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Taking Flight: Celebrating DFM Excellence

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