Newsletter

Please see below for the following updates:

• 2022/2023 Annual Activity Reports – Due on September 30
• New Staff Profile: The Department of Medicine is delighted to welcome Dr. Lauren King, Division of Rheumatology, to the active staff!
• LMS Project - UAT – Physician
• Postings: early career faculty lead postings / call for committee membership recruitment
• OHT/DET-Family Physician Network Event
• Guidelines for using generative AI tools like ChatGPT at Unity Health
• Update – EPAs in the MD Program and Impact on PG Learners

 The Department of Medicine is delighted to welcome Dr. Lauren King, Division of Rheumatology, to the active staff! 

Hi Everyone

As we head towards the fall, I wanted to thank all of you for your incredible work this summer to launch another academic year!  I know that there was a lot happening at the hospital, the university, and elsewhere over this summer, which meant that the pace did not slow down for many of you.

Huge thanks for coming together to support the admission surge we are seeing. The GIM CTUs have been experiencing much higher inpatient volumes than is typical for August and your assistance to help offload them has been fantastic and much appreciated. For example, the incredible collegiality in relaxing admission criteria to GI, respirology and neurology facilitated patient care and learner experience.  One of the residents remarked to me today that they were so amazed and grateful to see this happen, as they hadn’t had a similar experiences elsewhere.

Thanks for role modeling this and for your continued commitment to collegiality!

Sharon

Please see below for the following updates:

1. N95 Respirator fit testing at St. Michael’s
2. Angels Den 2023 – 2 Free Tickets Remain

Please see below for the following updates:

• Recipients for Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching
• Call for Proposals:  2023-24 SMHA AFP Innovation Funds - Aug 21/23 submission internal review deadline
• Reminder: Do not use the St. Michael’s Emergency Department to enter the hospital
• MRI staffing update
• Interim executive program coverage
• Vera Dounaevskaia is the Inaugural Program Medical Director for Medicine at Unity Health
• Medical Humanities Education Matching Funding Grant - Call for Proposals Fall 2023
• Update – Research Consolidating to LKSKI and 193 Yonge St.

Please see below for the following updates:

• Hand Hygiene education updates
• Call for Proposals:  2023-24 SMHA AFP Innovation Funds - Aug 21/23 submission internal review deadline
• Available Chair Opportunity - Endowed Chair in Homelessness, Housing and Health
• Changes in CPOE ordering of plasma on Soarian
• IM PD Posting

• Call for Proposals:  2023-24 SMHA AFP Innovation Funds - Aug 21/23 submission internal review deadline
• Reminder: 2022/2023 Annual Activity Reports
• Minimizing delays in pathology results for urgent cases
• Article: A New Approach to M.S. Could Transform Treatment of Other Diseases
• New self-serve IT portal now live: Quickly and easily submit and track IT tickets
• Report suspicious calls to Privacy and Risk

Please see below for the following updates:

• Reminder: 2022/2023 Annual Activity Reports
• Call for Proposals:  2023-24 SMHA AFP Innovation Funds - Aug 21/23 submission internal review deadline
• IM Accreditation Response
• Unity Health launching new self-serve IT portal on July 17

Announcements – June 2023

• Congratulations to…
• Special Congratulations to our Retirees!
• Endocrinology Divisional Leadership Change
• Chief Medical Resident Changeover
• Postings

• Congratulations to…
• Special Congratulations to our Retirees!
• Chief Medical Resident Changeover
• Lyne Noel de Tilly's Retirement
• Masking changes at Unity Health effective June 27, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Laura Walker from the Division of General Internal Medicine will become the Site Director, Core Internal Medicine program, as of July 1, 2023, replacing Dr. Eric Tseng who has completed his 3 year term.  Laura is a clinician teacher, has completed the Master Teacher program, and was the Chief Medical Resident at SMH in 2016/2017.  She has been the Deputy Site Education Program Director over the last 3 years. Please join me in congratulating Laura and thank you in advance for your support of her in this new role. Thanks also to the Search Committee who completed the interview process.

I also wish to thank Eric Tseng for his excellent leadership in this role over the last 3 years during the very difficult times of a global pandemic, staffing changes, and a Royal College accreditation decision of intent to withdraw.  Eric will become the Program Director for the Hematology residency training program as of July 1, 2023.

Congratulations to both!

Sharon

• Encouraging blood donation and restrictive blood use
• Call for applications - Deputy Site Director, IM
• St Michael’s physicians who use phone dictation: Review these tips for using eScription One
• Atropine 1% ophthalmic solution bottle dropper 5 mL is on backorder
• Outpatient Post-COVID Condition Rehabilitation Program closing August 31
• Announcement from Thomas Parker, Executive Vice-President, Clinical Programs & Chief Medical Officer
• Medical Education Strategic Plan 2023-2025 and 2022-2023 Annual Report