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  • S4 Ep14: Violence and Mental Health. Advocating for Mental Health in the North featuring Dr. Barb Kane

    S4 Ep14: Violence and Mental Health. Advocating for Mental Health in the North featuring Dr. Barb Kane
    2025/06/20
    It’s a problem which we read and hear about in the media on an all too regular basis. But violence and mental health is not only a problem on our city streets, it’s also an issue in our hospitals. This week’s guest is Northern psychiatrist Dr. Barb Kane. In this episode we talk about why violence and mental health is such a big problem, how it came about and her proposed Northern solution.

    Links: Read about and sign the petition at change.org
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    32 分
  • S4 Ep13: Wraparound care for Alcohol Use Disorder in the Emergency Department featuring Dr. Aron Zuidhof and Dorrie Fasick

    S4 Ep13: Wraparound care for Alcohol Use Disorder in the Emergency Department featuring Dr. Aron Zuidhof and Dorrie Fasick
    2025/05/30
    Patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) are some of the heaviest users of western healthcare resources and particularly emergency departments. Effective treatments for alcohol use disorder have recently become available but only a very small proportion of eligible AUD receive treatment. To talk about their excellent quality improvement work in identifying eligible AUD patients and directing them towards appropriate care from the emergency department, are our two guests today, Dr. Aron Zuidhof, Medical Director for Emergency Services in Interior Health and Dorrie Fasick, Transformational Lead for the Interior Health Emergency Services Network. They talk us through the groundbreaking, wrap-around, care-pathway for AUD they’ve helped develop and at the same time, offer a masterclass in spread and implementation of this initiative to all 28 facilities in their health region.

    Links:

    AUD in ED Work Flow FV
    Help is Available
    AUD Outpatient Prescription
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    34 分
  • S4 Ep12: From Tiny Acorns - The Amazing Origin Story of BC’s Physician Quality Improvement Program featuring Dr. Curt Smecher

    S4 Ep12: From Tiny Acorns - The Amazing Origin Story of BC’s Physician Quality Improvement Program featuring Dr. Curt Smecher
    2025/05/09
    British Columbia’s Physician Quality Improvement (PQI) program celebrates its 8th birthday this year. Since inception, this program has produced amazing improvement work some of which we’ve showcased on this podcast. PQI has also generated a culture shift towards quality amongst the physician community throughout the province. Our special guest today is Dr. Curt Smecher, aka “Papa QI”, the person responsible for PQIs original vision and first training cohort. In this episode, we talk to Curt about PQI’s humble beginnings, the progress and impact of the program to date and its exciting next phase. We also hear how redefining barriers as “speed bumps” and a thoughtful, incremental approach towards its goals, has produced the program’s impressive results.
    Abbreviations used during this episode:
    PQI – Physician Quality Improvement
    SSC – Specialist Services Committee, a collaborative committee between the Doctors of BC and the British Columbian Ministry of Health
    Ministry – BC Ministry of Health
    Fraser – Fraser Health Authority
    We love to hear from you, our listeners. Send us your feedback or ask us a question about healthcare quality improvement by emailing us at qualitycomms@northernhealth.ca.
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    33 分
  • S4 Ep11: The Good and Wise Lead QI Lives. Special "Mic-Swap" Episode with Guest Host Dr. Gurpreet Narang and featuring Dr. Shyr Chui

    S4 Ep11: The Good and Wise Lead QI Lives. Special "Mic-Swap" Episode with Guest Host Dr. Gurpreet Narang and featuring Dr. Shyr Chui
    2025/04/25
    In this special “mic swap” episode, Lee Cameron and guest co-host Dr. Gurpreet Narang turn the tables on our regular co-host Shyr Chui to ask him about his journey into QI, some of his current projects and memorable highlights from over 20 years of QI work. Amongst other things, we touch on Whole System Quality, building strong QI teams, artificial intelligence and what gets him out of bed every morning.

    Links:
    IHI White paper on Whole System Quality (Juran’s Quality Trilogy)
    Qualitystream North
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    36 分
  • S4 Ep10: Improving Access to Emergency Care for West Coast Indigenous Communities featuring Dr. Jim Christenson

    S4 Ep10: Improving Access to Emergency Care for West Coast Indigenous Communities featuring Dr. Jim Christenson
    2025/03/31
    Today’s guest is a giant and well-respected figure in British Columbian Emergency Medicine. In addition to his many research and quality improvement projects, Dr. Jim Christenson helped create the British Columbia Emergency Medicine Network improving the quality of emergency care across the province. But far from slowing down in retirement, he’s continued pioneering work, turning his attention to the rural, indigenous communities on the west coast of Vancouver Island. In this insightful and moving interview Dr. Christenson talks about the current state of healthcare in these remote communities, the challenges of addressing inequity, his personal motivation for this work and some of the incredible and heartwarming encounters he’s experienced on the way.

    Links:
    Northern Health PQI
    E-mail us!
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    56 分
  • S4 Ep9: Continuing Medicine at the Edge featuring Dr. Ray Markham

    S4 Ep9: Continuing Medicine at the Edge featuring Dr. Ray Markham
    2025/03/07
    In the second part of our interview with Northern Rural Family Physician, Dr. Ray Markham, we discuss some of his leadership work supporting rural communities across the province through the Rural Coordination Centre of BC. We discuss how to build a provincial support network and how the constraints of geography and remoteness can be turned to advantage by fueling innovation to improve care “at the edge”.

    Links:
    Partnership Pentagram
    RCCbc
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    23 分
  • S4 Ep8: Northern BC Canucks visit the IHI Forum featuring Dr. Kalah Blackstock, Dr. Darren Jakubec, Dr. Christin Fabriel-Leclerc, Dr. Ian Schokking and Dr. Omesh Syal

    S4 Ep8: Northern BC Canucks visit the IHI Forum featuring Dr. Kalah Blackstock, Dr. Darren Jakubec, Dr. Christin Fabriel-Leclerc, Dr. Ian Schokking and Dr. Omesh Syal
    2025/02/14
    Each year, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement holds its annual forum in December. Over 4 days, between 3 to 4 thousand healthcare quality improvers from across the world join together for a packed program of workshops, QI project reports, improvement science education and keynote lectures from renown speakers. This year, a large contingent of Canadians made the trip including some from Northern British Columbia so we decided to bring these Northern Physicians together for a fun panel discussion about their experiences and what they learned from this year’s forum. This is the recording of that discussion moderated by our regular Qualitycast North host Dr. Shyr Chui. We talk about our key takeaways, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s keynote, power networking and tips for first-time forum attendees.

    Links:
    Institute for Healthcare Improvement
    Dr. Kedar Mate and Dr. Thomas Lee Keynote
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    35 分
  • S4 Ep7: Medicine at the edge featuring Dr. Ray Markham

    S4 Ep7: Medicine at the edge featuring Dr. Ray Markham
    2025/01/24
    If you’re ever tempted to think medicine is practised the same everywhere in British Columbia, think again. Small rural communities present specific challenges to healthcare delivery due to their size and location, no more so than in the North where we also have long, snowy winters to contend with. That’s not to say that rural care can’t be high quality care. Providing valuable insights into rural family practice is today’s guest Dr. Ray Markham. This interview was so good we split it into two separate episodes. In this first part, Ray talks about his rural, generalist practice in Valemount, how to promote good teamwork and the unsung benefits of working in rural medicine.

    Links:
    Partnership Pentagram
    RCCbc
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    29 分