The Family Practice Research Development Rounds encourage departmental researchers and residents to present their work-in-progress, receive colleague feedback, exchange ideas, and form collaborations. They are open to anyone interested in family practice and primary care research.
Research Rounds are held the second Wednesday of each month from 8:00 to 9:00 am, 3rd Floor of the David Strangway Building, or by video-audio conferencing.
The 2018 – 2019 Research Development Rounds Schedule
September 12, 2018, Speaker: Helene Bertrand, “A new way to diagnose and treat low back pain: a chart review of 180 cases” View Poster Here
October 10, 2018, Speakers: Stefan Grzybowski, Nisrine El Amire, Urvee Karve,”Building Better Care in Rural British Columbia” View Poster Here
October 24, 2018, Speaker: Robert Petrella, Visiting Scholar, “Creating Innovative Partnerships to Deliver Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention at the Points of Care” View Poster Here
November 14, 2018, Speakers: David Snadden, Martha MacLeod, Erin Wilson, “Facilitating Team-based Primary Care Reform in Northern BC: A Partnering Approach” View Poster Here
December 5, 2018, Speakers: Hamideh Bayrampour and Julia Santana Parrilla, “Improving Perinatal Mental Health: Facilitators and Challenges” View Poster Here
January 9, 2019, Speakers: Farah Shroff and David Jung, “Do Social Movements Promote Health Better than Public Health Institutions?” and “Noise Induced Hearing Loss and Public Health” View Poster Here
February 13, 2019, Speakers: Rahul Gupta, Bob Woollard, Karen Gelb, “From Disease to Ease: Exploring Health Coaching & Mindfulness as Levers for Building Capacity in Healthcare” Stakeholder Perspectives on Sunshine Coast Initiatives. View Poster Here
March 13, 2019, Speaker: Ted Rosenberg, “Measuring Frailty and Predictors of Mortality, Nursing Home Transfer and Hospitalization – Results from the Frailty and Aging Cohort Study” (FACTS) View Poster Here
April 10, 2019, Speaker: Francois Louw. “Treatment of temporomandibular dysfunction with hyertonic dextrose injection(prolotherapy): A randomized clinical trial with long-term partial crossover.” View Poster Here
May 8, 2019, Speaker: Jani Laramee, “Psychological distress and suicidal ideation among Canadian family practice residents: Review of the literature and upcoming research projects.” View Poster Here
June 12, 2019, Speaker: Alana Hirsh, “Addressing trauma in substance use disorder: developing a trauma treatment toolkit for primary care providers.” View Poster Here
ACCREDITATION statement: The University of British Columbia Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide study credits for continuing medical education for physicians. This course has been reviewed and approved by the UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development. This Group Learning Course meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 1.0 Mainpro+ credits. Each physician should claim only those credits he/she actually spent in the activity.