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The Practice Support Program (PSP) is a quality improvement focused GPSC initiative. Through PSP, doctors have the opportunity to practice more efficiently, focus on providing proactive care, and work towards adopting the attributes of the patient medical home in British Columbia. With doctors’ schedules in mind PSP’s services are customized to meet each practice’s needs. Over time, PSP has experienced an increased demand for flexible, accessible training sessions. In their current form, PSP Learning Modules represent a significant time commitment for a physician. Shorter, more dynamic

The Physiotherapy CPD Initiative supports quality improvement in physiotherapy practice, focusing on the lifelong learning needs of rural and isolated practitioners along with new graduates, distributed physiotherapy clinical faculty and facilitate interprofessional CPD. Our goal is to improve the health and quality of life of British Columbians through innovative CPD and to support quality improvement in physiotherapy practice. If you would like to hear more about our initiative or have any questions, please connect with us: @email

Overview Welcome to the UBC CPD Coaching for Excellence in the Operating Room Program! This program is now closed. It was funded by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. This clinical coaching program for specialist physicians (surgeons and anesthesiologists) supported physicians to participate in peer-to-peer coaching interactions to enhance their practice in the operating room by pairing physician coachees with peer coaches. Coaches and coachees engaged in learner-driven professional development based on coachees’ learning needs. Participants in this program had the

Background Our eLearning site was first launched back in 2014, using the learning management system (LMS) Moodle. Since then our site as grown, and at the time of writing, we have 59 open courses! We found that our eLearning site was starting to experience some growing pains, and our site was no longer able to provide a great user experience to our learners. In 2020, UBC CPD underwent a branding refresh. Our Creative Team was tasked with redesigning our eLearning site, updating the look and feel to match the division’s new creative direction, and improving the user experience. Challenge Due to

The Navigating Thyroid Testing in Primary Hypothyroidism: Practical Approaches for Health Professionals eLearning module is now available to family physicians, nurse practitioners and other health professionals engaged in ordering thyroid tests. Register for the course Background Laboratory testing is the most common medical activity in Canada; an estimated CAD $5.9 billion is spent on laboratory activities annually. 1 Laboratory test overuse occurs when tests are ordered inappropriately, without due consideration of impact on clinical status. An estimated 16–56% of laboratory testing provides

The Health Data Coalition (HDC), Practice Support Program (PSP), and UBC Faculty of Medicine's Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) have partnered with select Divisions of Family Practice throughout British Columbia to host small group learning pilot programs that combine embedded practice measures with education pertaining to topics on adult mental health. The goal of this pilot is to encourage health professionals to incorporate practice data alongside the Adult Mental Health education. The education is divided into two parts: 1) Three online modules available now and 2)

Team-based care Primary Care Networks (PCNs) across British Columbia are working toward sustaining successful team-based care to improve the wellness and workflow of health professionals and primary care teams (family physicians, clinic administrators, pharmacists, registered nurses and more). To help implement team-based care, UBC CPD and the Vancouver Division of Family Practice (VDoFP) have worked together in collaboration with the Practice Support Program and Vancouver Coastal Health to deliver online education for Vancouver health professionals and their teams. This educational program