Emergency Medicine: PD Post - June 2017
Lots to celebrate!
This is the final PD post for this academic year, and there is much to celebrate!
Congratulations to our PGY-5 residents, Drs. Sidney Chiu, Dennis Cho, Lindsey McMurray, Brodie Nolan, Adam Slomer, Sheena Taylor, and Jaqueline Willinksy, for the successful completion of their Royal College examination! I look forward to seeing your careers as EM staff/faculty unfold in the years to come. Join us in celebrating their success invitation link.
A sincere thanks to our EM staff for making the 1,3,5 S Initiative (formerly knows as “1 Session, 3 Steps, 5 Staff” – click here for more information) a success! We have surpassed our expectations and achieved our target goal of five staff per academic session in 94% of sessions, have had attendance from nine sites and reached a record attendance of 39 staff. We will go on a hiatus for the summer and resume sign up for the 2017-18 academic year towards the end of August. Your ongoing attendance, engagement, and mentorship drive our program and the residents to higher grounds. Thank you!
Congratulations to our PGY-1, 2, 3, 4 residents who have successfully completed this past academic year, and for all your achievements. I am in awe of all of you, and the uniqueness that you bring to our program. A special mention to the following for the recognition of their work in winning the following awards (in alphabetical order): Dr. Evelyn Dell (incoming PGY-5), 2017 Dr. Philip Berger Advocacy Award; Dr. Alia Dharamsi (incoming PGY-4) 2017 Postgraduate Medical Trainee Leadership Award; Dr. Ahmed Taher (incoming PGY-4), CAEP FRCP Resident Leadership Award.
Nima Heirat is moving on from our program to take on new and exciting challenges effective June 14, 2017. Nima has been the EM program’s administrative assistant for five years, and she has been instrumental in helping the program during leadership changes, and in implementing a number of quality improvement initiatives this past year. Please join me in thanking her, and wishing her the best in her future endeavors. A search for a new program administrator in underway.
Last, but not least, congrats to Dr. Margaret Thompson for winning the Anna Jarvis Award and to Dr. Robert Simmard for the Outstanding Clinical Teacher Award.
I hope you all have a great summer (if it ever gets here!). Signing off. “See you” all in the September newsletter.
Nazanin
