PAIRO award booklet2011

PAIRO

Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Ontario

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May 6, 2011Toronto, Ontario

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AWARDS

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882

PAIRO AwardsPAIRO Residency Program Excellence Award .......................................................................................... 4Lois H. Ross Resident Advocate Award ........................................................................................................ 6PAIRO Excellence in Clinical Teaching Awards (CTA) .......................................................................... 8

PAIRO Trust Fund AwardsCitizenship Award for Medical Students .....................................................................................................16Resident Teaching Awards ....................................................................................................................................24

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Residency Program Excellence AwardThe PAIRO Residency Program Excellence Award was created in order to recognize those programs that have consistently provided an exceptionally positive and rewarding experience to their residents, while producing physicians who are expertly trained to deal with the chal-lenges in their upcoming careers.

The 2010 Winner is the Internal Medicine Department at McMaster University.

Residents provided these comments in their nomination submission:"The internal medicine program at McMaster University places a strong emphasis on rich educational experiences and intertwines teaching through every facet of the cur-riculum. Innovative retreats on CanMED roles, "How to be an SMR", “Evidence Based Medicine”, and "End of Life Care" complements a well designed academic half-day curriculum. Importantly, informal quality day-to-day teaching runs through the veins of the program with everything from informal Royal College scenarios to exploration of landmark literature and quite frankly everything between".

"Residents are routinely treated as colleagues and thus work to meet the high expecta-tions of their mentors. Staff Members routinely go out of their way in staying late to teach, provide counselling regarding career goals and personal goals without hesitation".

"One of the strongest advocates for resident well-being is Dr. Wasi, our program director. She genuinely cares for all residents and ensures that they are not only competent in their medical knowledge but also in maintaining a healthy balance with their personal life She is certainly my role model and is the main reason why I came to train at McMaster for IM."

The McMaster Internal Medicine Program website states, "Residents play a pivot-al role in helping the faculty to continue to improve and vitalize the Program. Their opinions are highly valued. We depend on resident involvement to keep the Pro-gram evolving and to maintain high morale and pride amongst all the residents.

The Internal Medicine program at McMaster University has been nominated each year since 2006 by residents for the PAIRO Program Excellence Award.

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Lois H. Ross Resident Advocate Award

The Lois H. Ross Resident Advocate Award is named in honour of a former PAIRO Ex-ecutive Director who worked tirelessly for many years to improve the lives of residents in Ontario. This award is given to one individual in the province who has consistently advocated on behalf of residents and resident issues, within the role of administrator, teacher or clinician.

The 2010 Winner is:

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Dr. Andrée Gruslin, Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyUniversity of Ottawa.

Dr. Andrée Gruslin obtained her medical degree from the University of Ottawa in 1989. She then interned at the University of Western Ontario and completed her Residency Training in Obstetrics/Gynecology in Ottawa in 1994. This was followed by Fellow-ship Training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine in San Diego, California in 1996. She was ap-pointed as faculty member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1996 and since then has focused on research while also spending a significant portion of her time in medical education. Currently, she is the Associate Professor – GFT of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is just finishing her five year term as Director of the Post Graduate residency training Program in OBS-GYN. Her involvement in medi-cal education has also been significant. She has been a member of the residency training committee and of the post graduate research committee. She has also been an examiner at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and also serves as a Royal College Exam-iner. In 2002, she was appointed as Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship program direc-tor and therefore chair of the fellowship training committee. Since 2005, she has been the Director of the OBS-GYN residency training program at the University of Ottawa.

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Excellence in Clinical Teaching Awards (CTA)

The objective of the PAIRO Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award is to publicly acknowledge the essential role that good clinical teachers play in the training of new physicians. Residents are asked to outline the qualities that make their nominee an excellent teacher including: positive role modeling, quality of bed-side teaching, and interest in trainees' personal development and well-being. PAIRO has presented these awards since 1983 and they are well recognized as a high standard of achievement.

There are up to seven awards presented yearly: two for Toronto (due to its size) and one for each of the other five Ontario medical schools: University of Ot-tawa, University of Western Ontario, McMaster University, Queen's University and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

The 2010 Winners are:

McMaster UniversityJames BainDivision of Plastic Surgery

Dr. James Bain is an Associate Professor with the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery at McMaster University.

Northern Ontario School of MedicineSante J. (Sam) Fratesi, MD

Division of Vascular Surgery

Dr. Sam Fratesi was born and raised in the city of Sault Ste. Marie. He graduated from Medical School at the University of Western Ontario in London where he also complet-ed his general surgery residency. Dr. Fratesi was one of the first to complete a formal training program in Vascular Surgery at the University of Ottawa. He received a Mas-ters degree in Medical Education from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Dr. Fratesi’s major research and teaching focus is on wound care, particularly as it affects the foot in diabetes. He has been affiliated with NOSM since 2004.

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Queen’s UniversityChristopher A. Smith, BSc. MBBS FRCPC FACPDepartment of Internal Medicine

Dr. Christopher Smith graduated from Medical School at University of London and worked in the UK for several years before leaving for the United States. He completed his Residency Training in Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago, fol-lowed by Chief Resident at the same institution. Dr. Smith then went to Cook County Hospital, a large public hospital in Chicago for a Fellowship in General Internal Medi-cine before starting there as faculty. He practised for over ten years at County Hospital where he developed an interest in medical education. Dr. Smith served as Associate Program Director for eight years before being recruited in 2008 to Queen's University as the Program Director for the Core Internal Medicine Program.

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University of OttawaMichael D. O'Connor, MD FRCSCDepartment of Ophthalmology

Dr. Michael O’Connor completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Queen’s University before completing his residency training in Ophthalmology in Ottawa. He went on to do a fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He returned to the University of Ot-tawa in 2007, where he now divides his time as a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and a comprehensive adult ophthalmolo-gist at the University of Ottawa Eye Institute. He is deeply involved in both medical student and resident education, with particular interests in teaching clinical skills and in using simulation for resident surgical training.

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University of TorontoRob Silver, MD FRCPC FACPDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Dr. Rob Silver is an academic Endocrinologist who is based at the Toronto Western Hospital division of the University Health Network, an affiliated teaching hospital of the University of Toronto. He is a Professor of Medicine within the University of Toronto Department of Medicine. His major academic interest is in education at all levels, including Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education, with specific interests in methods of evaluation and the creation of new and novel approaches to interactive learning. Throughout his career, he has served on more than 20 different medical education committees. Among his estimated 1000 hours per year of dedicated teaching, his favorite activity over the past 25 years has been a weekly interactive problem-based learning session with his Endocrinology hous-estaff entitled “Coffee, Crumpets and Questions”. For his contributions to medical education, Dr. Silver has been honored with more than 20 teaching awards.

University of TorontoGyl Midroni, MD, FRCPC

Division of Neurology

Dr. Gyl Midroni graduated from University of Toronto medical school in 1990, completing his specialty training in Neurology in Toronto in 1994. Following a fel-lowship at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Midroni returned to St. Michael’s Hospital in 1996 to become director of the department of Clinical Neurophysiology. Since his arrival, resident education in neurophysiology and neuromuscular disease through a series of structured electives, didactic lectures and patient-centred teaching activities has been his primary academic endeavour, with the focus on 1 on 1 or very small group teaching as the favoured means of imparting the art and science of clinical medi-cine to the next generation.

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Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western OntarioCorey C. Moore MD MSc FRCSC FACSDepartment of Otolaryngology

Dr. Corey Moore is Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Post Graduate Program Director, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Moore is also cross-appointed in the departments of Oncology and Anatomy and Cell Biology. Dr. Moore is the current president of the Canadian Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

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The PAIRO Trust Fund was established in 1985. The mandate of the Trust is to administer funds for the welfare of internes and residents in the broadest sense and for the purpose of providing benefits for internes and residents and their families and beneficiaries. The PAIRO Trust Fund supports the Citizenship Awards for Medical Students as well as the Resident Teaching Awards.

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Citizenship Awards for Medical StudentsThe Citizenship award recognizes medical students who, in addition to maintaining an ade-quate academic standing, have made a significant contribution towards improving the general welfare of fellow medical students. Successful candidates have demonstrated creative, inno-vative leadership in one or more of the areas: curriculum development; student well-being; faculty liaison; and community involvement.

The Winners for 2011 are:

McMaster UniversityNaheed Dosani

Naheed’s contributions at the national stage led to his invitation as a plenary speaker at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education. There he utilized his experiences as a student leader and research findings to inform Canadian medical school faculty and undergraduate deans about common misconceptions involving the “Hidden Curriculum” and its impact on medical education outcomes. He has been instrumental in organizing, developing, creating and implementing many activities including the implementation of a new communications strategy. Naheed has contributed to curriculum development and represented the opinions of stu-dents on various committees and focus groups. He also serves as part of the found-ing team of Altitude: Healthcare Mentoring, a project of the Ontario Medical Asso-ciation aimed at empowering students from low social-economic backgrounds and rural communities to aspire to a career in healthcare.

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Northern Ontario School of MedicineZachary Veitch

Zachary is a third year medical student at NOSM and has been the President of the NOSM Student Society for the past two years. He has worked hard to create a posi-tive learning environment for his peers and is always keen to assist other students. In part his efforts have helped the NOSM Student Society to be the 2011 host of the Ontario Medical Student Weekend. Zachary has been at the forefront in encourag-ing his peers to participate in the NOSM experience whether it is through taking on roles within the Student Society or in participating in interest groups. In this connection he was the primary organizer of “Music Medicine and Mocha” which successfully resulted in a donation to the Sudbury Regional Cancer Centre. He has taken on active roles with the 2009 and 2010 Orientation Weeks, NOSM’s Summer Science Camp, the Laptop Focus Group, the Mobile Device Collaboration Group and the Surgical Interest Group.

Queen’s UniversityVighnesh Bharath

Vighnesh is a third year student who throughout his career at Queen’s has dem-onstrated an elevated level of leadership and a genuine passion toward student involvement in medical politics. He has served as a Curriculum Representative, co-led the Internal Medicine Interest Group and has been nominated to the Profes-sionalism Committee. Vighnesh was the innovator of many new class initiatives; one being the creation of a ‘practice exam bank’ created by students for the pur-pose of review during exam time. He has also been involved in fundraising for the Queen’s Medicine Team for Run for the Cure and was involved with his class vol-unteering at Martha’s Table.

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University of TorontoSagar Dugani

Sagar has a long-standing history of excellence in various domains of student life.He has developed several community programs and co-founded IMAGINE, Cana-da's first student-run health clinic with a comprehensive approach to addressing health needs of marginalized populations. In addition to community outreach, Sagar has served as Chief Co-Editor of the UTMJ, and currently is the only stu-dent on the prestigious CMAJ Editorial Board. He also served as Chief Co-Editor of Toronto Notes 2009 as well as a Reviewer for several international journals. At the national level, he led a committee that established a Trainee Section in the journal Clinical and Investigative Medicine and served as a representative on Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada. Apart from these, Sagar has been involved in various aspects of student government: he served on the Academic Appeals Committee at the Faculty of Medicine; Student Affairs Liaison Team; and currently as MD/PhD Class co-President, forums that allowed for stu-dent advocacy related to academic fairness, student health and wellbeing, and the student experience.

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University of TorontoMathew Leonardi

Mathew has tirelessly served the Faculty as a key student leader, diligently work-ing as Co-Class President for the past three years. This included a variety of re-sponsibilities such as coordinating events and administrative meetings, with a key goal of advocating on behalf of his classmates. He is a very effective and effi-cient leader and this is why he has been elected and re-elected for this position for three consecutive years. Over the past year he has worked extensively in the area of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual health care and medical education. He took on a lead role co-chairing Diversity in Medicine that included organizing a series of lunchtime talks focusing on LGBT health issues. Under DIM, Mathew and his team also established a preclerkship elective entitled the LGBT Health Elective for first and second year students. Responses from students were outstanding and they hope to expand upon this elective in the current academic year. Along with a classmate, he also worked on improving core curriculum in this area and this effort is ongoing.

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University of OttawaAndrew Boozary

Andrew has demonstrated his commitment to his peers, the faculty and his commu-nity. His leadership role commenced in his first year when representing his class-mates, Andrew entered discussions with the administration, resulting in a major change to the evaluative system at the undergraduate level. Students are now graded in a Pass/Fail manner, as opposed to Pass/Fail/Honours. In his capacity of Aescu-lapian Society President, Andrew’s priority is student well being. While addressing issues ranging from Orientation Week activities to the new Industry Relations Policy, he goes beyond expectations in representing his peers. Finally, Andrew spearheaded a community initiative, which is coming to fruition. The MIGHT clinic is a student-run community health centre serving those without regular access to healthcare.

University of Western OntarioPatricia Uniac

Always unselfishly helping others, Patricia is not only a big sister to a first year stu-dent; she always spends time driving the carless students around. She fulfills a big role not only acting as the class’s friend, but also a mom and a sister, addressing the personal concerns and problems of students. Students feel comfortable in ap-proaching her, as they know that anything that is discussed will remain confiden-tial. Needless to say, she is a very active member of the mentorship group project. Patricia has a very strong interest in the nutrition group as well, teaching other students how to cook. Patricia also ran study groups in first and third years.

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Resident Teaching AwardsThe Resident Teaching Awards honour residents who have provide outstanding clinical teaching experiences to junior housestaff and clinical clerks. This award is given to one resident at each centre with the exception of Toronto which due to its size has two recipients. Each university nominates and selects its own winner.

The 2011 Winners are:

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McMaster UniversityJessica Collins, MD

PGY 4, Plastic Surgery

Jessica creates a very friendly atmosphere and makes clerks unafraid of asking any kind of question. Always smiling and approachable, Jessica frequently took the time to explain relevant knowledge in a clear and concise manner appropriate to our level. In one instance, she stayed behind following a long microsurgery pro-cedure to explain to the clerks watching, the principles of microsurgery and ves-sel suturing and the relevant information regarding the procedure that was used. Jessica has been involved in suturing skills course teaching and most recently de-veloped a senior resident lecture series for junior residents and medical students leading to a website launch this year. Jessica has also served as a representative to the Division of Plastic Surgery Education Committee and Department of Surgery Residency Education Committee, and participates as an interviewer on the CaRMS Plastic Surgery Residency Admission Committee.

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Northern Ontario School of MedicineAdam Moir, MDPGY2, Family Medicine

Adam is the charter class recipient of the NOSM Student Citizenship Award, an annual award voted on by students that recognized a student on each campus who has made a positive contribution to the lives of their classmates. He had also served as a Charter Class member of the Undergraduate Medical Education Com-mittee with NOSM, helping to debate, reshape and finalize much of the curriculum for the medical school in its inaugural year. In his first year of residency he served as resident nominee on the NOSM Board of Directors. This past academic year he has served as a member of the resident program committee, family medicine aca-demics committee, conducting monthly resident education committee meetings. He has worked tirelessly as an advocate for resident interests within both the post-graduate program and administration.

Queen’s UniversityRussell Lam, MD

PGY 3, Paediatrics

Russell is viewed as a passionate and excellent teacher, who proves to be a role model to many of his junior colleagues. His teaching and mentoring of junior staff occurs in formal settings of morning or grand rounds and also informal settings such as while working alongside each other, after a shift or over lunch. He has been know to go out of his way during each and every call shift to provide at least one formal teaching session. Russell also shows great care and concern for the more junior members of his team, providing much advice and mentorship ranging from such topics as life as a resident, to research, to strategies for success in the residency matching process. His program director mentions him as going beyond expectations in formulating written guidelines for residents.

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University of OttawaMark Preston, MDPGY 5, Urology

While many residents develop the skills and have the innate generosity to become excellent bedside teachers, Mark has moved way beyond this level during his residency. He has been most generous with his time throughout the undergradu-ate medical education curriculum in both skills teaching and OSCE assessments. Moreover, he has had the vision to help all learners interested in his specialty of urology by developing a web resource of educational tools as well as a large inter-active question back for exam preparation for all urology residents. The only re-ward in that is the satisfaction of helping others and in this, Mark holds true to his vocation as a physician.

University of TorontoNikola Grujich, MD

PGY 5, Psychiatry

Nikola is credited with being an outstanding resident teacher, mentor and role model in the Department of Psychiatry. Last year, he was the recipient of three awards including the prestigious Department of Psychiatry Resident Teacher of the Year Award. His teaching skills are natural and innate yet he strives to constantly im-prove upon his ability. Residents have commended him with having a teaching style that is engaging, participatory and infectious including having the ability to tailor questions and subject matter to the different levels of knowledge of his audience.

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University of TorontoMichel Shamy, MDPGY 5, Adult Neurology

As the Chief Resident of the Neurology training program at the University of Toron-to, Michel has shown a profound dedication to resident education and has played an integral part in improving the academic half-day. He has also revitalized the curriculum by incorporating resident feedback as well as modifying the formal of the Internal Medicine in Neurology segment and included new lectures and topics. Michel is also credited with being an excellent teacher in his own right, giving sev-eral lectures a year and filling in for other residents. His lectures are always well received, clear, concise and practical. Noted as an excellent role model and educa-tor to junior colleagues by his peers, he has inspired medical students to pursue a career in Neurology.

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Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, UWOLeigh Sowerby, MD

PGY 5, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Leigh was thought of as a most deserving candidate for the Resident Teaching Award at the Schulich School of Medicine. He has won the departmental award for teaching during his residency and is thought of as being a contender to repeat it once again. Leigh has proven to be a leader in education and truly enjoys teaching both medical students and junior residents. He is seen teaching in the operating room, clinic and in weekly rounds. Leigh is currently in his last year of resident training at Western and will be off to complete a one year fellowship – all will be sad to see him go.