MacEmerg Podcast

Welcome to Episode 20 of our MacEmerg podcast. Please take a moment to complete our survey, sharing with us your thoughts on our podcast! This will help us continue to make quality content best suited for our listeners!

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In this episode:

1) This is a special Resident Take-Over edition of the podcast. Dr. Spencer Sample interviews our trainees from the new Royal College EM program first year cohort about their transition from med school to residency! Drs. Frank Battaglia (U of Ottawa Alumni), Mohamed Mansi (King Saud University Alumni), and Maggie Vincent (University of Limerick).

2)Dr. Alim Nagji takes a much needed break this month to spend some time with his family. Instead, we brought in a different Alim to cohost with TChan. Guest star Dr. Alim Pardhan joins Dr. Teresa Chan for a special edition of TTC11 - where we discuss letters of reference and how to write them.

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Welcome to Episode 19 of our MacEmerg podcast. Please take a moment to complete our survey, sharing with us your thoughts on our podcast! This will help us continue to make quality content best suited for our listeners!

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In this episode:

1) Dr. Teresa Chan interviews Tim O'Shea about his work within health advocacy for his patients in Hamilton via the HAMSMaRT (Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team) program. This program is comprised of a team of dedicated health care providers seeking to ensure quality health care to Hamiltonians wherever and whoever they may be.

2)Guest star Dr. Krista Dowhos (PGY-3, CCFP-EM) is back again for another edition of Teaching that Counts with co-hosts Alim Nagji and Teresa Chan.

3) Resident's Corner section features Dr. Joana Dida interviewing Drs. Ben Forestell and Lauren Beals (new PGY1s in the RCPSC program) who are the co-founders of ClerkCast - a limited series that they designed for CanadiEM.org. Find out more about what these talented trainees have to say about the origins of this series.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Welcome to Episode 18 of our MacEmerg podcast. Please take a moment to complete our

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In this episode:

1) Dr. Brendon Trotter interviews Dr. Kashif Pirzada who speaks about the amazing grassroot

initiatives that have taken place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mixed in this amazing

interview are tips on how YOU can start your own start-up initiative!

2) Dr’s. Teresa Chan and Alim Nagji talk with incoming EM+1 resident Dr. Krista Dowhos in a ‘Teaching That

Counts’ segment focused on understanding how to approach feedback and get the most out of it!

3) Our very own Dr. Joana Dida is interviewed by colleague Dr. Spencer Sample in this month's episode of Residents Corner, where Dr. Dida speaks about her experiences as a PGY3 and what it means to transition from a junior to senior resident!

Welcome to Episode 17 of our MacEmerg podcast. Firstly, we would like to invite you to all to participate in our first ever MacEmerg Podcast Survey. Please share with us your thoughts on our podcast?

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In this episode we feature:

1) Dr. Kevin Dong interviews Dr. Teresa Chan about the rise in use of Social Media within medicine. No longer can we ignore that this is a key way that we are learning as physicians and healthcare providers in the modern world.

2)Dr. Alison Yantzi speaks to Dr. Joana Dida in an segment for Resident's Corner about Parental leave during residency.

1) Dr. Kevin Dong interviews Dr. James Leung on the in situ simulation procedures used by the McMaster Children's Hospital Simulation team.

2)Our residents (Drs. Joana Dida, Laila Nasser, Tara Stratton, Noorin Walji, Mark Hewitt, Jada Fitzpatrick, Alvin Chin) discuss how they are dealing and de-stressing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

3)We also feature another Teaching that Counts (segment 8)by Drs. Alim Nagji and Teresa Chan, this time featuring how we can support our learners either online (for our medical students) and our residents who are still in our clinical spaces.

Dr. Kevin Dong (MacEmerg producer) recently invited in situ and quality improvement leaders from Hamilton area EDs to talk about how they are using simulation to educate and improve COVID-19 preparedness.

The doctors in this episode include Alex Chorley (HHS), Michael Ha (SJHH), Chris Heyd (HHS), and Shawn Mondoux (SJHH). They discuss how they used various new forms of simulation to test new protocols, trial donning/doffing procedures, identify latent safety threats, and engage in virtual simulation.

Listen now to find out what they have to share.

HFAM (Hamilton Family Medicine) Advanced Care Planning/Goals fo Care Task Force has been working hard to advocate for our most vulnerable patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most important topics of discussion is about Advanced Care Planning and how this will be extremely vital to the Goals of Care of our patients if they arrive in the ED and unwell from the virus. We need to talk about this NOW and all Primary Care and Specialty Physicians should discuss this with their most high-risk patients and their families.

Dr. Kevin Dong (MacEmerg producer) recently invited Dr. Erin Gallagher and Dr. James Williams who are both Family and Palliative Care Physicians to speak with him on this topic. Not only are these three experts on this present topic, but they are also extremely passionate about ensuring that this conversations go well. Listen now as they provide their insights and pearls on this extremely important topic.

Welcome to Episode 15 of our MacEmerg podcast. In this episode we feature:

1) Our residents give us an update about all the really amazing things they've been doing to support front-line workers in this age of COVID-19.

2) Dr. Ari Greenwald shares his perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic.

3) Dr. Jonathan Edlow's Regional Rounds recap is presented (to give us all a much needed a break from COVID-19 content).

4)We also feature another Teaching that Counts (segment 7) by Drs. Alim Nagji and Teresa Chan. This time they discuss psychological safety.

Alert! This is a special episode of MacEmerg Podcast. Today on March 26, 2020, our own Dr. Teresa Chan hosted the Department of Medicine's Chair's Rounds with Dr. Zain Chagla (@zchagla) on the topic of COVID19. Dr. Chagla reviewed the up-to-the-day evidence on #COVID19 diagnosis and management, with full critical appraisals of the most recent literature.

The full talk and discussion is archived on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m0TyZW1x83Y?t=2

At that link in the comments there are links to his slides as well as some of the Q&A answers that we could not cover.

Welcome to Episode 14 of our MacEmerg podcast. In this episode we feature:

1) Dr. Leila Salehi from William Osler is interviewed (by our Bramptonian Correspondent Dr. Prashant Phalpher) about her research on ED overcrowding.

2) Dr. Lauren Cook-Chaimowitz (PGY4 and chief resident)talks about her Point-of-Care Ultrasound fellowship experience with Dr. Joana Dida.

3)We also feature another Teaching that Counts (segment 6) by Drs. Alim Nagji and Teresa Chan. This time they discuss the Anatomy of Feedback.