Nita Lake Lodge | Whistler, BC | In-Person Course
Audience: Ophthalmologists, ophthalmology residents and students
Register: https://ubccpd.eventsair.com/wcru2025/reg/Site/Register
CHSPR 2025 Health Policy Conference: Primary Care at A(nother) Crossroads
https://chspr.ubc.ca/conference
Mar 3-4 | Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, Vancouver and Online | Hybrid Conference
Overview: The 37th annual CHSPR health policy conference will confront the primary care crisis. With primary care stretched beyond its limits, it is necessary for provincially delivered and funded systems to learn from each other and more quickly apply evidence to practice. Speakers will engage with approaches that are being implemented to support patients in navigating primary care, address workforce shortages, decrease inefficiencies, and use data to transform care.
Audience: policy-makers, academics, providers, trainees, patients and national organizations on timely issues shaping health systems in Canada
Register: https://ubccpd.eventsair.com/chspr25/reg/Site/Register
CSMM Diploma in Mountain Medicine (Winter & Summer Modules)
April 17-24 and Summer (TBD) | All day | Winter-Whistler, BC. Summer - Canmore, AB
Audience: Nurse Practitioners, Residents, Physicians, Advanced Care Paramedics, Physician Assistants
Overview: A DIMM graduate is trained to care for injuries and illness in austere environments and to provide advice and direction to mitigate or pre-empt medical problems in people travelling to similar environments. Both the Winter and Summer CSMM modules incorporate didactic sessions and field components with practical sessions and realistic simulations exercises. Graduates receives an internationally recognized Diploma in Mountain Medicine from ICAR/UIAA and CME credits.
54 (Summer) + 58 (Winter) = 112 MOC Section 3 & Mainpro+
Register: https://www.thecsmm.org/registration/
Overview of Syphilis for Healthcare Providers in BC Course
Audience: Clinicians who may be involved with the case management and follow-up of syphilis cases and their contacts
Overview: The Overview of Syphilis for Healthcare Providers in BC online course provides clinicians with the key foundational knowledge needed to support them with:
- clinical recognition;
- screening and appropriate testing;
- treatment and follow-up of syphilis cases in BC.
Up to 2.0 Mainpro+/MOC Section 3 credits
Register: https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/31222/phsa-bccdc-overview-of-syphilis-for-healthcare-providers-in-b
Implicit bias: Building a common understanding LearningHub module
Audience: Physicians and all health-care providers
Overview: This learning module aims to aims to help you define what implicit biases are and explore how they can show up in practice. It allows space to consider what some of our own implicit biases may be, and provides tools to start addressing them.
Up to 2.5 Mainpro+ credits
Register: https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/29438/implicit-bias-building-a-common-understanding
SafeCare eLearning modules
Audience: Physicians
Overview: SafeCare is blended, facilitated psychoeducation for health professionals and human service workers in community and acute settings. This education includes trauma and violence informed practice, substance use, harm reduction, Indigenous Cultural Safety, and self-care components. This curriculum is a combination of self-paced online modules and a facilitated session.
Up to 8.0 Mainpro+ credits
Register: http://www.bcwomens.ca/health-professionals/professional-resources/safecare
Portrait Online
Audience: Nurse practitioners and Family/General Practice physicians
Overview: Portrait Online is a practice resource tool for optimizing clinician prescribing patterns. We select 2 topics per year that are relevant to most BC clinicians, show an opportunity to improve prescribing across the province, and will lead to better patient outcomes and/or better use of resources. Portraits provide evidence-based practice suggestions along with a snapshot of your recent prescribing and a comparison with other BC physicians.
Portrait can help you tune up prescribing by providing positive feedback where your prescribing is optimal and helping identify areas where your prescribing could be improved
Up to 5.0 Mainpro+/MOC Self Learning Credits per Portrait viewed
Register: https://www.ti.ubc.ca/portrait/
Medical Abortion Training For Primary Care Providers (Hosted by the National Abortion Federation)
Audience: Primary care physicians
Overview: This medication abortion training is an opportunity for primary care professionals to learn about mifepristone/misoprostol abortion care and integrating it into primary care settings. The workshop is open to people from clinical, administrative, nursing, or counselling backgrounds and consists of six asynchronous modules with one live session.
Register: https://web.cvent.com/event/1048f179-8e60-4bbb-9881-1e7b211fffd3/summary
Online CATT (Concussion Awareness Training Tool)
Audience: pediatricians, emergency medicine physicians, neurosurgeons, sports medicine physicians, and other healthcare practitioners who are involved in the initial assessment and care of concussion patients.
Up to 2.0 MOC Section 3 credits
Register: https://cattonline.com/course/concussion-awareness-training-tool-for-medical-professionals
BC Mental Health Act Education Module – Pediatric Module
https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Learner/Home
Ongoing | Online
Audience: Physicians, directors and clinical staff who admit and provide care to children and youth admitted under the BC Mental Health Act
Up to 3.0 MOC Section 3 credits
Register: https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/22649/bc-mental-health-act-education-pediatric-focus
Electronic Health Record Education - Island Health
https://ihealth.islandhealth.ca/ihealth-for-staff/for-medical-staff/ihealth-training-medical-staff/
Audience: all primary care providers
Up to 6.0 Mainpro+/MOC credits