Past Webinars

Using a case-based approach, join us to discuss the risks/benefits and clinical pearls to using automated pancreas systems in type 1 diabetes and pregnancy.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review risks/benefits of automated pancreas in pregnancy

2. Discuss how to use important insulin pump features in pregnancy

Learning Objectives

1. Describe burden of young-onset type 2 diabetes

2. Define type 2 diabetes remission

3. Review evidence demonstrating type 2 diabetes remission

4. Introduce RESET for T2D Remission trial and ways to participate

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) and the evidence for its use

2. Apply an approach to reading the CGM report’s Ambulatory Glucose Profile

3. Provide opportunities for CGM research engagement

Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults in Primary Care

Learning Objectives: 

1. Review diagnostic criteria for asthma

2. Summarize the guidelines for management of chronic asthma

3. Recognise if a referral is appropriate

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify when patients need lung function testing for suspected lung diseases including Asthma & COPD

2. Recognize which lung test to order to accurately diagnose suspected lung disease and apply the results

3. Describe when a specialist referral is warranted

4. Collaborate with PCN teams to identify resources and opportunities to optimize care for patients with chronic lung disease

Webinar 2: Asthma Gone Wild

Learning Objectives:

1. Review of what defines adequate Asthma Control

2. Identify the barriers to achieving Asthma Control

3. Understand the definition of Severe Asthma

4. Provide an update on the role and benefits of Biologic Medicines in Severe Asthma

Webinar 1: Asthma Management in 2021

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide an update on current trends in Asthma Care

2. Describe the basic principles in the approach to patients with asthma

3. Review the updated CTS Guidelines on the management of Mild and Moderate Asthma

Targeted Screening and Management of COPD in Primary Care

Learning Objectives:

1. Review diagnostic criteria and risk assessment for COPD

2. Summarize the new recommendations in the 2023 Canadian Thoracic  Society COPD pharmacotherapy guidelines

3. Select a comprehensive approach of COPD management

How to Help Your Patients Quit Smoking

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the concept of readiness for change and how to assess readiness

2. Explore best practices that match different levels of readiness

3. Review evidence-based strategies to help your patients quit smoking

Session 1: Updates to Pediatric Concussion Care: The Living Guideline for Pediatric Concussion Care

Session 2: Concussion Diagnosis and Management: Utilizing the Concussion Awareness Training Tool (CATT)

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand what a concussion is and how it is caused

2. Understand the clinical features of concussion for both the pediatric and adult populations

3. Understand the diagnosis process for concussion, including appropriate assessment tools

4. Understand the role of concussion management

Session 3: When Symptoms Do Not Resolve: What Are Our Options for Patients With Concussive Symptoms?

Improving Concussion Awareness and Recognition in the Community; Implications for Physicians

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the Living Guideline and understand how clinical recommendations are kept up to date

2. Identify the major updates to clinical care from 2022-2023

Session 1: Beyond DSM: Individualized Medicine & Integrated Care

Learning Objectives:

1. Apply a wellness-based model for the treatment of depression and anxiety that incorporates both evidence-based principles of care and treatment algorithms

2. Develop an individualized treatment plan by assessing objective, subjective, and relational factors contributing to the illness and its resolution

Session 2: Working as a Community Team: A Case-Based Approach

Learning Objectives:

1. Implement a systemic approach to psychopathology within an interdisciplinary team environment that both supports and empowers the patient as an intentional agent

2. Explore quality improvement initiatives to facilitate mental health support in the community

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the potential of Type 2 Diabetes remission

2. Understand how to categorize Type 2 Diabetes into 5 subtypes and how they relate to remission potential

3. Introduce the concept of the "Lifestyle Discussion" that physicians should be having with their patients living with diabetes

What’s the truth about ketogenic diets? Learn about this popular way of eating for individuals at risk of diabetes and the research underway at the University of Alberta.

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate an approach to screening and classification for the high-risk diabetic foot

2. Assess a foot ulcer in a diabetic patient and elect appropriate initial management

3. Select appropriate footwear and community resources for foot ulcer prevention

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand current state and burden of prediabetes in Alberta

2. Learn about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-recognized virtual Diabetes Prevention Program now freely available in Alberta

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore the usefulness and nuances in ordering lab and Xray tests to assess puberty and adrenarche in children

2. Discuss which tests guide management in pediatric thyroid conditions

3. Discuss common errors and misperceptions in ordering hormone tests for pediatric patients

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about the prevalence and impact of food insecurity in Alberta

2. Understand how food insecurity affects individuals living with diabetes

3. Recognize healthy food prescriptions as a potential avenue for addressing food insecurity

4. Learn about an Alberta initiative providing food prescriptions that may be relevant for your patients

Learning Objectives

1. Describe burden of young-onset type 2 diabetes

2. Define type 2 diabetes remission

3. Review evidence demonstrating type 2 diabetes remission

4. Introduce RESET for T2D Remission trial and ways to participate

Learning Objectives

1. Briefly review the clinical features, epidemiology and pathophysiology of DKA in the pediatric population

2. Describe the demographics of patients 0-18 hospitalized with DKA in Alberta between 2014-2018

Webinar 1: Nutrition and Diabetes Management - Let’s Not Sugar Coat It

No one diet fits all people with diabetes. In this webinar, the speakers will

cover the principles of good nutrition for people with diabetes.

Webinar 3: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

A review of the latest evidence around managing patients who have diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Webinar 2: Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease

A review of the latest evidence around managing patients who have diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

Webinar 4: Deprescribing Insulin and Other Medication Adjustments

With the introduction of newer agents that have good benefits, do

patients need to be on insulin and if they are already on insulin, can we

deprescribe? If so, what are the practical principles to guide deprescribing

of insulin?

Session 1: Navigating Household Food Insecurity in Primary Care: A Nutrition Guideline

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain why household food insecurity is important to patients, community and clinics

2. Describe how the AHS Nutrition Guidelines can support your work with patients experiencing food insecurity

Session 2: Strengthening Foundations for Patients Facing Household Food Insecurity: Experience of a Primary Care Clinic

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize the key enablers for clinics as they shift their practice and patient conversations towards addressing food insecurity

2. Discuss the importance of community connections in helping our patients address household food insecurity

3. Identify the resources, training and tools available as you work as a team

Session 1: Screening for Hepatitis C Virus in Primary Care

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) can cause severe liver disease including cancer if untreated. Highly effective and simple HCV treatments are available to cure HCV, yet individuals in Alberta continue to die every year from HCV-associated liver disease. You will learn how to shift gears with your HCV management, from identification of those at risk through post-cure follow-up.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify populations that should be screened based on risk factors

2. Describe the risks and recommendations about screening in primary care

3. Interpret the screening test results and inform patients appropriately

Session 2: Managing and Referral in Primary Care

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) can cause severe liver disease including cancer if untreated. Highly effective and simple HCV treatments are available to cure HCV, yet individuals in Alberta continue to die every year from HCV-associated liver disease. You will learn how to shift gears with your HCV management, from identification of those at risk through post-cure follow-up.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Determine why and when a referral is needed, and where patients should be referred

2. Discuss treatment basics and follow-up plan with your patient

3. Recognize patients who require more intensive follow-up

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the rationale for optimizing blood pressure in adults with diabetes

• Report current clinical gaps in addressing hypertension in adults with diabetes

• Review best practices for measuring and managing hypertension in adults with diabetes

• Connect with your PCN quality improvement supports to improve your hypertension management in diabetes

Session 1: Screening and Assessment

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify obesity as a chronic disease

2. Identify patients living with obesity in need of intervention

3. Perform comprehensive obesity assessments that identify root causes and care priorities

Session 2: A Collaborative Approach to Management & Therapeutic Options

Learning Objectives:

1. Support patients to understand how their comorbidities and personal context are related to their obesity management

2. Select therapeutic approaches (lifestyle, medication, surgery, behavioural) to help patients develop personalized plans

3. Apply the 5As of Obesity Management in interdisciplinary team care

Session 1: No Denial, No Delay – Adopting a Standardized Approach for Postpartum Hemorrhage Identification and Management in Alberta

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate the need for collaborative action toward the management of PPH

2. Understand why and how to treat anaemia and B12 deficiency in pregnancy

3. Highlight the value of a standardized approach toward PPH management and the new AHS Interprofessional PPH Toolkit

4. Promote Objective Quantification of Blood loss for all patients

5. Understand medication recommendations for treatment of PPH

Session 2: No Denial, No Delay - Management of Severe Postpartum Hemorrhage

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate the impact of delayed recognition and inadequate response

2. Highlight the role of the interprofessional team in PPH management – Anaesthesia and transfusion medicine – MABL, MHP

3. Understand advanced PPH management techniques

Session 3: Panel Discussion: Putting It All Together - Perspectives on Postpartum Hemorrhage

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the patient experience of PPH & recovery, PTSD & obstetrical trauma

2. Learn the Midwifery perspective of PPH Toolkit

3. Discuss a Successful Toolkit implementation – at a rural Alberta site lessons of PPH from a systems perspective