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BC Medical Journal
Volume 49, Number
8, October 2007, page 448
WorkSafeBC
What's Up,
Doc? WorkSafeBC/UBC 8th Annual Conference
The joint WorkSafeBC/UBC Annual Physician Education
Conference, What’s Up, Doc?, will be held on Saturday, 8
December 2007, at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle
Downtown Hotel. It will offer a variety of plenary
sessions and small group workshops, as well as
practice-based small group learning, a physical
examination skills review for the office setting, and a
worksite assessment tour. This year, the conference will
include Mainpro-C workshops developed by the Foundation
for Medical Practice (other credits to be advised). A
complete spousal/family program will also be available.
The conference will cover a variety of topics relating
not only to diagnosis and treatment of patients with
work-related injuries and illnesses, but also to your
personal occupational well-being. Early registration is
recommended, as workshops and the worksite assessment
tour have limited space.
Plenary sessions
• Preventing Needless Disability and Helping Patients
Stay Employed—Jennifer Christian, MD, board-certified in
occupational medicine, with a master’s in public health,
chaired the American College of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine committee that developed the
recent landmark guideline of the same name.
• Problems/Pitfalls in Orthopaedic Office Practice:
Commonly Missed Diagnoses or How to Stay Out of
Court—Gerard McKenzie, MD, medical director of the
Ambulatory Surgical Clinic in Vancouver, member of the
International Association for the Study of Pain and the
Canadian Pain Society, assistant clinical professor in
the Department of Orthopaedics at UBC, and an instructor
at St. Paul’s Hospital.
• Physicians: Our Occupational Hazards and Surviving a
Career in Medicine—Paul Farnan, MB, BCh, CCFP, ASAM
Cert., former executive director of the Physician Health
Program of BC.
• Medical Legal Issues Pertaining to Return-to-Work: The
CMPA’s Perspective—Jacques Guilbert, MD, physician risk
manager, Risk Management Services, Canadian Medical
Protective Association, and an expert on medicolegal
issues.
Workshops
• Two practice-based small group learning (PBSG)
workshops, hosted by the Foundation for Medical Practice
Education and preapproved for two Mainpro-C credits:
Approaches to Low Back Pain and Work-Related Asthma.
Both workshops will be facilitated by Tanya Fairweather,
MD, CCFP, UBC Family Practice Centre, faculty
coordinator for the UBC Vancouver academic curriculum.
• Assessing the Dizzy Patient—Eytan David, MD, LMCC,
FRCSC, with a postgraduate residency at the University
of Western Ontario, Department of Otolaryngology, and
neurotology-skull base surgery fellowship from the
University of Toronto. He has been a clinical instructor
of temporal bone dissection courses at the University of
British Columbia, University of Toronto, and Wayne State
University, and is an expert speaker on topics such as
common and complicated causes of dizziness, vertigo, and
laryngeal trauma and inhalation injuries.
• Motivational Interviewing Techniques—Chris Dunn, PhD,
counseling psychologist and associate professor in
psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of
Washington School of Medicine; specializes in training
medical practitioners to use a brief version of
motivational interviewing to help patients manage
chronic illnesses.
• Opiates Rising: Prescribing for Chronic Non-Cancer
Pain—Launette Rieb, MD, FCPP, CSAM, ASAM, family
physician, addiction medicine specialist, clinical
assistant professor at UBC, as well as practitioner at a
community health centre, private methadone clinic, and
chronic pain clinic.
• Mitigating Disability: Negotiating Safe and Healthy
Return-to-Work Plans for Patients—co-facilitated by
WorkSafeBC nursing staff and Peter Rothfels, BEd, MD,
senior medical advisor at WorkSafeBC, and member of ASAM.
Worksite assessment
This year’s worksite assessment tour will be at the
Canada Post Processing Plant in downtown Vancouver and
will offer a chance to see what’s involved in sorting
and processing mail, potential exposures for RSI,
opportunities for job modifications, and other
return-to-work options.
Find out more
For more information on What’s Up, Doc?, the 8th Annual
WorkSafeBC Physician Education Conference, contact Ms
Christine Lynn at 604 276-3329 or toll free at 1 877
633-6233.
—Don Graham, MD, CCFP
WorkSafeBC Chief Medical Officer
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