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CME & PD
Our PCN is here to help strengthen your practice so you can focus more on patient care.
Our CME & PD program supports physicians with free educational opportunities in four priority areas — practice support, community services, transitions, and integration, Patient’s Medical Home, and primary care partnerships — so they can run effective and compliant practices.
We’ve listened to our members on the best way to enhance and support their practices with CME & PD offerings (go down to the archive). We will continue to listen and collaborate with our members now and into the future.
Organized by our PCN independently and in conjunction with the Calgary Zone, community partners, and our members, both Mainpro+ certified and non-certified event opportunities are available.
Please contact your Physician Liaison if you have a CME & PD topic suggestion in one of the priority areas.
No-show policy
The CWC PCN’s no-show policy applies to CME & PD events that are certified for Mainpro+ credits or have limited capacity.
Under the no-show policy, members who register and do not attend, or cancel their registration after the event’s withdrawal deadline, will:
- First occurrence: Receive a letter outlining the policy, the missed program, and the consequences of a second no-show within six months*
- Second occurrence: Receive notice that they are ineligible for events that meet the policy’s criteria for one year
*This sequence resets to zero occurrences if a member does not no-show a second event within six months or due to special circumstances.
We understand that circumstances can change quickly leading up to an event, and members may appeal a no-show occurrence.
CME & PD presentation archive
When possible, our PCN posts webinar recordings and any related resources from past CME & PD opportunities.
CME & PD: Physiotherapy Program | Nov. 19, 2024
Webinar:
Or jump to a topic of interest:
- Patient eligibility and exclusions in four minutes
- What happens when you send a referral in one minute
- GLA:D Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis program overview in six minutes
- One-on-one physiotherapy appointment overview in one minute
- Self-management stream overview in one minute
- Ineligible patients (external service referrals) in one minute
Reminder: Our Physiotherapy Program accepts referrals for patients:
- With general (non-acute) MSK conditions of the shoulder or osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee
- Without coverage by other health payers, financial means, or access to AHS-funded services
Language barriers: Our Physiotherapists have access to Translation Services, and our team works with the contracted providers to mitigate language barriers on a case-by-case basis.
CME & PD: Dietitian gut health webinar, To FODMAP or to FOD-NOT | Nov. 7, 2024
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Or jump to a topic of interest:
- Pillars of IBS management (nutrition, lifestyle, gut-brain connection, and medication) in two minutes
- Role of diet in IBS management (trigger foods and recommendations) in nine minutes
- Lifestyle and IBS (stress, CBT benefits, and physical activity) in five minutes
- The FODMAP diet (elimination, reintroduction, personalization, tools, and drawbacks) in eight minutes
- Supporting gut health (tips about fibre, probiotics, fermented foods, and prebiotics) in 10 minutes
- The gut-brain connection (vagus nerve and gut microbes and microbiome) in six minutes
- Questions and discussion (changing probiotics, leaky gut syndrome, SIBO, probiotic resource, and chronic constipation) in 16 minutes
CME & PD: CME Connect: Seniors and Driving | Oct. 22, 2024
Webinar:
Or jump to a topic of interest:
- Driving and the older adult presentation by Dr. Vivian Ewa (60 minutes)
- Age- and disease-related changes that can impact driving (six minutes)
- Assess fitness to drive (25 minutes)
- Assessment and driving cessation (23 minutes)
- The Calgary Seniors’ Resource Society presentation (25 minutes)
- Transportation programs (eight minutes)
- Non-transportation programs (two minutes)
- Eligibility, referrals, and wait lists (15 minutes)
- Questions and answers (six minutes)
Resources from the webinar:
- Driving in the older adult handout
- The society’s Essential Transportation Program referral toolkit
- The society’s Seniors Social Supports referral toolkit
CME & PD: Billing Rejections | April 17, 2024
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Or jump to the topic of interest:
- Helpful resources, contacts, and introductory tips for rejections
- Common explanatory codes
- Q&A
CME & PD: Streamlining Payroll | March 21, 2024
Webinar:
Or jump to a topic in the recording:
- Payroll apps that make payroll easier and how to select an app
- Changes to CPP (impact on payroll and T4s)
- Record of employment (tips for issuing)
- Income and T4s (types of earnings and T4 tips)
- Tips and tricks for payroll processing, overtime, vacation and statutory holidays, gifts and rewards, and group health benefit deductions
CME & PD: Billing | Feb. 21, 2024
Webinar:
Or jump to a topic in the recording:
- Key claims information
- Verifying coverage (and good faith claims)
- Submission deadlines
- Time-based services, immunizations, and encounters
- Virtual care
- Complex care and consultations
- Other visits and patient care (billing specifics for psychotherapy, admission to addiction facility, pre-op history and physical, palliative care, home visits, capacity determination, advice to pharmacist, phone advice, consultations, visits with procedures, etc.)
- Q&A
CME & PD: Quick CVD Risk Screening | Feb. 13, 2024
Webinar:
Or jump to a topic in the recording:
- Enhanced lipid reporting overview and benefits
- A family physician’s experience (how to implement, challenges, success, and how to use this change for PPIP)
- Implementation lessons from primary care and lab feedback
CME & PD: Prescription to Get Active | Jan. 18, 2024
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CME & PD: Access Appointment Service | Dec. 5, 2023
Community partner spotlight: Dementia Advice presentation | Oct. 25, 2023
CME & PD: CME Connect: Sex, Gender, and Dementia | Oct. 17, 2023
CME & PD: Alberta Lung Cancer Screening Program information session | Sept. 14, 2023
CME & PD: Social Workers | Sept. 13, 2023
Community partner spotlight: Seniors' Centre Without Walls presentation | June 21, 2023
CME & PD: EMR Series: Accuro Part Two | June 20, 2023
CME & PD: Senior Services | June 7, 2023
CME & PD: Transition Planning | May 4, 2023
CME & PD: CME Connect: Aging in Place | April 25, 2023
Community partner spotlight: AHS Advance Care Planning presentation | April 19, 2023
CME & PD: AMA Billing Seminar | April 19, 2023
CME & PD: Identifying Key Metrics for Streamlining Operations | March 23, 2023
CME & PD: Med Access Part Two | Feb. 22, 2023
Community partner spotlight: Calgary Silver Linings Foundation presentation | Feb. 15, 2023
CME & PD: Attract and Retain Physicians | Jan. 24, 2023
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Event resources:
- Presentation slides
- Physician job post template
- Recruitment resources to find physicians for your clinic:
CME & PD: CME Connect on Seniors Health | Nov. 29, 2022
CME & PD: Cloud Accounting Tools for Doctors | Oct. 26, 2022
CME & PD: Incorporation | Oct. 19, 2022
CME & PD: Tax Tips and Preparing for Personal Tax Season | Oct. 12, 2022
CME & PD: Financial Recovery | June 14, 2022
CME & PD: Physician Recruiting 101 | June 7, 2022
CME & PD: Accuro (EMR Series) | May 5, 2022
CME & PD: Billing Workshops Part 3: Reconciliations and Resubmissions and Unusual Claims Situations | May 5, 2022
CME & PD: Billing Workshops Part 2: Long-term Care (including assisted living), hospital in-patients, and emergency room | April 28, 2022
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CME & PD: Billing Workshops Part 1: Virtual Care Codes, In-person Visits, and Office-based Procedures | April 21, 2022
CME & PD: CME Connect on Supporting Pediatric Mental Health in Primary Care | April 13, 2022
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Resources referenced by the presenters:
- Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) questionnaire
- CanREACH patient-centred mental health in pediatric primary care program one-pager
- Catholic Family Services posters
- General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) questionnaire
- Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) document
- Pediatric Symptom Checklist PSC-17 Description document
- Pediatric mental health resources list
- Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Disorders (SCARED) parent version
- Mental health screening and evaluation tools flow chart
CME & PD: LGBTQ2S+ Basics: Creating Safer and More Welcoming Care | April 6, 2022
CME & PD: Stop Charting at Night | Feb. 23, 2022
CME & PD: Billing workshop part two | Oct. 26, 2021
CME & PD: Billing workshop part one | Sept. 14, 2021
Webinar:
- Recording is no longer available due to an issue with the file; please consult the presentation slides.
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CME & PD: CME Connect on non-opioid addiction |March 22, 2021
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CME & PD: Med Access (EMR series) | March 17, 2021
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Demonstration videos:
- How to access the help section and video library
- How to add filters to the Sidebar Chart Summary
- How to customize the Sidebar Chart Summary
- How to find templates and select favourites for faster access
- How to use the Visit Template demonstration (fictional patient with ILI symptoms)
- How to use Workflow Actions demonstration (fictional patient overdue for screening)
- How to activate and view an Clinical Decisions Support Alerts
- How to use Goals demonstration (example of flu vaccination and PHQ9 score)
- Case study showing how five of the EMR’s tools can support a physician during an appointment
CME & PD: HR Q&A |Dec. 10, 2020
CME & PD: Performance Management and Corrective Action | Nov. 18, 2020
CME & PD: Infection Prevention and Control Information Session | Nov. 9, 2020
CME & PD: Respectful Workplace | Nov. 4, 2020
CME & PD: Occupational Health and Safety: Alberta Employment Legislation | Oct. 21, 2020
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