Waterton AB

Southern Alberta Preceptor Summit

September 23 - 24, 2022

SAPS 2022 is a wrap!

Thank you to our attendees for joining Distributed Learning and Rural Initiatives at Waterton Lakes Lodge Resort for the Southern Alberta Preceptor Summit 2022 where we discussed the latest topics and trends in rural medical education.

 

This conference used interactive, small group workshops to share the latest knowledge and best practices in rural medical education.

At the end of this conference, participants were equipped to:

  1. Identify gaps in teaching skills for preceptors in rural sites through Southern and Central Alberta.
  2. Create local expertise in teaching to allow future, faculty-run professional development.
  3. Develop links between disciplines and teaching sites.
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Program Credits

RCPSC
MOC Section 1 Group Learning and AMA-PRA Category 1

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by the University of Calgary Office of Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development. You may claim a maximum of 7.5 hours (credits are automatically calculated).
 

Claiming your credits: Visit MAINPORT https://mainport.royalcollege.ca  

Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme.

 

CFPC (ID-197890)
Alberta Chapter Mainpro+® Group Learning 

This one-credit-per-hour Self-Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Alberta Chapter for up to 7.5 Mainpro+® credits.

To claim your CFPC credits, visit https://certplus.cfpc.ca/login.aspx to record your learning and outcomes.


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Session Objectives

Discover some of the key takeaways from each of our sessions.

Opening Plenary

9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Hosted by Dr. Eugene Landsbergen. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to:

  1. Describe the transformation from protocol and organized learning to intention based education.
  2. Describe Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas and Rubedo and apply these alchemic process phases to learning.
  3. Explore medical education and its application in current times.

11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Hosted by Dr. Kristy Penner & Dr. Martina Kelly. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to:

  1. Describe the role of family medicine expertise in the management of multimorbidity.
  2. Demonstrate a structured approach to multimorbidity using the Chunk, Cluster, Coordinate Framework. 
  3. Apply the framework to your practice in conjunction with provided teaching resources.

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Hosted by Dr. Peter Koegler. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to:

  1. Describe the history of the University of Calgary's Rural Family Medicine Residency Program in Southern Alberta.
  2. Identify elements of the current program as well as key individuals involved. 
  3. Investigate the future of the Rural Family Medicine Residency Program and identify strategies to help it grow.

3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Hosted by Dr. Jacqueline Hui and Kenna Kelly-Turner. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to:

  1. Describe Project Echo and its uses in rural zones.
  2. Evaluate current infrastructure of rural faculty development in medical education.
  3. Implement Project Echo as a possible forum for peer-to-peer teaching for rural faculty.

Closing Plenary

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Hosted by Dr. Josh Foley. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to:

  1. Demonstrate the importance of taking care of yourself as well as your clinic.
  2. Recognize the importance of maintaining stability in medical practice throughout changing work environments.
  3. Identify messages of insight for medical learners, outside the realm of practice, to make them better physicians.

About Our Speakers

Meet our speakers for SAPS 2022! We've gathered an amazing group of experts to help you and your learners be successful.

Dr. Eugene Landsbergen was born and educated in the Netherlands, but practices in Alberta, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories since 1998, and active in medical education since 1988. Eugene's studies and practices also took him too, Asia (Israel, Shanghai, China) and Africa (rural and hospital based medicine and surgery in Namibia and Sudan).

He is academically affiliated with UBC, UoA and UoC, and having enjoyed being the main preceptor for the UCLIC program for a few years, started out with teaching students in the Netherlands in the Skillslab program, early in his career.

Eugene's special interests in the development of rural medicine and implemented rural programs for emergency directed ultrasound. He also implemented rural emergency directed use of ventilator for invasive, or non-invasive ventilation.

 

Dr. Kristy Penner is a rural generalist from Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, with interests in medical education and medical leadership. Dr. Penner uses her well deserved time off to explore her big back yard by foot, bike or skis.

Dr. Martina Kelly is a family doctor, and Undergraduate Director for the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary. She loves teaching and seeing students develop over time, especially when they return as colleagues. Apart from work, she loves spending time by the sea and testing out recipes on her long suffering family.

Dr. Peter Koegler graduated from the University of Alberta Medical School in 1995 followed by completing residency in Family Medicine at the Grey Nunns in Edmonton. He started a full service family practice in Lethbridge in 1997, including obstetrics for 20 years. He is also a member of the Adult FASD Assessment Clinic in Lethbridge.

Dr. Koegler has been affiliated with the University of Calgary Rural Family Medicine Residency Program (formally known as Rural Alberta South - RAS) since 20011. He has been a preceptor, a Site/Unit Director, past Rural Program Director and is currently the Medicine Hat Site Director. His wife Joanne, whom hes been married too for 37 years, have 6 children, 9 grandchildren and a dog.

Dr. Josh Foley graduated from Memorial University a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. He emigrated to Alberta in 2004 and worked as a GPO. Dr. Foley was also was one of two physicians to set up the palliative care program in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Slowing down now, he has given up GPO work but is still doing some palliative care while working diligently to perfect losing golf balls in the woods.
 

Jacqueline Hui is a consulting Palliative Care physician and works with the AHS Palliative and End-of-Life Care team. She works both in acute care and the rural Calgary zone. Prior to working in Alberta, she worked as a Palliative Care Consultant in Ontario and taught at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. With a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Institute and a combined interest in global health and Palliative Care, Jacqueline was previously involved in developing Palliative Care HIV/AIDs initiatives in Kenya and South Africa and is currently involved with a local Global Oncology Physicians group and Two World Cancer Project in Nepal. Dr. Hui also holds a Master of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University and is a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Departments of Oncology and Family Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She geeks out on medical education and was previously a Palliative Care Program Director for both Royal College and Family Medicine residents. She is currently Assessment Director for the University of Calgary Postgraduate Family Medicine Residency Program.

Kenna manages the faculty development and performance portfolio for the Cumming School
of Medicine. Her particular areas of interest include faculty development for social justice,
quality improvement, and academic processes. Kenna is currently pursuing a doctorate in adult
learning focused on evaluating effectiveness of faculty development in relation to cultural
change.