Monday-Thursday:

• N.E. (Main) Door: 0700-1900 (Public Access)

• N.W. Doors: 0700-1600 (Public Access) / 16:00 - 21:00 (ONEcard Access Only)

• South-Ground Level Entrance: 07:00 - 16:00

• L.R.T. Pedway: 0700-1600 (ONEcard Access Only)

• Medical Sciences to ECHA Pedway: 07:00 - 16:00 (Public Access) / After 16:00 (ONEcard Access Only)

Friday:

• N.E. (Main) Door: 0700-1900 (Public Access)

• N.W. and South-Ground Level Entrance: 07:00 - 16:00 (Public Access)

• L.R.T. Pedway: 0700-1600 (ONEcard Access Only)

• Medical Sciences to ECHA Pedway: 07:00 - 16:00 (Public Access) / After 16:00 (ONEcard Access Only)

Weekends:

• N.E. (Main) Door: 08:00 - 10:00 (ONEcard Access Only) / 10:00 - 17:00 (Public Access)

• N.W. Entrance: 08:00 - 17:00 (ONEcard Access Only)

• South LRT Pedway: 08:00 - 17:00 (ONEcard Access Only)

• Medical Sciences to ECHA Pedway: (ONEcard Access Only)

• Holidays: Closed

Elevator and stairwell access to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors requires ONEcard authorization. Of note: If you take the elevator, you must swipe your card for access. 

If you know your UofA ONEcard is not set up with swipe access and require it to be activated, send a request via  this Google Form link. Please ensure you have double checked your card by swiping it by a card lock reader into the department prior to sending the request.

The John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre Presentation: 

"Its y Body and I'll Cry if I Want To: Balancing Adolscent Autonomy and Protection in Ontario's Health Care System. 

THURSDAY, 16 October 2025

12:00 - 13:00 MDT

Online via Zoom

PRE-REGISTRATION required:
After registering, you will receive an immediate confirmation email containing information about joining the event or adding it to your calendar. Please use the link within the automated email to join the event. Registration is welcome anytime. 

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The Kipnes Academy, based in the College of Health Sciences, will be situated in the newly renamed Dianne and Irving Kipnes Health Research Academy building, formerly known as the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy.

Using AI Safely at AHS: Wondering what sort of generative AI is available and approved for use at AHS?

Watch this video for info plus demos of Copilot functions clinicians may find useful!

IT also has 1-hour sessions on Copilot coming up in early October for anyone wanting to know more, as well as an FAQ and Quick Start Guide."

In addition, the Stollery Center for Excellence in Virtual Health continues to work on clinical applications of AI. 

Core 12 leading inpatient team or Core 14a (teaching) or Core 14b (feedback) are great EPAs for Junior Residents to complete or attach narratives to providing written feedback for Senior Residents. Senior Residents can also send this to their students and junior trainees for completion.

As a reminder this should reflect feedback conversations that have occurred. This can also be used in teaching dossiers and education portfolios as prompts for reflection. 

Please reach out to the program if you have further questions.

Just a quick reminder that all R2's who have done 2 weeks of Green and 2 weeks of triage are eligible to complete their 3 buddy shifts. These shifts need to be completed prior to entering our R3 year in order to accomindate call coverage. As a point of clarification, swapping junior and senior roles is only allowed for the third buddy shift (where on a scheduled call shift, you and the scheduled senior can decide to switch roles in order to complete your third and final buddy shift). Prior to this, please ensure you complete you buddy shifts as the 4th resident on call (ie: 2 scheduled juniors, 1 scheduled senior and 1 buddy).  

Please join us for a virtual department research meeting on Monday, October 6, 2025 from 12-1PM!

The Pediatrics Research Forum is a quarterly event open to all department faculty members, staff and learners. Attend to ask questions, connect with your colleagues, and learn about research-related activities, ongoing and planned.

On October 6, we will have a presentation from the Research Partner Network on an overview and usage of the Researcher Home Page. The Researcher Home Page is an online grant management tool that allows researchers to submit requests for new research projects and amendments, track project spending and commitments, and run financial reports, among other things. This session should be especially valuable for new researchers, junior faculty members, and anyone unfamiliar with the Researcher Home Page.

Please email pedsr@ualberta.ca if there are any items you wish to add to the agenda, and please RSVP by clicking the link below:

RSVP HERE

Early Bird Registration Open for 2025 Black Physician of Canada conference 

Join a community of Black physicians, physicians-in-training and Black healthcare professionals at the 2025 Black Physicians of Canada national conference on October 24 to 26, 2025 at the Westin Castle Harbour Hotel in Toronto. 

This year’s theme is Stronger Together, drawing on BPC’s new 2025-2030 strategic plan. Be a part of an inspiring weekend of connection, community and celebration. Here’s a video highlighting the success of our 2023 inaugural conference - https://youtu.be/61zeHjJDCf0?si=tdH50Fvyr83wsHsL.  

Early bird registration ends on Friday, September 5 with special rates for residents and medical learners. Don’t forget to book your hotel accommodations, which ends on September 25. 

Register today! - https://site.pheedloop.com/event/bpcconference/home. If you have any questions, contact us at info@blackphysicians.ca. 

While this may be very far down your calendar, we have confirmed our date for the 2025 fall retreat. This year, it will take place Nov 5-7th in Canmore. To try and get ahead of accommodation costs, we are starting to reserve this for our group. Therefore, we are starting an RSVP form now HERE! It will be open until July 25th . Reminder, our retreat is mandatory unless you are on vacation, elective, or approved leave of absence - otherwise you will be put on call!  

Please use this link to register for the Nov 13/14th conference, and the call for abstracts can be found here! 

For R2-R4s - NICU cross shifts at RAH/GNH. Choose a shift w/o learners from Block 3, and email Abid Rizvi AND Melissa for the GNH or just Melissa Meaver for the RAH.

• • Complete this Google Doc  after each NICU Cross Cover Shift. Melissa facilitates call stipends - shifts must be confirmed with her. 

We are very happy to see how well-utilized the trainee touchdown areas have become—it’s great!

A few friendly reminders below that will help keep our shared spaces tidy, professional, and respectful for everyone.

• Protect sensitive information – Please do not walk away from a workstation with patient or other sensitive information visible on the screen. It only takes a second to minimize the screen or lock the computer if you need to step away.

• Proper waste disposal – The garbage receptacles at each station are small, so please take larger items to the kitchenettes for disposal. Do not put garbage in the blue recycling bins.

• Recycling guidelines – The blue recycling bins at each station are for paper recycling only. Please avoid placing beverage containers—especially those with dairy products—in these bins.

Reminder that when you are missing time from a rotation, whether a full day or not, please email the following people so all are aware and can support you with the time away while also ensuring appropriate staffing:

• • PDs AND PAs (Jess, Anna and the genpeds@ualberta.ca email)

  • The rotation administrator

  • The rotation education coordinator (e.g. Dr. Krystina Ediger, kediger@ualberta.ca, on NICU) 

  • Your staff/the team you are working with for the day 

  • The Peds Leads

NICU Absences Process Reminders: Please review the NICU absence policies as outlined below to ensure proper procedures are followed when away on a relevant NICU rotation: 

• • MIS and GNH sites: if for any reason you are unable to attend work it is your responsibility to notify: your preceptor/clinical team, the NPM Rotation Coordinator, Dr. Sylvie Cormier (sylvie2@ualberta.ca), GenPeds Administrators (genpeds@ualberta.ca), Abid Rizvi and Melissa Meaver know that you will be absent.

• • RAH and UAH sites: if for any reason you are unable to attend work it is your responsibility to notify: your preceptor/clinical team, the NPM Rotation Coordinator, Dr. Sylvie Cormier (sylvie2@ualberta.ca), GenPeds Administrators (genpeds@ualberta.ca), and Melissa Meaver know that you will be absent.

Viral Symptom Policy: Wondering when you should not attend work (/activate back-up?) check the AHS policy here!

Back up Call Reminder: Back-up is for sudden illness < 48h, if you are sick and going to miss a shift >48h you must find a trade.

Dr. Martin Gauthier is looking for a senior resident with an interest in mental health, health advocacy, patient education or knowledge translation to help with creating mental health information package(s) and website(s) targeted to families on eating disorders, personality disorders, cannabis use, self harm, gender identity/dysphoria and learning disabilities (also open to other ideas). If interested please contact Dr. Gauthier at martin.gauthier@gmail.com for more information! 

Are you interested in doing more research during your pediatric residency? and/or a career as a clinical scientist? If so consider applying to the TRIP program (Trainee Researcher in Pediatrics) 

Just a reminder from Dr. Forbes: "Whenever possible, we ask that you try to complete the EPAs in the moment, or at the latest at the end of the day with the learners, so that the feedback is timely. We are seeing that EPAs that are saved often "expire" before they are completed by the preceptor, and some students are having difficulty obtaining the required number, as well as are missing out on receiving the associated feedback." Here's a little EPA video for your enjoyment.  

The general pediatric program now has an official Instagram account! Go give "uofapeds" a follow and watch for exciting content about how wonderful our program and resident group is!   

At the end of each block the Leads tally all of the call shifts worked through the month on the CTU call schedule (both Peds residents and off service residents) and submit these to PARA. Call stipends are paid out once a month as per the attached schedule (eg: Block 1 call stipends will be paid August 24th). We also submit the call stipends for residents who cover call while on electives or away on rural community rotations. At the end of each block we send an email to those residents who are on electives or rural community rotations with a calendar to fill out your shifts! 

If you have any questions or concerns, give the leads a shout! 

This is just a reminder that the Peds Call rooms are to be shared during the daytime between residents. We would suggest that the priority for these rooms goes to those who actively have patient care meetings and other zoom meetings. If you have a meeting, feel free to close the door but we would suggest if you are using the room as a quiet place to chart, you leave the door open for other residents to be able to join (especially the rooms with multiple desks - 2 residents can quietly work together). If you are not in the room (ie. on the wards doing patient care), we would ask that you leave the door open so another resident can use the room as well (you can leave your stuff there, but it does not mean that you have exclusive claim to that room). There are work stations available in ECHA if you need as well, and the lounge has a capacity of 10 people (which other than at lunchtime and handovers, it usually does not come close to exceeding) for other work spaces. A reminder that the ultimate priority of these rooms is to the overnight team; please vacate the room asap when they arrive prior to 5pm and give them time to remove their things post-call.   

As we continue to look at how CBME changes our processes, and look to foster a culture of mutual support and growth, we have been talking to the PDs about how we can facilitate feedback and documentation of feedback between seniors and juniors (in BOTH directions). The narrative forms on CBME are a great space to capture this feedback. Whether it's a quick one sentence "great job managing a very acute ward tonight!" or suggestions on areas for improvement, we would encourage you to look at your processes on call and find opportunities to use these forms. (Possibly triggering the form at the start of the shift and then taking two quick minutes at the end of a shift to talk about it together). We are excited to continue learning and growing with you all!  

We had a meaningful discussion at RPC about evaluations and wanted to share a couple of points with the resident body:

• • For CBD learners on CTU rotations: it is recommended that a CanMEDS Longitudinal Assessment (CLA) form be sent to your staff at the end of each week (in addition to other EPAs). The narrative comments are immensely helpful in evaluating our growth as we progress in the rotation.

  • Faculty evaluations by residents: Along the theme of providing feedback, a gentle reminder that any comments we place in AHD evaluations or preceptor evaluations go directly to that preceptor in addition to being unfiltered into teaching dossiers that are used for faculty evaluation/promotion. Jess’ statement, “words matter,” resonated with the group. We discussed taking a moment to read the feedback provided and reflect on whether it reflects a growth mindset and the culture we support in our program.

  • EPAs: The intention of EPAs is for growth over time with constructive and timely feedback, so receiving a "2 or 3" should still prompt constructive feedback with a growth mindset. Residents are encouraged to trigger EPAs both on things that go well and on areas for growth. Discussions on how to best facilitate this while ensuring adequate learning opportunities for progression are occuring at the staff level.

We have had some programs identify that sometimes EPAs are being submitted which contain too much detail in the "Context Information" text box.  These EPAs have identifying patient information and therefore pose concerns regarding safety of patient health information.  Ensure that there is not detailed or potentially identifying patient information included in submitted EPAs.  Residents should not enter identifying patient information, and if faculty note too much detail in EPAs reviewed by them, they should de-identify it. The included context information should only be enough to remind the resident and faculty of the encounter. 

Please consider going through this anti-racism e-class module at your own pace. It is highly recommended by the EDI Committee Staff (Drs. Ladha and Evered) and a great resource!   

Additionally, please take 3 minutes to read this powerful piece by Dr. Samina Ali in Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine about her experience of racism in our emergency department. 

We all play a role in creating an antiracist environment. 

For access to Language Line phone interpretation in 240 languages, please dial 844-909-3655. This is a direct line for the Stollery, so it will take you directly to the language selector with no need to enter the six-digit client ID. The language selector is being updated to reflect the most used languages at your site, so you will now hear “press 1 for Arabic, press 2 for Punjabi, press 3 for other”. Telus is having technical issues with the old number and we don’t have a timeframe for when this will be fixed.