We look forward to welcoming you to this half-day, in-person conference to explore and celebrate the innovative research and scholarship happening across the Department of Family Medicine. This event aims to bridge research and practice, strengthen relationships and inspire our scholarly community. At DFM, we are all scholars — come connect, share and be inspired!
David Braley Health Sciences Centre
Second floor – 100 Main St West, Hamilton
Limited paid public parking available in lot at 100 Main St. W. Parking also available at 114 Main St. W.
Elevators are located on the Main Floor near Cafe on Bay.
Please connect with us a dfmresearch@mcmaster.ca if you have any accessibility requests.
8:15 to 8:45 a.m.
Second Floor Atrium
Breakfast
8:45 to 8:55 a.m.
Second Floor Atrium
Welcome, Land Acknowledgment
Cathy Risdon, Fiona Kouyoumdjian and Laura Cleghorn
8:55 to 9 a.m.
Migration
9 to 9:50 a.m.
Owl’s Perch 1
Room 2035
20,000 Leagues Under the Hospital: Using Comics to Explore Race and Colonialism in Medical Education and Clinical Practice
Ellen Amster
Unveiling the ‘hidden curriculum’ of family medicine in undergraduate medical education at McMaster University
Lawrence Grierson, Keyna Bracken, Sarah Kinzie, Nicole Fu, Aimun Shah, Helen Neighbour, Sharon Bal, Stacey Ritz, Meredith Vanstone, Cathy Risdon, Matt Sibbald
Predictors for success and failure in international medical graduates: a systematic review of prognostic factor studies
Inge Schabort
Room 2036
Strengthening Team-Based Care: Implementing the Micro-Team Model at McMaster Family Practice
Doug Oliver, Jill Berridge, Neha Arora
Scalability of the Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) Program using an implementation science approach: replicability of program impact in primary care British Columbia, Canada and Victoria, Australia
Gina Agarwal
Team Approach to Polypharmacy Evaluation and Reduction (TAPER): Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Dee Mangin, Jennifer Salerno
Room 2008
Social and Medical Complexities of Patients with Substance Use: Findings from the Program for Substance Use in Pregnancy (PROSPR) Integrated Care Program
Suzanne Turner
Notes to Networks: Re-imagining Family Medicine Research with Artificial Intelligence
Shuaib Hafid
Using the Delphi method to identify items to include in reporting guidelines for health research involving people who are incarcerated as participants
Jessica Gaber
Birds of a Feather
In each room, following the presentations, there will be a discussion period to consider relevance to our individual and collective work.
9:50 to 9:55 a.m.
Migration
9:55 to 10:45 a.m.
Hummingbird Talks
Room 2035
Barriers and Facilitators for Lung Ultrasound use among Physicians in Emergency Departments: A Feasibility Study
Farhan Pervaiz
PREnatal Syphilis point-of-care ScreenING in an urban low-barrier clinic (PRESSING): A prospective single arm feasibility trial
Njideka Sanya
Integration of a palliative approach to care pathway into an interdisciplinary health team and its effect on provider uptake, increased ability to serve orphaned patients, and patient/caregiver satisfaction
Erin Gallagher
Managing my overflowing inbox: Preliminary findings of family physician experiences of administrative burden
Melissa Shivnauth
GPS Navigators – Providing Palliative Care Navigation to Refugees Claimants in Ontario
Priya Gupta
The Sound of Evidence: MUSIC’s Role in Practice-Based Research and Quality Improvement
Michelle Howard, Rebecca Clark
Room 2036
Creating a Dashboard to Capture Education Activities and Outcomes for the Division of Palliative Care: Defining Scope and Priorities
Michelle Howard
“There’s always something to learn…” The Impact of ECHO COP Participation: A Mixed Methods Evaluation”
Ashlinder Gill
‘We can all learn together so we’re all on the same page:’ Impact of LEAP Hospital Course on Hospitalist Practice and Enhancing Generalist Palliative Care Support’
Sarah Romeril
Evaluating virtual care for diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a pre-post retrospective cohort pilot study in a Canadian family health team
Karla Freeman
IRIS: The IRIS Program: A novel pathway to optimize treatment of injection-related infections for people who inject drugs
Rebecca Clark
A Chart Review of Driving Fitness Decisions Before and After Candrive Risk Stratification Tool Implementation
Ehab Wassif, Cindy Gabrielle, Anil Esleben, Seddiq Weera, Larry Chambers
Room 2008
Compliance of Referral Forms with Regulatory College Requirements: A mixed-methods document analysis across 5 Canadian provinces
Katrina Shen
Piecing together care in a strained primary care system: A research protocol to understand how patients without sufficient access to primary care meet their healthcare needs
Vivian Vuong
Primary Care Attachment: Who’s Falling Through the Gaps and How CHCs Can Close Them
Abisha Yogaratnam
Reading Between the Lines: Exploring Literature as a Tool for Addressing Psychological Distress in Primary Care
Natalie Blysniuk
How do temporary closures of urgent care centres/emergency departments impact patient volume and acuity? Evidence from the Niagara Health System
Zahra Ridha
The effects of medical professionalization on mortality: evidence from historical training in emergency medicine
Natalia Mangos
Birds of a Feather
In each room, following the presentations, there will be a discussion period to consider relevance to our individual and collective work.
10:45 to 11 a.m.
Break
11 to 11:50 a.m.
Owl’s Perch 2
Room 2035
Advancing Health Equity Through Socio-Demographic and Race-Based Data: A Proposed Initiative in Primary Care
Neha Arora, Andrea Pansoy and Carissa Buckmiller
Developing and Implementing a Prison Health Research Council of People with Lived Experience of Incarceration
Nat Kaminski, Prison Health Research Council
Decolonizing Qualitative Research: How to reconcile methodological rubs in unsettling spaces
Joyce Zazulak, Lorrie Gallant, Nicole Knibb, Laura Cleghorn
Room 2036
Establishing Definitions and Indications of Integrated Palliative Care Across Family Medicine and Subspecialties
Michelle Howard
The Canadian Atlas of Palliative Care: Ontario Edition
Rebecca Clark
From black to green: the new colour of death
Myles Sergeant and Erin Gallagher
Room 2008
Mapping Primary Care Attachment in the Greater Hamilton Health Network
Cathy Risdon
How Ontario family physician responses to patient expectations may explain observed gender, race, and immigration status pay gaps: A qualitative study
Meredith Vanstone
“Propping up a broken system”: Family physicians’ perspectives on managing fees for uninsured services in Ontario”
Asiana Elma
Birds of a Feather
In each room, following the presentations, there will be a discussion period to consider relevance to our individual and collective work.
11:50 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Second Floor Atrium
Closing Remarks
Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Cathy Risdon, Laura Cleghorn