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This year the inter-professional General Internal Medicine (GIM) Symposium will be held on Wednesday, October 14, 2009. The University Health Network is hosting the one-day event. The Symposium is intended to celebrate the diversity of a healthcare environment in which patients receive care for multifaceted illnesses. As a result of this complexity, a broad knowledge base shared among every member of the health care team is necessary to provide safe, efficient and patient-centred care.
The theme of the Symposium revolves around inter-professional collaboration in GIM. Evidence-based practices are promoted in this learning environment. This year’s main focus is on presentations that highlight new innovations in practice with invited speakers from various disciplines. There will be an examination of the role that health care providers contribute in enhancing patient safety. Other presentations will promote advanced understanding and implementation of effective support strategies across the continuum of primary to end of life care. The Symposium will conclude with an inter-disciplinary panel discussion of the geriatric population that will demonstrate communication and collaborative learning.
This is the second year of a proposed annual initiative. The expectation is that with each year the content of the Symposium will build on the transference of knowledge to clinical practice as it expands in size, scope and locality of attendees. It will contribute in highlighting the complex diversity to practice in GIM. It will aid to provide the foundation for an inter-professional exchange that will lead to safer healthcare, increased patient and healthcare satisfaction and improved resource utilization.
