Newsletter

Dr. Najma Ahmed, Interim Surgeon-in-Chief is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Blake Murphy as the Interim Division Head of Plastic Surgery beginning January 9, 2020.

The Division of Gastroenterology is focused on providing trainees with meaningful experiences in patient care and an optimal environment in which to develop research skills and techniques. One way we are achieving this is through an extended clinical research residency program that includes an additional third year of focused training. The program will help us attract top gastroenterology researchers and better prepare our graduates to enter and flourish in a competitive research environment. These funds will be used to provide salary support for the currently unfunded third year for our inaugural Research Track GI Resident (who will be the Dr. E Jan Irvine Research Resident).

Help out your colleagues by letting them know who you refer patients to for more general assessments by a community subspecialist. We have started an online resource and have already listed out community specialists for Dermatology and Neurology.

The Department of Medicine has been an important lead funder to various campaigns at St. Michael’s including the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and Inspire 2018 Campaigns.  Recently, the focus for St. Michael’s Foundation has shifted from major capital campaigns to mini-campaigns, which will support a number of priority projects and initiatives identified within the Hospital.  In 2017, the Department of Medicine established the Department of Medicine Priorities Fund through which disbursements will be made to support priorities of the Department.

As discussed at MAC, our new electronic medication reconciliation platform – eMedRec - launches in all inpatient units on July 30th. Designed in partnership with patients and tailor-built for St. Michael’s, it will optimize our ability to track the medications that patients are on at all vulnerable points of their care, enhancing patient safety. This tool is not only an important piece of meeting our accreditation requirements, but is also a key tool to improving the quality of our transitions of care.

Call for the 2019-2020 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Research and Development Grant (link - due Oct 30) and call for applications by the University of Toronto’s Instructional Technology Innovation Fund (link - due Nov. 8)