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Webinar: Effective Virtual Care

Presented by the Northern Ontario District of OPA

With Jocelyne Murdoch, OT Reg. (Ont.), ACPAC

Jocelyne is an import who moved to Sudbury from Kingston after graduating from Queen’s University’s Occupational Therapy Program. After trying different areas of practice (mental health, private practice and home care), she finally found her niche in arthritis care at The Arthritis Society in 2002 and completed the Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care program at the University of Toronto, the first graduating class of its kind. She now works as an advanced practice occupational therapist at The Arthritis Society and has been using telemedicine since 2008 to expand arthritis services in northeastern Ontario.

A lover of all things arthritis and technical, Jocelyne uses telemedicine on a daily basis to work with multiple rheumatologists, sees patients with arthritis across the northeast, and teaches both health providers and people with arthritis using telemedicine. She won the Arthritis Health Professionals Association’s inaugural Clinical Innovation award for her use of telemedicine to provide arthritis care. Jocelyne also teaches in Collège Boréal’s Occupational therapy and physiotherapy assistant program.

Agenda

  1. Getting started with telemedicine
  2. Tips and tricks when using telemedicine
  3. How to do a physical assessment
  4. Solving problems

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Clinical Practice Guideline

For the Rehabilitation of Adults with Moderate to Severe TBI – Updated August 2023

Check out major updates to the Canadian Clinical Practice Guideline for the Rehabilitation of Adults with Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). These updates are based on new research, and engagement of many clinicians, key partners, and persons with lived experience. Find best practice recommendations, resources and clinical tools that promote quality care, at the right time, from the right provider for people living with brain injury.


Hip Displacement and Surveillance for Children with Cerebral Palsy Webinar

Kim Hesketh, MScPT (Holland Bloorview Kids rehabilitation Hospital and Children’s Treatment Network) Chun Kim, B.Sc.PT.  (Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital), presents on this topic. Check out the slide deck.

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
  1. Understand the pathophysiology and consequences of hip displacement for children with CP
  2. Identify risk factors for hip displacement
  3. Understand the current evidence for hip surveillance and identify critical components of a hip surveillance program
  4. Explain the work being done related to hip surveillance for children with CP around the world, and in Ontario.

Webinar Slide Deck