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Course: Addiction Care and Treatment Online Course Background: Our goal was to adapt a comprehensive course from the BCCSU on addiction care, covering 20+ modules on topics such as opioid use disorder, cannabis use disorder, harm reduction, and many more. The intended audience: family physicians, specialists, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other healthcare practitioners involved in addiction care and treatment. Problems: With our broad range of online learners, all of whom are receptive to different learning styles, it was important for us to establish a careful balance of

Overview Physician wellness is crucial to help health professionals align with their core values and restore personal and professional fulfillment. Research indicates that key obstacles to physician wellness for practice-eligible international medical graduates (IMGs) in Canada (including family physicians and specialists) include burnout, navigating a new health-care system and finances. To address the complexity of physician wellness, UBC CPD’s British Columbia Physician Integration Program (BC-PIP), funded by the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues (JSC), and the Joint Collaborative

Overview UBC CPD recognizes the responsibility to support reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, advance anti-racism and improve the experiences of Indigenous peoples when interacting with the health-care system. To address the need for access to education, resources and practice tools for physicians in BC communities, UBC CPD has established a relationship with the Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism (ISAR) and Cultural Safety Team at Doctors of BC to deliver education to health professionals through a series of webinars. These webinars will provide health professionals with

Overview With the rise of child and youth substance use in British Columbia (BC), health professionals must have access to up-to-date training, resources and emerging evidence to assess and manage their patients. Feedback from health professionals indicates a lack of confidence in identifying and managing child and youth substance use. To address the need to provide timely care to a vulnerable population of youth aged ten to 25, UBC CPD has partnered with the Shared Care Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use (CYMHSU) Community of Practice Working Group, to create a pathway for

Overview As Primary Care Networks (PCNs) across British Columbia (BC) work toward fostering interprofessional team-based care, UBC CPD aims to support the Team-Based Primary Care Learning Centres (TPCLC) project by delivering tailored learning resources to members of team-based primary care clinics, including physicians, nurse practitioners and allied health providers. Team-Based Primary Care Learning Centres (TPCLC) Project The Team-Based Primary Care Learning Centres (TPCLC) project is a three-year initiative supported by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and managed by the UBC Department of

Overview UBC CPD is proud to collaborate with BC Cancer to provide innovative education offerings and resources for health professionals to better support cancer care. In 2024, the BC Cancer Lung Screening Program identified a need to better support health professionals’ understanding of lung screening eligibility criteria and assessment process. To address the need to better support primary care providers’ understanding of contributing factors for lung screening eligibility, UBC CPD will design and deliver a webinar and online repository with resources on lung screening criteria and

Advancing abortion care through tools for health professionals In partnership with The Contraception & Abortion Research Team (CART) and funded by Health Canada, UBC CPD continues its partnership for ongoing development of education for health professionals across Canada who can provide abortion care. Providing optimal care to underserved populations The three-part project addresses intersectionality and the compounding of historic, systemic and sustained barriers to seeking care/optimal care for underserved populations. Through the discovery, creation and delivery of professional development

Overview Nurse Practitioners (NPs) play a critical role in providing optimal care across British Columbia (BC). To help NPs succeed in primary care settings and meet evolving patient needs, the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of British Columbia (NNPBC) and UBC Continuing Professional Development (CPD) have partnered to launch a brand-new Nurse Practitioner (NP) CPD Program. This program will deliver high-quality, evidence-based education to enable NPs to engage with lifelong learning opportunities, improve collaborative practice and address current and future system and practice. CPD for today