Under the auspices of the Continuing Professional Development Office at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program supports a variety of high quality continuing education events aimed at practicing anesthesiologists and affiliated health care professionals. Current activities include departmental rounds (held as monthly city-wide forums across London hospitals); weekly site rounds (held at each hospital site and designed to address issues and topics of local interest) and subspecialty rounds and seminars (organized to meet the educational needs of subspecialty groups e.g., cardiac anesthesia, neuroanesthesia, obstetrical anesthesia, etc.).
The CME Program benefitted substantially in 2012-13 with the addition of Erin Cecchini as Program Coordinator.
In addition, the CME Program hosts several lectureships and accredits local, national or international conferences and workshops supported by the Department and organized by its members.
This year we were pleased to welcome Dr. M. Shazam Hussain – an internationally distinguished academic neuroradiologist in the field of vascular neurology – as our Aitken Lecturer, held jointly with the Department of Neurosurgery.
Several projects have been undertaken by the CME work group in 2012/13, including an internal audit and accreditation renewal of ongoing Departmental CME events with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; creation of a self-approved events database and internal registration process for new CME events; and the coordination of a videoconferencing platform that enables the broadcast of rounds events to remote locations across the city.
January 16, 2013
Speaker: Dr. J. Martin & Dr. D. Cheng
Talk: Colloids vs. Crystalloids for Surgical and ICU Patients: Which is Best?
April 17, 2013
Speaker: Dr. D. Cheng
Talk: Health Technology Assessment & Knowledge Translation
June 19, 2013
Speaker: Dr. M. Terlecki & Dr. I. Herrick
Talk: QA Indicator Review 2011-2013
September 4, 2013
Speaker: Dr. P. Jones
Talk: Reproducible Research and Open Data
September 11, 2013
Speaker: Dr. R. McLeod & Dr. S. McCluskey
Talk: iERAS Protocol - Combined Rounds with General Surgery
November 6, 2013
Speaker: Dr. C. Smyth
Talk: The Use of Neuraxial Analgesia in Complex Cancer Pain Management
November 27, 2013
Speaker: Dr. D. Bainbridge
Talk: Death in the OR: A Brief Review of Perioperative Mortality
January 23, 2013
Speaker: Dr. R. Stodilka & Mr. B. Reyes
Talk: 1. Radiation Safety Awareness for Operating Room Staff; 2. London Hospitals Radiation Safety Program and X-Ray Safety
May 15, 2013
Speaker: Dr. R. Mather, Dr. M. Ahmad, Ms. S. Taylor & Ms. P. Brady
Talk: Patient Safety Critical Incident Use of Cautery in the Operating Room
June 5, 2013
Speaker: Dr. I. McConachie, Dr. K. Ower & Ms. H. Fisher
Talk: A New Perioperative Modality for Challenging Pain Patients, Lidocaine Infustions
September 18, 2013
Speaker: Dr. G. Derose, Dr. C. Harle, Mr. Edward McGowan, Ms. AnneMarie McIlmoyl, Ms. Tracy Rau
Talk: Surgical Safety Checklist: How Can We Make It Safer?
March 20, 2013
Speaker: Dr. M. S. Hussain
Talk: General vs. Local Anesthesia for Acute Stroke Intervention
December 11, 2013
Speaker: Dr. B. Orser
Talk: Anesthetics: Unprecedented Biological Probes
October 23, 2013
Speaker: Dr. D. Miller
Talk: Reporting Transparency in Biomedical Publication: What We, As Readers, Should Know
CME Evaluation Form - City-Wide Grand Rounds
