Delphi Monthly
November 2021
Welcome!
Dear members,
It’s hard to believe that November is already here. Time is passing quickly, and we are all doing our best to keep up as health care staff shortages continue across the country.
This year, the Ontario CME will be held in a virtual environment and will offer up to 32 MOC 1 credits. The benefit of a virtual conference in this climate is that you don’t need to leave your practice to engage with your community, allowing you to limit time away from your patients. You can interact with your peers and experts from the comfort of your home or office, all while getting up-to-date content on some very timely issues facing our profession.
On the theme of working together, I will be opening the conference with a session on collaborative care in obstetrics. The rest of the conference will offer a combination of live interactive sessions and on demand sessions so you can plan your participation around what
works best for you.
Here are a few of the sessions you won’t want to miss:
Live interactive sessions:
- Indigenous midwifery and culturally safe reproductive care presented by Ms. Claire Dion Fletcher
- Re-imagining post-partum care at the 4th trimester (Maternal mental health) co – presented by Dr. Simone Vigod and Dr. Lucy Barker
- Equity in the OR: Surgery priority co – presented by Dr. Andrea N. Simpson and Dr. David Gomez
- Coping with competing demands in the pandemic / post-pandemic era presented by Dr. Mamta Gautam
- “Just try to relax”: Practical approaches to integrating trauma-informed care into your clinical practice co – presented by Dr. Heather Christine Millar and Ms. Sharon Lorber
On-demand sessions:
- Domestic violence: How do you ensure confidentiality in a virtual visit? Presented by Dr. Kari Sampsel
- Substance use in pregnancy presented by Dr. Suzanne Turner
- Labour, delivery and birth in people with physical disabilities presented by Dr. Anne Berndl
- Mesh and slings (Senior women with mesh prior menopause) presented by Dr. Aisling A. Clancy
Click HERE to view the full program.
The conference will also have other opportunities for learning both live and on demand in collaboration with our partners in healthcare. The Partner Resource Expo is another area where you have access to free resources provided by our trusted health care partners to support your practice and your patients.
We are confident there will be something for everyone at the conference and look forward to connecting as a community online November 25 -27!
Dr. Margaret Morris
The Ontario CME is happening this month and you can earn 32 MOC 1 credits! In association with the Ontario Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (OSOG), the all-virtual conference takes place from November 25-27, 2021.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Join our next Menopause and Breast Cancer live interactive forum. Presented by Dr. Michelle Jacobson
November 10 at 4 pm ET. Register here
PARTNER NEWS
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CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SURVEY
Help shape a new direction: CMA’s 2021 National Physician Health Survey/Contribuez à redéfinir nos orientations : Sondage national de l’AMC sur la santé des médecins 2021
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is inviting practising physicians, residents and medical students to participate in its 2021 National Physician Health Survey. This is a critical time to understand the key factors affecting your practice, daily interactions, lifestyle, and mental health, as well as how the pandemic has affected pre-existing challenges or brought about new ones.
By sharing your experiences, you will be supporting the CMA and other stakeholders in identifying the individual and system-level changes needed to better support physicians, create a healthier medical culture and guide our country’s post-pandemic recovery.
Complete the survey by Nov. 15. It should take less than 20 minutes; your time is greatly appreciated. If you are unable to click the button, please copy and paste the following survey link into your browser: https://surveys.ipsosinteractive.com/surveys/?pid=S21032894&supplierid=193&cultureinfo=en-ca&id=
Note that for the first time, the survey will be open to all physicians in Canada, not just CMA members.
Results of the survey will be shared in 2022.
| 11th INTERNATIONAL DIP SYMPOSIUM ON DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, METABOLIC SYNDROME & PREGNANCY: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN MATERNAL OFFSPRING HEALTH The 11th International DIP Symposium on Diabetes, Hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome & Pregnancy: Innovative Approaches in Maternal Offspring Health, will take place April 28-30, 2022 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The 11th DIP Symposium aims to highlight the progress of pregnancy – from pre-pregnancy, trimester by trimester, to labor, delivery and post-partum care. Focus will be placed on the prediction and prevention of pregnancy complications – hyperglycemia, hypertension – preeclampsia, preterm birth, NCD’s (Non-Communicable Diseases) and pregnancy, fetal growth and others, as well as the cycle of future NCD’s that begins during the intrauterine life – onto mother and offspring. |
SOGC NEWS
2021 SOGC/ CFWH Journalism Award
The winner of the 2021 SOGC/CFWH Journalism Awards for Excellence in Women’s’ Health reporting is Su-Ling Goh from Global News (Edmonton) for her broadcast piece Should Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women get the COVID-19 Vaccine?, which tackles the topic of vaccine hesitancy amongst pregnant and breastfeeding individuals.
Read the full award announcement here.
2022 ACSC Call for Abstracts
SOGC members have a unique opportunity to have their work seen by over 4,300 health care providers working in the field of women’s health. Abstracts will be on display at the SOGC’s 2022 Annual Clinical and Scientific Conference and published in the May 2022 issue of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada.
For more details on the ACSC Abstract Program, send us an email at abstract@sogc.com
Get your papers ready! Deadline to submit: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 5 PM (EST)
Click here for details.
IN MEMORIAM
We recently had to say goodbye to a few of our esteemed SOGC members. We extend our heartfelt condolences to their families.
Dr. Francis Bainyin Sam
February 10,1937 – October 4, 2021
Dr. Mark J. Bernier
January 28, 1956 – August 14, 2021
Dr. John Fry
November 28, 1923- August 15, 2021
Dr. Richard M. Shatz
1938 – June 11, 2021
We invite you to share your memories at dgutierrez@sogc.com and we will publish all comments received in the next issue of Delphi.
WOMEN’S HEALTH PODCAST
| HPV prevention week with Dr. Durand |
| In this episode, our host Dr. Graeme Smith talks to Dr. Nancy Durand about HPV — the shorthand usually used for the human papillomavirus. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection. In fact, most people who have sex will get HPV at some point in their lives, though many don’t experience symptoms. Read a brief transcript of the podcast here: SOGC: Human papillomavirus or HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection. In fact, most people who have sex will get HPV at some point in their lives though many don’t experience symptoms. Can you comment on how common it actually is? Dr. Durand: HPV is as we said is the most common sexually transmitted infection no matter where you live. No matter where you live in your city, in your province, in Canada, in North America or in fact anywhere in the world. And it’s much more common for example than you might think than things like chlamydia and gonorrhea. And those are some of the most common STIs that come to mind. But in fact HPV is much more common. In our lifetime, it’s estimated that 80 to 90 percent of us will be exposed and infected with HPV at some point. So if you think about that, it’s really is more normal to be exposed to HPV at some point than to have never been exposed at all. And we also often talk about HPV as if it’s one thing and in fact there’s many different types of HPV. Nine of these types are going to be responsible for 90% of the various disorders that it can cause. And you could be infected then with more than one type at the same time or you could clear one HPV infection and then be infected with another type later in your life. Most people are going to clear their HPV infection within about a year or two. And a small percentage of people do not clear their infection and may go on develop one or more of the diseases that HPV causes. SOGC: This is not just an infection of women. Males get HPV too? Yes it’s a virus that is passed from person to person by what we call intimate contact. So that might be transmissioned during sexual intercourse but it could also be transmitted by genital touching that does not necessarily involve penetrative sex. And while HPV was traditionally thought of as something that affects women and causes cervical cancer, we now know that also it affects males. So in addition to cancer of the cervix, HPV also causes external genital warts in both males and females, anal cancer, penile cancer and cancers of the mouth and throat. Now males are particularly vulnerable to HPV as they don’t mount a very good immune response to natural HPV infection. For example, HPV cancers of the mouth and throat are 4 to 5 times higher in males than they are in females. And these particular cancers have been rapidly increasing over the past 10 to 20 years. … Listen to the rest of the podcast here. |
FEATURED ONLINE COURSE
November 26th is Iron deficiency Day. Learn more about Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) by taking our online course: Iron Deficiency Anemia: Bridging the Gap.
GUIDELINES AND COMMITTEE OPINIONS
OCTOBER CLINICAL GUIDELINE
Guideline No. 422a: Menopause: Vasomotor Symptoms, Prescription Therapeutic Agents, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Nutrition, and Lifestyle
Nese Yuksel, PharmD, Debra Evaniuk, MD, Lina Huang, MDCM, Unjali Malhotra, MDJennifer Blake, MD, MSc, Wendy Wolfman, MD and Michel Fortier, MD
STAY TUNED for the release of three new menopause guidelines later this month!
DID YOU KNOW?
You can currently access guidelines and all JOGC content by logging into your SOGC member portal!
Use either the quick link on the homepage or the links in “My Guidelines” to access the JOGC from your personal device or desktop.
THE SOGC GUIDELINE RESOURCE KITS
Our guideline resource kits have moved to the SOGC portal!
Make sure to check out the latest offerings here.
COMMITTEE NEWS
A Message from the SOGC Resident Advocacy and Wellness Committee
Hello OBGYN residents of Canada from the SOGC Resident Advocacy and Wellness Committee!
We would like to thank you so much for your participation thus far in the September and October wellness activities! We have received so many great photos of you making wellness your priority. We’ve seen beautiful September hikes and delicious October baked goods!
For the month of November, we would like to recommend trying a new activity. It could be anything – taking a dance class, watching an online tutorial on how to knit, learning to cook something new, playing chess, learning a magic trick, painting, picking up a new instrument or learning a new song… the possibilities are endless! Spend some time being creative and trying new things, it has so many positive effects on one’s life and mental health.
Once again, if you would like to, please send us a picture of this new hobby/activity to sogcwellness@gmail.com for your chance to win wellness prizes. If this is a group event, list the name of the residents included for their chance to win as well. If you indicate consent in the email, we’ll include that photo in the end-of-year scrapbook for the annual SOGC conference.
Enjoy the month of November, and don’t forget to prioritize some time for yourselves and your wellness. We have to keep those energy tanks full to help us be our best selves 🙂
Sincerely,
Your SOGC Advocacy and Wellness Committee
| The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care is recruiting new members. This is a unique opportunity to assist in the development of national clinical practice guidelines. Apply before November 30, 2021. Full qualification and application details are online. |
MONTHLY FEATURE
WOMEN IN THE COVID RECOVERY
By Jillian Murdoch
COVID-19 has touched everyone around the world in some capacity. It has changed the way individuals live their lives, it has impacted the way our society functions, and it has had notable effects on the economy. All the while, the effects of the pandemic have not been equal in measure across all demographics. As with most global crises, the pandemic has affected marginalized groups to a much greater extent than the wealthy and the privileged. Influenced by prevailing gender norms, with less job security, and more unpaid labour, women in particular have carried a heavy burden throughout the pandemic. As we begin to consider the path to recovery, it is important that we are critical of the way the pandemic has had varied impacts on society, and address these moving forward.