The 2006-2010 Research Catalogue is now online. Questions and comments can be sent to Suzie Officer (suzie.officer@dal.ca).
FHP Academic All-Canadians 2011
Dalhousie will honour their top student athletes at the upcoming 13th annual Academic All-Canadian Luncheon. They will be recognized in the presence of peers, professors and parents for their accomplishments. According to standards set by Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), to qualify as an academic all-Canadian, students must maintain a GPA of 80 percent or better over the academic year while competing in a varsity sport.
Congratulations to the following students from the Faculty of Health Professions who have achieved this honour:
School of Health and Human Performance
- Cassandra Banfield (BSc HPRO)
- Maxwell Burt (BSc KINE)
- Louis DeMello (BSc KINE)
- Cara Groves (BSc KINE)
- Amanda Henry (BSc HPRO)
- Graeme Higgins (BSc KINE)
- Emma Landry (BSc KINE)
- Jocelyn LeBlanc (BSc KINE)
- Benjamin MacAskill (BSc KINE)
- Travis MacLean (BSc KINE)
- Elizabeth Matheson (BSc KINE)
- Martin McKend (BSc KINE)
- Brett Plouffe (BSc KINE)
- William Sandeson (BSc KINE)
- Jilayna Stigter (BSc KINE)
- Rebecca Sweet (BSc Recreation)
- Andrea Vanderlaan (BSc KINE)
- Alexander Veit (BSc KINE)
- Brooklynn Winch (BSc HPRO)
School of Nursing
- Lyndsey LeBlanc
- Hannah Walker
College of Pharmacy
- Benoit Gervais
- Sean Higgins
Support the United Way
United Way Co-chairs Peter Dykhuis and Gail Dechman
The United Way supports more than 50 community organizations in the HRM. Many are health focused initatives – organizations such as Veith House, the Learning Disabilities Association of Nova Scotia, the Halifax Sexual Health Centre and many others depend on United Way Funding. In the last 10 years, fewer and fewer of members of the Dalhousie community have donated to the United Way. In 2010, only 14% of employees gave to the campaign. This year, the aim is to increase the participation rate to 20% with a financial goal of $200,000. With your help, this is absolutely achieveable. In fact, if everyone contributed just $3 per month via payroll deduction, we would reach the $200,000 goal. Help us show that the Faculty of Health Professions supports the United Way, it’s not too late to go online and make your donation. Visit the Dalhousie United Way website to learn more.
ACEWH introduces new Sex and Gender-Based Analysis E-Learning Resource
The Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (ACEWH) extends an invitation for the introduction of their new SGBA e-learning resource on November 23, from 2:30 to 5:30 at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia in Halifax. The online resource is open to the public at www.sgba-resource.ca For more information, visit the ACEWH website.
Call for Nominations – FHP Teaching Excellence Award
The call for nominations for this year’s FHP Teaching Excellence Awards has now been released. For further information, please see below (click on image to view larger) or consult the FHP Website.
Collaborative Learning in Long-Term Care
Members of the IP student team deliver their final presentation at Maplestone.
In 2010, Shannex and Dalhousie University joined to create the first academic nursing home in Atlantic Canada. Through collaboration among health professionals, researchers, educators, learners, clients and their families, the Maplestone Collaborative Learning Centre (CLC) seeks to enhance the preparation of new health professionals for collaborative practice in long term care and to identify and address current issues in long term care policy and practice.
Located at Maplestone Enhanced Care, an 87-bed Shannex facility in Halifax, the Collaborative Learning Centre was made possible through formal partnership agreements with Dalhousie’s Department of Family Medicine and Faculty of Health Professions, both signed in 2010. The Family Medicine partnership involves academic attending physicians and first year Family Medicine residents who provide ongoing medical care to all Maplestone clients. The Health Professions partnership has integrated researchers, educators and learners from professions with established roles in long term care (LTC) in Nova Scotia (such as nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy and social work) and those with developing roles in this sector (such as audiology, nurse practitioner and speech language pathology).
Together, CLC partners have created an interprofessional learning environment for all health professions that will lead a positive change in attitude and culture towards LTC and care of the elderly and set the standard for client-directed, collaborative care by:
- enhancing client care and service delivery;
- fostering greater interest in and understanding of practice in LTC;
- equipping participants with the competencies necessary for interprofessional collaboration; and
- contributing to the continuing care and education sectors through the development and integration of relevant research opportunities.
To date, over 160 learners from 12 professions have completed rotations through the CLC and there hae been two structured interprofessional education (IPE) placements. Currently, a team development grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is supporting the identification of collaborative research priorities.
Feedback from learners, Maplestone clients, families and staff to date has been overwhelmingly positive: “There’s so much overlap between the professions that we’ve learned that to work independently isn’t really beneficial…that if we work as a collaborative team we can actually be more beneficial and effective for the client’s care.” Faculty of Health Professions Student, 2011.
By:
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Anne Godden-Webster, Interprofessional Experience Coordinator, Faculty of Health Professions
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Vonda Hayes, Professor and Education Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine
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Althea Lacas, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
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Catherine MacPherson, Project Manager, Collaborative Learning Centre, Maplestone Enhanced Care
First Year Student Event
The Faculties of Health Professions, Medicine, Dentistry and Science (Clinical Psychology) are once again this year hosting a special interprofessional education event for all incoming first year students – nearly 1000 in number – in all entry to practice programs. It will be held in the Rebecca Cohn Theatre on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm (registration begins at 4:30).
This year’s event will feature Paul Tingley, a Halifax native and highly accomplished Paralympic sailor with a 2.4-metre solo keelboat championship in the Netherlands in 2010 – only the fourth in 20 years for a disabled sailor – and a gold medal at the Summer Paralympics in China in 2008. Paul, along with his coach Colin Guthrie and his physiotherapist Judy Lugar, will talk about the nature of interdisciplinary teamwork in both the health and sports worlds.
Invitations will be sent to all first year entry-to-practice students in early September. Because of the importance of the concepts of interprofessional collaboration and patient/client/family-centred care, students are required and expected to attend and participate. There will also be a limited number of tickets for non-student attendees from the associated faculties. If you would like a ticket, please email fhp@dal.ca to be added to the guest list.
Please mark the date and time on your calendars. To learn more about Paul, read the recent profile that appeared in the Chronicle Herald.
Aboriginal Health and Healing
- Dr. Debbie Martin (Nick Pearce photo)
Starting this Fall, Dr. Debbie Martin (School of Health and Human Performance) will be teaching the course “IPHE 2201 – Introduction to Aboriginal Peoples’ Health and Healing.” The course, open to all undergraduate students in the Faculty of Health Professions, will provide an opportunity to learn about Aboriginal perspectives regarding health, as well as about the multiple and complex challenges facing Aboriginal peoples with respect to key health issues such as; health and social inequities, the epidemiology of disease and culturally appropriate service provision.
In a recent Global Martimes interview, Dr. Martin said that one aim of the course is to help students look at health issues from an indigenous perspective, and to provide health care with that angle in mind, further stating, “There are different ways of approaching health and health care that we don’t often think about.”
Inter-Professional Health Care Education Building
- An artist’s rendering of the new building
A new building planned for Dalhousie’s Carleton campus aims to be common ground for students from the Faculties of Dentistry, Medicine and the Health Professions—a place where an aspiring nurse, social worker and dental hygienist could get together for coffee; where a future physician, occupational therapist and pharmacist could work on a simulated medical emergency; where a would-be coach, radiological technologist, dentist and cardiologist could meet and attend a lecture.
In so doing, the deans of those three faculties believe the building—and the focus it will bring to inter-professional learning—has the power to revolutionize health-care education at Dalhousie.
To learn more, read the DalNews story.
In the News: Health Mentors Project
Jay Hartman-Berrier and Tiffany Connors - participants in the Health Mentors Project. (Danny Abriel photo)
The Health Mentors Project was featured in the latest issue of Dalhousie Magazine (page 15).