Previously Funded Projects
VPSA has been funding physician-led projects since 2017.
The following list of projects were funded under either the Small Steps, Big Idea or the Engagement Accelerator streams. While funding is no longer available for Engagement Accelerator projects, these are the equivalent of four Small Steps, Big Idea applications.
Small Steps, Big Idea Projects
- Short-term Palliative Care for Patients without Primary Care Providers
- Physician Writing Retreat
- Women in ENT Surgery & Thoracic Surgery Group (WISEST)
- Sustainable Anesthesia For the Environment (SAFE)
- Understanding Healthcare Provider and Patient Experiences with Emergency Department Suboxone
- Understanding Healthcare Provider and Patient Experiences with Emergency Department Suboxone Phase 2
- Ophthalmology COVID-19 Rapid Access Triage and Referral
- COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Documenting Lessons Learned from VCH Family and Community Practice
- Improving Delivery of Care in the ED for Patients with Substance Use Disorders
- My Hospital Footprint
- Lunch and learn to decrease Banfield-VGH ED transfers
- Emergency Department consultants liaison pilot project
- Coffee meet ups
- Virtual fracture liaison services in VGH ED
- Global Health and Social Justice Movie Night
Engagement Accelerator Projects
- Vaping and Youth: Pathways to Care and Prevention
- Improving Indigenous Patient Care through Physician Engagement
- Addressing Cost-Related Nonadherence to Prescription Medications
- CRNA project update
- Complex Nerve Injury unified evaluation process
- Developing an Adolescent Transition Policy for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes
- Medical-Surgical Collaboration for Spasticity Management
- Business Transformation Project for General Surgery
- UIHHC Inter-Professional Team Development – Nurturing Collaboration Between Indigenous Elders & Primary Care Providers
- Interactive Webinars for Women in Medicine
- Emergency Department Consultation Guideline Initiative
- Engagement For Innovation in Technology (eFIT) Interest Group
- VGH Crisis Management and Simulation Working Group
- Improving Physician Engagement & Wellbeing Through Exercise
- Longitudinal Inter-Departmental Code Orange Planning at VGH
- Perioperative Cardiac Risk Evaluation and Management for Noncardiac Surgery
- Pre-operative optimization prior to major oncology surgery as a component of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
- Emergency and Internal Medicine Consultant Relations