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!

QBOL - Let's get it started!

We've been focusing our efforts recently to produce our QBOL blurb for the CaRMS website and we also hope to develop our other promotional materials soon.

I hope we will have good representation from the QBOL Site Committee at the upcoming 2011 Family Medicine Forum in Montreal this November 3rd to 5th (educator's day on November 2nd) so that we can start our "sales pitch" and generate interest in what we are developing.  Hope to see you there!

In addition, the LHEARN Centre at Lakeridge Health Oshawa which houses our new classroom facilities, administrative space, resident lounge, sim lab, and library will be showcased in a grand opening ceremony on September 14th at 2 pm.  That evening, Queen's Department of Family Medicine will also be hosting a faculty development session.  Please let us know if you need further information about this session.

I can't tell you how excited we are to finally be progressing from the planning phase of our program development as we get ready to meet with some future QBOL residents.