Family Medicine Academic Day 2026
Family Medicine Academic Day is an initiative of the Department of Family Medicine, bringing together residents, graduate students, and clinicians to showcase high-quality scholarship. Held annually, the event highlights a diverse range of work from innovative research to impactful quality improvement projects, all rooted in the real-world practice of primary care.
Learning Objectives:
Overall
- Engage with scholarly work presented by residents, graduate students, researchers, and clinicians to deepen understanding of current research and innovations in family medicine.听
- Build connections among clinicians, researchers, residents, and graduate students to strengthen collaboration and community within the department.听
- Enhance academic and research capacity by听identifying听opportunities,听supports, and structures that promote high鈥�quality scholarly and practice鈥�based research.听
Plenary: Addressing Persistent Physical Symptoms
1.听Recognise听the challenge posed by persistent physical symptoms to conventional models of disease and illness.
2.听Review the emerging science of persistent symptoms.
3.听Identify听ways in which communication about persistent symptoms influences patients鈥� experiences听
4.听Outline the REAL approach to dealing with persistent physical symptoms in family practice听
Workshops Session 1
Engaging our patients听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to outline engagement techniques for improving health outcomes within the 91黑料网 clinical network.听
Infections & antibiotics听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to听identify听various strategies for听optimal听antibiotic use within the 91黑料网 clinical network.听
Health care services & trajectories听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to describe services and trajectories of care within the 91黑料网 clinical network.听
Workshops Session 2
Healthcare records & services听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to听identify听ways to optimize care and treatments available to patients within the 91黑料网 clinical network.听
Health of older adults听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to outline tools and interventions that can be used to promote healthy aging.听
Guidelines听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to describe important patient indicators in guidelines and the importance of clinicians' following guidelines for clinical outcomes.听
Workshops Session 3
Pain and loss听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to explain the impact of chronic pain and loss on听patients'听lived experience and clinical outcomes.听
Research听methods and medical education听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to听enumerate听different processes to improve research and medical interventions in medical education.听
Mental Health and Community Services听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to describe interventions or services targeted toward specific populations (immigrants, smokers, mental health).听
Workshops Session 4
Technology and networks听听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to outline the use of different technologies in improving health outcomes for the Qu茅bec and Canadian populations.听
Health of young people听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to explain a variety of听particular health听needs of the adolescent and young adult population.听
Integrating Core Principles of Family Medicine听
By the end of this session, participants will be able to apply foundational family medicine principles such as continuity, comprehensiveness, person鈥�centred care, and collaboration to a variety of clinical and academic contexts.听
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Agenda
| TIME听 | PROGRAM | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 7.30听am听 | Breakfast and check-in | Mezzanine |
| 8.30 am | Welcome and Plenary | Symposia Theatre |
| 9.30 am -听10.30 am | Workshops Session 1: | 听 |
| 听 |
Engaging our patients Co-design and contextualization of cultural safety in long-term residential services for Inuit with reduced autonomy in Nunavik:听 Natalia Reinoso Ch谩vez (Graduate Student) ---------------------- Participatory dementia prevention: narratives of change shed light on mechanisms of potential impact:听 Anne Cockcroft, Full Professor at the Department of Family Medicine (Research) ---------------------- A Breath of Fresh Air: Advancing Green Inhaler Use in Healthcare:听 Diana Gueorguieva, Firas Mubaid, Albert Shalmiev (Residents-Lakeshore) |
Salon Cartier II |
| 听 |
Research methods and medical education Improving Residents鈥� Management of Patients Presenting with Chronic Pain:听 Jamie Halperin, Cl茅mence Noiseux, Megan Eva (Residents-Mednam) ---------------------- An Approach to Ensuring Community Responsive Training in Family Medicine:听 Keith Todd, Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine (PBRN) ---------------------- Why are you here: Improving the Reason for Consultation:听 Nicholas Karabatsos, Zachary Shulman, Charles-David Dubois, Francesco Pisegna, Jan-Louis Henning (Residents-Jewish General Hospital) |
Salon International I |
| 听 |
Mental Health and Community Services Implementation of the South Asian Diabetes Prevention Program: Preliminary Findings from a Qualitative Case Study:听 Aravind Raj (Graduate Student) ---------------------- Bureaucracy: Chronic Pain, and Poverty: Disability-Related Income Support as Structural Violence:听 Kathleen Rice, Associate Professor at the Department of Family Medicine (Research) ---------------------- Weighing Our Options: A Quality Improvement Study of Obesity Management in Primary Care:听 Gabrielle Osana, and Christina Khoury (Residents-Metro) |
Salon International II |
| 10.30 am |
Coffee/ Poster Session 1 |
Salon Cartier I |
| 11.30 am -听12.15 pm |
Workshops Session 2: |
听 |
| 听 |
Healthcare records & services Optimisation du taux de d茅pistage du cancer du col de l鈥檜t茅rus par VPH:听 Laurie St. Onge, Kathryn McCracken (Residents- Vaudreuil) ---------------------- Models and Enactment of Gender-Affirming Care in Family Medicine:听 Joshua Ramos (Graduate Student) ---------------------- Closed Loop? Analysis of CRDS specialist report returns to CLSC Cote des Neiges:听 Sarah Daraj Mohamed, Manal Illoul, Estelle Tran (Residents- Cote-DesNeiges) |
Salon Cartier II |
| 听 |
Health of older adults Understanding Quality of Life in Dementia: A Qualitative Exploration of People Living with Dementia and Care Partners:听 Marwa Ilali (Graduate Student) ---------------------- Absence of annual contacts with family physicians among community-dwelling people with dementia: Predictions and implications:听 Deniz Cetin-Sahin and Hao Zhang (Research) ---------------------- AAA screening in primary care academic centers:听 Ameer Attiya, Leila Adibmehr, David Adem, Thomas Forlini, Armin-Shahin Safai-Naini (Residents-Jewish General Hospital) |
Salon International I |
| 听 |
Guidelines Mise en 艙uvre des lignes directrices 2025 d鈥橦ypertension Canada en soins primaires : une 茅tude d鈥檃m茅lioration de la qualit茅:听 Pierre-Marc Dion, Katherine Desrosiers, Christine Paquette-Cannalonga (Residents-Gatineau) ---------------------- How Willing Are Clinicians To Incorporate Shared Decision Making? :听Roland Grad, Associate Professor at the Department of Family Medicine (PBRN). Screening for MASLD-related liver fibrosis in primary care:听Tian Ren Chu, Houda Fquihi et Jennifer Ruskey (Residents-Parc Extension) |
Salon International II |
| 12.15听pm |
Lunch |
Foyer 3 |
| 1.30 pm -听2.30 pm | Workshops Session 3: | 听 |
| 听 |
Infections and Antibiotics Healthcare Coverage and HIV Care Continuum Outcomes Among Newly Registered Patients at the Chronic Viral Illness Service (CVIS), 91黑料网 Health Centre (MUHC):听 Kathy Nodzynski (Graduate Student) ---------------------- The Pandemic pREparedness engaging Primary cARe and Emergency Departments (PREPARED) Study: A Quebec Update:听 Machelle Wilchesky, Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine (PBRN) ---------------------- Fake News: Penicillin Allergy Stratification and Delabeling:听 Ying Chen, Jenny Wang, Ioana Ruxandra Zamfir (Resident-St.Mary's) |
Salon Cartier II |
| 听 |
Pain and Loss Pain free, harm free: exploring and optimizing hip fracture analgesia in the ER:听 Angie Salomon, Sophie-Andr茅e Vinet, Juliette Begin (Resident-FM Emergency Medicine) ---------------------- Material Deprivation and its Sociodemographic and Clinical Correlates Among Treatment-Na茂ve Migrants with HIV Receiving Free ART: The ASAP Cohort:听 Moustafa Laymouna (Graduate Student) ---------------------- Hearing the voices of bereaved caregivers by improving end-of-life care at home using community-based participatory research: A project update:听 Karin Fink (PBRN) |
Salon International I |
| 听 |
Health of young people L'utilisation des Bronchodilatateurs dans la PEC des bronchiolites chez les enfants 0-2 ans 脿 l'H么pital et au GMF de la Vall茅e-de-l'Or:听 Hadia Rehailia (Resident- Val d'Or) ---------------------- Towards a humanistic health system for refugees and asylum seekers? Developing a clinical practice sensitive to diversity among family medicine residents: mapping and pilot reflective groups:听 Charlotte Serrano (PBRN) ---------------------- Am茅lioration de la documentation des plans d鈥檃ction pour le traitement de l鈥檃sthme p茅diatrique:听 Anne Sophie Plate, Yasmine Moussaid, Maia Michaud (Residents-Chateauguay) |
Salon International II |
| 2.30 pm | Coffee/ Poster Session 2 | Salon Cartier I |
| 3 pm - 4pm | Workshops Session 4: | 听 |
| 听 |
Technology and networks Ofys Hours Are Over: Getting patients online with SOFY (EMR) portal:听 Browyn Monty, Cedric Kafie, Sana Al Najjari (Residents- Queen Elizabeth) ---------------------- Family Physicians鈥� Acceptance and Training Needs of AI-enabled Tools for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Prediction in Women:听 Diaa Chalati (Graduate Student) ---------------------- When Digital Tools Burden Care: Reframing Primary Care Technology through Evidence and Co-Design:听 Neb Kovacina and Marwa Ilali (PBRN) |
Salon Cartier II |
| 听 |
Health care services & trajectories Les prises en charge des ITSS au GMF-U et 脿 l'urgence de Val-d'Or: 脡valuer la qualit茅 du d茅pistage de la chlamydia et de la gonorrh茅e en soins primaires:听 Trang Pham听(R茅sident- Val d'Or) ---------------------- Improving information transfer practice between hospitals and primary care for older adults:听 Dimitri Yang and Martina Alkot (Research) ---------------------- A Single World Intervention Simulation approach for informing equitable health policy:听 Nia Kang (Graduate Student) |
Salon International I |
| 听 |
Integrating Core Principles of Family Medicine Sunny Side Up: A Recipe for Sun Safety:听 Sofianne Gabrielli, Mihai Mesko, Kayla Wong (Resident-St.Mary's) ---------------------- Experimental studies testing interventions to promote cultural safety, interculturality or antiracism in healthcare: a systematic review:听 Ivan Sarmiento (Research) ---------------------- Lived Experiences of Dementia Care Access and Navigation Among First-Generation Chinese Immigrants in Quebec: A Qualitative Descriptive Study:听 Winda Hao (Graduate Student) |
Salon International II |
| 4 pm | Conclusion and Plenary | Symposia Theatre |
| 4.30 pm | Cocktail | Salon International Foyer |
