Date: Friday, September 22, 2023
Time: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Women’s College Hospital, (Auditorium) 76 Grenville St, Toronto, ON
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This event has been approved for 7.5 Mainpro+ credits from the CFPC
The Refugee Primer will provide clinicians with practical skills to address the unique needs of newly arrived refugees to Canada. This one-day conference will allow clinicians to identify common and serious health challenges that confront their refugee patients and describe an approach to management of these conditions. It will also help clinicians identify resources to address the existing resource gaps that arise in the care of refugee populations. The Primer will provide opportunities for health care providers to participate in and join existing networks of refugee-serving clinicians.
We believe that the sharing of this knowledge will address systemic and structural health inequities faced by refugees. C2.3 Embrace a community-serving mindset in the curriculum that pays special attention to health equity in considering population health outcomes and social &structural determinants of health, including training in patient and system advocacy.
A collaboration between the University of Toronto, Department of Family & Community Medicine & Women’s College Hospital, Women’s College Hospital
Program
| 7:30-8:00 | Registration | |
| 8:00-8:15 | Welcome, Goals, Introductions | Meb Rashid, MD Melanie Henry, MD Danielle Martin, MD Heather McPherson, MD |
| 8:15-8:45 | Overview of Refugee Migration | Meb Rashid, MD |
| 8:45-9:15 | The Refugee Experience | Rebecca Saburi |
| 9:15-10:00 | Failure to Thrive in Refugee Children | Shazeen Suleman, MD, MPH |
| 10:00-10:15 | BREAK | |
| 10:15-11:15 | Refugee Mental Health | Clare Pain, MD |
| 11:15-12:00 | Parasitic Infections in Refugees | Isaac Bogoch, MD, MPH |
| 12:00-1:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:00-1:45 | Tuberculosis | Kamran Khan, MD |
| 1:45-2:30 | Hepatitis B & C | Jordan Feld, MD, MPH |
| 2:30-3:15 | Health Policy & Advocacy | Steven Meagher Ellen Tang, MSW, RSW Vanessa Wright, RN, EC |
| 3:15-3:30 | BREAK | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Interim Federal Health Insurance & System Navigation | Semhar Musael |
| 4:00-4:45 | Women’s Health | Praseedha Janakiram, MD Rachel Spitzer, MD, FRCS(C), MPH |
| 4:45-5:00 | Closing Remarks | Meb Rashid, MD Melanie Henry, MD |
Questions, please contact anna.loi@utoronto.ca.