PGY-1 Connect Care training

First year residents complete a variety of clinical rotations, such as cardiology, emergency medicine, surgery, etc.

Summarized below is the suggested path to complete your Connect Care basic training and how to supplement that training when moving to a different clinical rotation. 

Complete Basic Training

If your first clinical block is not Surgery or Emergency Medicine:

• Complete the basic training for either Inpatient Medicine, or Pediatrics. 

• Once you pass the associated EUPA your access to Connect Care will be enabled overnight

• Sign up for a Review & Personalization sessions

If your first clinical block is Surgery:

• Complete Surgery basic training

If your first clinical block is Emergency Medicine:

• Complete Emergency Medicine basic training 

Before starting an Emergency Medicine clinical rotation

The interface for Emergency Medicine is significantly different from inpatient and ambulatory functions.

• Before starting an emergency medicine rotation please:

• You can also use this Emergency Medicine exercise book to practice workflows

• login to PLY with username: EDMD## (where ## is any number from 01 to 19) and pwd: train

Other Clinical Rotations

You can return to this training portal anytime to review training information for other clinical rotations using information found at Training for Clinical Rotations.

Basic Training for Inpatient Medicine

The course you need to complete is titled Epic - Inpatient Admitting - Independent Learning

This course should be listed in MyLearningLink under Required Courses, if required you can find and register for the course using these steps:

To register for this course on MyLearningLink:

• Navigate to MyLearningLink with your AHS username and password

• Use the Courses & Registrations link and search for "independent learning"

• Click the course titled Epic - CMIO Inpatient  Independent Learning

• Register for the course

• Complete this course while simultaneously logged in to the Connect Care training environment, see information below

Accessing the training version of Connect Care

• Navigate to https://myapps.albertahealthservices.ca

• Open the Connect Care folder, then the Training  folder, launch ACE5 or PLY

• Login as IP## (where ## is any number from 01 to 19)

• password: train

End User Proficiency Assessment (EUPA)

Before gaining access to Connect Care, all trainees must complete a short competency assessment, the End User Proficiency Assessment (EUPA). This is done after basic (in-person) training.

• The EUPA can be found in MyLearningLink, listed with Required Courses

• Complete the EUPA titled Epic - CMIO Inpatient Admitting Inpatient Only EUPA

• Access will be automatically granted (usually overnight) once you have passed the EUPA and completed On Our Best Behaviours privacy training

• When completing your EUPA it is recommended that you login to the Connect Care training environment.

AHS Privacy - On Our Best Behaviors

Everyone at AHS has to complete the mandatory Annual Continuing Education Privacy and Information Security training module on MyLearningLink: InfoCare – On Our Best Behaviors.

• Your access to Connect Care will not be enabled without completing this course.

• Complete the course by navigating to https://mylearninglink.albertahealthservices.ca

• Look in “My Courses” or search by title and register to complete it.