YMA AGM-CPD Weekend

In this session, we will review the latest updates on the following topics:
1. First seizure management
2. Headache management
3. Secondary Prevention of Stroke
4. Dementia Demyelinating disorder

Objective 1: review available data on the association between physician sex and patient outcomes
Objective 2: consider the role of patient-physician sex concordance on patient outcomes

The ecological crisis is threatening health and the social, structural, and planetary foundations we depend upon to run health systems. The alarming nature of the news combined with a lack of coverage in medical curricula and patchy instruction in advocacy skills means that most physicians don’t know what they don’t know about how to contribute to the management of the climate emergency. And yet, globally, physicians are leading the way. The same skills that make us good at managing clinical emergencies–excellent team leadership, effective communication skills, the ability to lead through uncertainty, and a bias for action, make us world-class advocates for a healthy response to climate change. By shifting practice, money, and power physicians can lead a push for the healthy future needed to protect health and health systems.

Learning Objectives
1. Describe the planetary health frame and how it relates to health and health systems.(scholar, professional)
2. Anticipate and manage the major threats posed by climate change to health and health systems. (leader, professional)
3. Describe priority action items to protect planetary health now and into the future. (leader, scholar, advocate, professional, communicator)

Objective 1: understand (some of) the ingrained biases in medical practice
Objective 2: review data on the benefits of diversity in medicine

Recent years have seen hundreds of deaths from heat emergencies, thousands of people evacuated due to wildfires, and floods destroying infrastructure and interrupting supply chains. We know that Canada will become generally warmer, wetter, and more fiery until at least mid-century. We need to prepare to provide care through our climate-changed present and future.


Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the major threats to health and health systems from climate change in Canada.
2. Know where to access temperature and precipitation projections for your region in order to anticipate future challenges and prepare emergency systems and infrastructure.
3. Describe pearls and pitfalls for the management of heat and wildfire emergencies