VCH-wide wellness survey results delivered at Medical Staff Forum

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VCH’s Interim Regional Medical Director, Medical Staff Wellness, Dr. Fahreen Dossa and VPSA Operations Director Andrew Pinfold presented an overview of the results of the recent physician wellness survey at VCH’s December Medical Staff Forum. These high-level results will be broken down where confidentiality allows into regional, departmental and divisional results that will be shared with the appropriate parties over the next few months. Dr. Dossa emphasized that medical staff … Read More

Power in numbers: MSA presidents create new council

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VCH MSA presidents have formed a Presidents Council as a forum to share ideas and collaborate on initiatives that benefit all medical staff working at VCH.  The council plans to also include PHC in future meetings. Presidents from all nine medical staff associations will be represented on the council, which will work closely with its health authority partners as well as Doctors of BC. The first meeting of the Presidents … Read More

New Planetary Health Committee members advocate for change

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Two new physicians have joined the Vancouver Acute/Vancouver Community (VA/VC) Medical Staff Planetary Health Committee. Drs. Richard Cook and Jay Slater join committee chair Dr. Matthew Bennett and Drs. Rashmi Chadha, Kelly Lau, Harpinder Nagi, and Tyler Smith as VPSA representatives in promoting the committee’s work. The group’s mandate is to educate, engage, and empower medical staff to become planetary health leaders in their professional lives with the goal of … Read More