Drs. Renate Kahlke, Maria Hubinette and Patricia Gerber
Topic: Health Professionals and Health Advocacy: Discord and Debate
Description: Of all the CanMEDS roles, Health Advocate is perhaps the most contentious. Educators, scholars and practitioners have debated questions around health advocacy. This conversation invites questions such as: What is health advocacy? Should health advocacy be a mandatory component of professionals’ work? What kind(s) of health advocacy should professionals be required to engage in? How should it be taught? How should it be assessed?
Participants will be able to:
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1: Consider current debates in health advocacy
2: Develop working definitions of health advocacy
3: Discuss how health advocacy is learned
Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm
- formal presentations and discussion from 12:00pm – 1:00pm, ongoing moderated discussion 1:00pm – 1:30pm
- feel free to bring a bagged lunch
Locations:
- LSC 1312
- DHCC 2263
- MSB 131
- RJH CA 011
- KGH CAC 237
- NHSC 9-374
Remote:
- Movi J, ID 30220
- VC Anywhere, user guide
Accreditation:
The University of British Columbia Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide study credits for continuing medical education for physicians. This course has been reviewed and approved by the UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development. This Group Learning course meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 1.0 Mainpro+ credits. This course is an Accredited Group Learning Activity eligible for up to 1.0 MOC Section 1 credits as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Each physician should claim only those credits he/she actually spent in the activity.
