The Vancouver Acute/Vancouver Community (VA/VC) Medical Staff Planetary Health Committee works to educate, engage, and empower medical staff to become planetary health leaders in their professional lives with the goal of increasing awareness within their departments and affiliated institutions to lead rapid change in systems and processes. The committee collaborates with relevant stakeholders to ensure a unified message and shared purpose of work. It is a joint committee of the … Read More
Profiling our task groups and committees: Engaging Physicians in Indigenous Cultural (EPIC) Safety Task Group
Monday, September 30 is both Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. It is an important date for health-care providers to acknowledge. The day honours the children who never returned home and survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led grassroots initiative intended to raise awareness of the individual, family and community inter-generational impacts of residential schools. The orange … Read More
Profiling our task groups and committees: Clinical Systems Transformation
Our CST Task Group has been active since 2019; it was formed to ensure the physician voice was heard in the development of CST Cerner. Its members now work to ensure the successful sustainment of CST at VGH and UBC Hospital and to support the upcoming rollout of CST at GF Strong. The group has been chaired by Dr. Raheem Kherani for several years; other VPSA members who sit on … Read More
Environmental and health impacts of your diet
We know what we eat affects our health as well as the health of our planet. Sustainable diets are promoted as one of the ways we can reduce our environmental footprint, but less is known about their impact on our health. In the first of its speaker series, the Vancouver Acute/Vancouver Community Medical Staff Planetary Health Committee enlisted University of Oxford Senior Nutritional Epidemiologist Keren Papier to discuss sustainability and … Read More
VPSA awards funding to five groups for commensality sessions
It’s well known that having a sense of community and connection is good for our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. That’s why VPSA is funding a six-month commensality group pilot program. Five applications were approved for this first round: three from the Department of Family Medicine; one from Neurology; and another from Psychiatry. Commensality groups have been shown to reduce physician burnout, decrease depression, and improve job satisfaction. Originally studied … Read More