Emergency Medicine Presentations

Decolonizing Healthcare in Indigenous Communities

Dr. Raven Dumont-Maurice is a member of the Algonquin nation of Kitigan Zibi, Quebec. She graduated McGill medicine in 2012 and completed her pediatric residency in 2016. She currently resides in Montreal and practices community pediatrics on the island of Montreal as well as in Kanehsatà:ke. She is the UGME Campus Outaouais Quebec First Nations and Inuits’ Health Content Expert at McGill’s satellite campus in Gatineau.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the healthcare system as a site of anti-Indigenous systemic racism, including by reviewing parts of the historical context of medical colonialism against Indigenous people in Canada
2. Illustrate the role that a dominant "culture" can play to normalize oppression in healthcare
3. Develop tools to work towards confronting medical colonialism and decolonizing healthcare

Emergency Approach to Pediatric Status Migrainosis

Dr. Diksic is an Assistant Professor and full time staff physician at the emergency of the Montreal Children's since 1999. She received her medical degree and residency training at McGill. She undertook specialty training at sick kids in Toronto. Her current interests are clinical protocol development and novel educational approaches.

Dr. Mirchi is a fourth-year child neurology resident at the Montreal Children’s Hospital in Montreal. After completing a Bachelor of Science in Anatomy and Cellular Biology at McGill University, she received her medical degree from Université de Montreal in 2019 and returned to McGill University to complete her residency training in Pediatric Neurology.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the recommended approach to defining and evaluating a headache and migraine headache in pediatric patients
2. Understand the different classes of medication used in acute migraine treatment in the emergency department
3. Understand the contraindications and possible adverse effects of these medications
4. Understand the algorithm for physician treatment of pediatric patients with migraine headache in the emergency department

The Mental Health Epidemic in Children

Dr. Greenfield is an Associate Professor of clinical psychiatry and pediatrics in the Division of Child Psychiatry at McGill University. He has participated in research into attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity and is currently investigating borderline personality disorder as it presents during adolescence. In his clinical practice, Dr. Greenfield directs the emergency psychiatry service at the Montreal Children's Hospital, and his administrative and teaching focus has been the coordination of the Faculty of Medicine's first year course, Physicianship 1.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know the predictors of ongoing depression at 4-year follow-up in previously suicidal adolescents
2. Know the predictors of Functioning at 4-year follow-up in previously suicidal adolescents
3. Know the implication of the above predictors with regard to adolescents with borderline personality disorder

Common Fracture Managed Without Casting

Dr. Vaillancourt is the Associate Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and incoming Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program.

Learning Objectives:

1. Manage common pediatric fractures
2. Have an approach to reading pediatric elbow radiographs
3. Know when to refer to an orthopedic surgeon for further management of pediatric fractures

The Use of Suboxone in the Emergency Room

Dr. Vanessa Pasztor is a Family Doctor at the Jewish General Hospital at the Herzl Clinic. Her clinical practise and interest is focused on Addiction Medicine. She is the Director of the Herzl Addiction Clinic. She also runs a Hepatitis C clinic for the IV drug using population at the Herzl. She is a teacher at the Herzl Clinic and spends time on the clinical teaching unit- Family Medicine Ward at the Jewish General Hospital.

Learning Objectives:

1. Familiarize yourself with the prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of an opioid use disorder
2. Be clear on the indications for using buprenorphine/naloxone
3. Be able to begin an induction for buprenorphine/naloxone
4. Be comfortable discussing harm reduction strategies in the ER for vulnerable patients

Intro to A.I. in the Emergency Department

Dr. Grant completed a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Harvard University in 2008 before embarking on a career in medicine. He subsequently obtained his medical degree from McGill University in 2011, completed his residency and certification in Emergency Medicine at McGill through the Canadian College of Family Physicians in 2014. He is an attending physician in the Jewish General Hospital Emergency Department and an Assistant Professor in the McGill Department of Emergency Medicine. His primary research focus is on the development, deployment and assessment of artificial intelligence tools in the emergency department. He currently serves as the Associate Chair for Research of the McGill Department of Emergency Medicine.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the Likely applications in the ED
2. Know the nomenclature: AI/ML/DL/NLP
3. Understand the AI BOOM
4. Understand Human/AI interaction in medicine