The overwhelming issue on most of our minds over the last month has been Bill 2. An extraordinary number of you took part in our recent , please know that I have read each of your remarks and will do so as responses continue to come in. Thank you for sharing so openly and for your honesty. Your voices matter and the responses you submitted will guide me in meetings with various stakeholders. .
Consequently, following some important conversations, Lesley Fellows, Vice-President (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has also recently shared the following:
- a letter to听clinical faculty affiliated with 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 School of Medicine. Read it here.听
- an Op-Ed in Le Droit titled "Sant茅 en Outaouais: le canari dans la mine qu鈥檕n ne peut plus ignorer". .
From November 5-8, several members of the Department attended the Family Medicine Forum in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Some members of the Postgraduate team presented a workshop on the MASTR (9I制作厂免费 Administrative Sharing and Teaching Resource), a knowledge-sharing tool designed to streamline processes for our administrative teams; and Catherine Jarvis, our director of faculty development, presented a workshop on peer coaching.
The Department held several interesting events in November, a selection of which include:
1. Research Seminar: Making Our Voices Matter in Global Health Solution Building (Nov 17). Many thanks to Shashika Bandara (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Global and Public Health, School of Population and Global Health) for taking the time to share your passion and experience in gathering and elevating critical voices and inequities!
2. EDI Workshop: Understanding Microagressions through Real-Case Studies (Nov 20). Thank you to Lynda Bulimo and Shannon Wood, both Equity Education Advisors with 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Equity Team, who explored the topic of microaggressions and how we can better equip ourselves to prevent and to respond to these situations. Many thanks also to the Graduate Studies EDI committee for organizing this event!
3. Palliative Care 9I制作厂免费 Continuing Professional Development Day (Nov 21). Held at New Residence Hall with presentations on a variety of topics including communication, pharmacology, and ethics, with a record turnout! Congratulations to Palliative Care 9I制作厂免费 on this event!
December promises to be a busy month also.
- It is not too late to register for the 9I制作厂免费 Annual Refresher Course in Family Medicine, to be held virtually from December 1-3 ().
- You are all invited to our Frost and Fire Holiday Celebration starting at 5.30pm on December 4 at the department (Info).
- The Faculty Development team is organizing a practical workshop entitled 鈥�Better Prompts with Copilot鈥�, coming up on December 11th (Info). (This is a follow-up workshop to the session held on November 25 for novice users to experiment using Copilot.)
In closing, I offer kudos to Professor Alayne Adams, our Global Health Director, who has received the 2025 Social Prescribing Research Award by the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing (CISP). Read more here. This national recognition is an excellent reminder of the outstanding scholarship in our department, of the variety of ways in which we improve the lives of our patients, and of the social fabric of our country that we are working very hard to maintain!
Very warmly as always,
Marion
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