We're in the local news!

The good news:  Here's a little article that came out of the ALARM course we hosted at the LHEARN earlier this week.  Let's keep up the good work everyone!

DurhamRegion Article: Oshawa medical students get hands-on training on emergency births

The bad news:  According to the article, our residents may have been demoted back to being medical students...

Friday the 13th was a "Nightmares FM" day.

Shhh.

Here are some photos from QBOL's inaugural Nightmares FM course which took place last Thursday and Friday at the LHEARN Centre.  The LHEARN Centre is a recently opened facility housed at Lakeridge Health Oshawa which provides numerous teaching and meeting facilities including two brand new simulation labs.

(And yes, through some fortuitous and entirely unintentional planning, the second day of our Nightmares FM course did actually fall on Friday the 13th.)





This Nightmares FM course welcomed our batch of first year QBOL residents along with additional Queen's residents from other sites in a safe, non-judgemental learning environment.  The goal of this simulation course is to better prepare our future family physicians to respond confidently and competently to the needs of acutely ill patients.

Day 1 briefing session.

Ready to go!

We plan to take advantage of these state of the art facilities with refresher Nightmares FM courses and additional simulation courses.

QBOLers getting ready to roll.

Monitoring the scenario.

I also want to give special thanks to Dr. Randy Wax for assisting with the set up and mannequin support and to Drs. Aubrey Kassirer and Ed Osborne who were the primary instructors.  Your time, effort, preparation, and enthusiasm really helped to set the tone for our first simulation course and made for a very successful learning day!

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Nightmares course will hopefully continue with great fun on Friday the 13th, and for lighter fare, the Bowmanville Visual Arts Centre is hosting the Bard's play outside (in if raining) on Sunday only. $15 at 7:30. Should be fun!

And we've launched!

It's been tremendously exciting the last couple days as we've welcomed our first batch of "live" residents to the QBOL site!  The weather over the past couple days has been a bit too damp and then a lot too hot / humid but it hasn't taken away from the true joy of seeing everybody's positive energy and enthusiasm so far.

Continuing the aerospace theme, we'll continue to try to give our residents a "boost" to start things off with our additional planned orientation activities throughout July before everyone settles in to their longitudinal learning experiences woven together with a Family Medicine thread in August.

Just a reminder to our preceptors to feel free to go to the separate preceptor blog (Behind the QBOL - link in the left hand bar on this screen) just to review or comment on things as we progress and a reminder to everybody to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Onwards and upwards!