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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the importance of preserving reproductive rights in women's health.
  • Identify and defend gender issues in medicine.
  • Gain skills in leadership and emotional intelligence whilst minimizing burnout.
  • Recognize the importance of empowering medical learners by creating space for important conversation.
  • Summarize the impact on health disparities in equity deserving groups.

Presentation Title Presentation Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Clinical Pearls: Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice
Payal Agarwal, BASc, MD, CFPC
  • Identify opportunities for using AI tools in clinical practice
  • Identify risks of using AI in clinical practice
  • Identify credible resources for learning more about AI in clinical practice
Mentorship / Early Career Leadership
Najma Ahmed MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS
  • Discuss the difference between mentorship and allyship
  • Employ various leadership styles
  • Demonstrate leadership as service, and service as leadership
Supporting Women in Leadership Roles
Elisabeth Baerg Hall, MD, CCFP, FRCPC
  • Discuss Challenges Faced by Women in Leadership
  • Outline Key Approaches to Support and Build Resilience in Ourselves and Others
Is this as good as it gets?
 Marie Claire Bourque, MD, BSc, MSc, FRCPC, DABPN
  • Recognize common challenges to physician wellness.
  • Challenge decision making based on cognitive distortions
  • Reflect on what matters most to you and how that can guide your wellness choices
Building a medical school with Health Access at its core
Teresa Chan, MD
  • Articulate the key steps for using futurist thinking to plan for inclusion
  • Highlight the key linkage between at School of
Medicine serving a community and improving access in an equitable fashion
Lessons Not Taught: The Wellbeing Connection to Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Shelly Dev, MD, FRCPC
  • Define what is meant by ‘emotional intelligence’ and ‘wellbeing’;
  • Describe the ways in which they overlap;
  • Consider the impact of emotionally intelligent leadership on the emotional culture of the medical workplace.
Patient-focused: Maternal Mortality in Black Women
Marjorie Dixon, MD, FRCSC, FACOG, REI, OB-GYN
  • Relate the historical basis for existing systemic racism
  • Discuss the genetic and health bases for intergenerational trauma and social determinants of health
  • Interpet data demonstrating the problem of disparity of access and outcomes for black women globally
  • Describe proposed solutions for black women moving forward
Canadian, North American & the World’s Reproductive Rights: Where Do We Stand?
Diane Francoeur, MD, FRCSC, MHCM, ICD.D
  • Discuss the state of sexual and reproductive rights in the world
  • Position Canada in relation to North America: are we moving forward or backwards?
  • Share solutions to demonstrate that women physicians in Canada can make a difference.
Telemedicine For Abortion Care in the US
Cheryl Hamlin, MD, MPH, OB/GYN
  • Describe the political climate in the US
  • Discuss the use of shield laws
  • Prescribe medication abortion in person, via telemedicine and assist with self managed abortion
Patient-Focused: Why does team-based primary care matter? Through the lens of a family physician in an indigenous community
Ojistoh Horn, MD, MSc, BSc, CCFP
  • Describe how primary care differs in indigenous communities
  • To illustrate the strength of team-based care
  • To propose upstream changes to health
Real Talk / Learners’ Corner
Dalia Karol, MD
  • Identify common challenges faced by women in medical training
  • Share practical strategies for professional success and self-advocacy
  • Promote mentorship and allyship among peers and seniors
  • Foster resilience and work-life integration skills
  • Encourage open dialogue about gender equity in medicine
Clinical Pearls: Bone Health
Aliya Khan, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACE, FASBMR
  • Discuss how to evaluate fracture risk
  • Discuss how to exclude secondary causes of osteoporosis
  • Describe how to treat osteoporosis in 2025
Real Talk / Learners’ Corner
Maria Leis, MD
  • Identify common challenges faced by women in medical training
  • Share practical strategies for professional success and self-advocacy
  • Promote mentorship and allyship among peers and seniors
  • Foster resilience and work-life integration skills
  • Encourage open dialogue about gender equity in medicine
Real Talk / Learners’ Corner
Odessa McKenna
  • Identify common challenges faced by women in medical training
  • Share practical strategies for professional success and self-advocacy
  • Promote mentorship and allyship among peers and seniors
  • Foster resilience and work-life integration skills
  • Encourage open dialogue about gender equity in medicine
Clincial Pearls: Breast and Bowel Cancer Screening
Fahima Osman, MD, MPH, FRCSC
  • Summarize OBSP Updates
  • Discuss Recommendations for High Risk patients
  • Discuss Recommendations for Supplemental Imaging
Clinical Pearls: Sexual Desire & Menopause
Taylor Roebotham, MD, FRCSC, IF
  • Describe the components of the female sexual response cycle and how they relate to sexual function.
  • Discuss mechanisms by which hormonal and other midlife changes can impact sexual desire.
  • Develop an initial approach to treatment of low desire, integrating a biopsychosocial perspective.
Empowered Leadership - Nourishing Our Narratives as Women Leaders
Saroo Sharda, MBChB, MMEd, FRCPC
  • Explore the power of personal and collective narratives to recognize how stories shape identity, define values, and create connection
  • Examine how story-telling and narrative methods enhance and strengthen leadership skills
  • Engage in being story-tellers and story-listeners through guided prompts, to articulate personal leadership values
Building a culture of support for Dr. Mom
Andrea Simpson, MD, MSc, FRCSC
  • Discuss the reasons for and consequences of reproductive delay for women physicians
  • Discuss barriers to adequate pregnancy accommodations and parental leave among physicians at all career stages
  • Discuss the importance of supporting physicians who are parents in the context of the health human resource crisis in Canada
Clinical Pearls: Obesity Management
Sean Wharton, MD, PharmD
  • Summarize the pathophysiology of obesity
  • Discuss medical interventions for obesity management
  • Recognize the concerns of bias and stigma in obesity medicine.

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