Thanks to funding from Facility Engagement, the South Island MSA offers micro-grants to support physician-led, grassroots change in our facilities. Since 2014, physicians have been working with each other and with Island Health to make their workplace, relationships, and processes even better. Stories about completed projects are listed here, contact info@southislandmsa.ca for further project details.
| Title | Departments/Divisions | hf:tax:project_type | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | “Screenagers” – A Family Event | Emergency Medicine, Physician Wellness and Social Committee | emergency-medicine physician-wellness-and-social-committee |
 | A compassionate approach to detecting and treating skin cancer among the institutionalized elderly | Island Health, Medical Oncology | island-health medical-oncology |
 | Acupressure Workshop for Labour and Delivery Team | Family Practice, Maternity, Obstetrics | family-practice maternity obstetrics |
 | Addictions Medicine and Palliative Care | Addictions Medicine, Palliative Medicine | addictions-medicine palliative-medicine |
 | Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry Engagement and Outreach – Phase 2 | Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry | geriatric-psychiatry psychiatry |
 | Adult Psychiatry Services and Behavioural Supports in LTC | Long-Term Care, Psychiatry | long-term-care psychiatry |
| Bereavement and MAiD | Family Practice, Hospitalist Medicine | family-practice hospitalist-medicine |
 | Building a shared vision for a Bladder Care Clinic at Royal Jubilee Hospital | Gynecology, Obstetrics, Urology | gynecology obstetrics urology |
 | Cardiac Short Stay Improvements, and the importance of Change Management | Cardiology | cardiology |
| Cardiogenic Shock Team | Cardiology | cardiology |
 | Cardiovascular Allied Health Teaching Project | Cardiology | cardiology |
 | Climate Conscious Deprescribing Initiative | Internal Medicine, Pharmacy | internal-medicine pharmacy |
 | Clinical Ethics Lunch and Learns – Meeting a need during COVID and beyond | Ethics | ethics |
 | Comparison in surgical approaches to varicose veins | Family Practice, General Surgery | family-practice general-surgery |
 | Complex Patient Committee | Gastroenterology, Hospitalist Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry | gastroenterology hospitalist-medicine neurology psychiatry |
 | Conquering CPRS | Physiatry | physiatry |
| COPD Order Set Development | Hospitalist Medicine | hospitalist-medicine |
 | COVID Ward | Hospitalist Medicine, Internal Medicine | hospitalist-medicine internal-medicine |
 | Current and Future Issues for GI Department and Related Specialties and Allied Health | Gastroenterology | gastroenterology |
| Demedicalizing the End of Life | General Internal Medicine, Hospitalist Medicine, Palliative Care | general-internal-medicine hospitalist-medicine palliative-care |
 | Designing a Multi-Disciplinary Clinic at the BCCA | Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Urology | medical-oncology radiation-oncology urology |
| Developing a process for remote access to Echo | Cardiology | cardiology |
 | Development of a Complex Comorbidities Clinic | Internal Medicine | internal-medicine |
| Development of an Island Health Robotic Urology Surgery Program | Surgery, Urology | surgery urology |
| Development of the South Island Hospitalist MAiD Service | Hospitalist Medicine | hospitalist-medicine |
| Development of the Victoria Enhanced Recovery Arthroplasty (VERA) program | Orthopedic Surgery | orthopedic-surgery |
 | Development of Victoria Prostate Cancer Supportive Care Program Modules | Radiation Oncology, Urology | radiation-oncology urology |
 | Early Pregnancy Loss | Maternity, Obstetrics | maternity obstetrics |
| Early Psychosis Order Set | Psychiatry | psychiatry |
 | ED Simulation Initiative – Final Project Wrap Up | Emergency Medicine | emergency-medicine |
 | End of Life Care: Serious Illness Conversation Guide | Palliative Medicine | palliative-medicine |
 | Engaging the Echo Lab Personnel on how to Enhance Workflow and Productivity in the Echo Lab | Cardiology | cardiology |
| Enhancing Specialist Care for Patients with Decompensated Liver Disease | Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine | gastroenterology internal-medicine |
 | ER Dermatology Referrals | Dermatology, Emergency Medicine | dermatology emergency-medicine |
| ER Discharge Resources | Emergency Medicine | emergency-medicine |
 | ERCP Service Improvement and Follow-up | Gastroenterology | gastroenterology |
| Form 21 Communication Process Improvements | PES, Psychiatry | pes psychiatry |
| Gastroenterology Central Access and Triage Referring Physician Education Evening | Family Practice, Gastroenterology | family-practice gastroenterology |
 | GEM Team Refresh | Geriatric Medicine, Geriatric Psychiatry, Hospitalist Medicine | geriatric-medicine geriatric-psychiatry hospitalist-medicine |
 | General Internal Medicine Strategic Planning | General Internal Medicine | general-internal-medicine |
| High Complexity Care Team | Family Practice, Hospitalist Medicine | family-practice hospitalist-medicine |
| Hospital at Home Project | Hospitalist Medicine | hospitalist-medicine |
| Hospitalist Morbidity and Mortality Rounds Program Development | Hospitalist Medicine | hospitalist-medicine |
| Hospitalist Trauma Ward Co-Planning | Hospitalist Medicine | hospitalist-medicine |
| IBD Clinical Rounds | Gastroenterology | gastroenterology |
| Improving Adoption of Dictation Software for Emergency Physicians | Emergency Medicine | emergency-medicine |
 | Improving Island Health email use for Physicians | Family Practice, IT | family-practice it |
 | Improving the care of neonates exposed in utero to opiates | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| In-School mental health initiative for young children | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Inpatient Asthma Support | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Integration of General Internal Medicine into the Cardiology unit | Cardiology, Internal Medicine | cardiology internal-medicine |
 | Inter-Departmental Impact Review of the Primary Care Crisis on Specialty Physician Experiences | Family Practice, Specialists | family-practice specialists |
| Interdisciplinary In Situ Simulations | Emergency Medicine | emergency-medicine |
| LTC Wound Care | Long-Term Care, Physiatry | long-term-care physiatry |
 | Management of Controlled Substances in the OR | Anaesthesiology | anaesthesiology |
| Mental Health Service Delivery for Marginalized Elderly/Frail Populations | Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry | geriatric-psychiatry psychiatry |
| Microdose Suboxone Initiation from Acute Care | Addictions Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Hospitalist Medicine | addictions-medicine emergency-medicine family-practice hospitalist-medicine |
| Mock Code Blue | Emergency Medicine | emergency-medicine |
| Monthly TEE Case Review | Anaesthesiology, Cardiology | anaesthesiology cardiology |
| Networking to Nurture Physician Relationships Across Departments | Emergency Medicine, Family Practice | emergency-medicine family-practice |
| Neuromuscular Pediatric Clinic Review | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Outpatient Clinic Medical Office Assistance | Physiatry | physiatry |
| Pain Management and Opiate Safety Working Group | Anaesthesiology | anaesthesiology |
| Palliative Care-Cardiology Collaboration | Cardiology, Palliative Medicine | cardiology palliative-medicine |
| Palliative Physicians’ Association Agreement Development | Palliative Medicine | palliative-medicine |
| Paracentesis Process Improvement | Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Radiology | emergency-medicine internal-medicine medical-oncology palliative-medicine radiology |
| Pediatric Complex Care | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Pediatric Interdisciplinary In Situ Simulation Program | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Pediatric Resilience Project | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Pediatric topics for patients and providers | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Peer-facilitated group support for women with postpartum depression and anxiety | Family Practice | family-practice |
 | Penicillin Allergy Delabeling in Pregnancy | Immunology | immunology |
| Phase 2: Peer Facilitated Group Support for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety | Family Practice Obstetrics | family-practice-obstetrics |
| Point of Care Ultrasound | Hospitalist Medicine | hospitalist-medicine |
| Presurgical Resilience Optimization Project (PROP) | Anaesthesiology, Family Practice, Orthopedic Surgery | anaesthesiology family-practice orthopedic-surgery |
 | Pulmonary Function Test Lab Service Improvement | Respirology | respirology |
| Rapid Delabelling of antibiotic allergy among children | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Reducing Pharmaceutical Costs in ER | Emergency Medicine, Pharmacy | emergency-medicine pharmacy |
| Regional Anesthesia Program | Anaesthesiology | anaesthesiology |
| Smoking cessation program for Crohn’s disease patients | Gastroenterology | gastroenterology |
| South Island Integrated Breast Cancer Care Program | General Surgery, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology | general-surgery medical-oncology radiation-oncology |
| South Island Urologic Care | Urology | urology |
| Specialist Presentations at Hospitalist Rounds | Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Geriatric Psychiatry, Hospitalist Medicine | cardiology emergency-medicine geriatric-psychiatry hospitalist-medicine |
| Spinal Cord Protection for Thoracic Aortic Surgery | Anaesthesiology, Cardiac Surgery, Vascular Surgery | anaesthesiology cardiac-surgery vascular-surgery |
| Streamlining Access to Perinatal Ultrasound | Family Practice Obstetrics, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Radiology | family-practice-obstetrics gynecology obstetrics radiology |
| Surgeries for Disadvantaged Patients | Plastic Surgery, Surgery | plastic-surgery surgery |
| Sustainable Pediatric Leadership Initiative | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| The Pregnancy Journey: Supporting Women who use Substances | Addictions Medicine, Family Practice, Maternity, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Psychiatry | addictions-medicine family-practice maternity obstetrics pediatrics psychiatry |
 | The Saanich Police Shooting: Completing the Story | All | all |
 | Thomas Splint Educational Video | Emergency Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery | emergency-medicine orthopedic-surgery |
| Toxidrome Guideline for Agitated Youth | Emergency Medicine, Pediat | emergency-medicine pediat |
 | Transgender Surgical Care on Vancouver Island | Family Practice, Gynecology, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry, Urology | family-practice gynecology plastic-surgery psychiatry urology |
| Trauma Patient Management – Education and Planning | General Surgery, Hospitalist Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery | general-surgery hospitalist-medicine orthopedic-surgery thoracic-surgery |
| Updating Pre-Printed Order Sets | Hospitalist Medicine | hospitalist-medicine |
| Updating the OR Checklists | Anaesthesiology | anaesthesiology |
| Urgent Pediatric Access Clinic | Pediatrics | pediatrics |
| Vancouver Island IBD Forum | Gastroenterology | gastroenterology |
 | Vancouver Island Interdisciplinary Sexual Medicine Working Group | Family Practice, Gynecology, Psychiatry, Urology | family-practice gynecology psychiatry urology |
 | Vancouver Island Thoracic Surgery Oncology Program | Thoracic Surgery | thoracic-surgery |
| Vested Team Attendance and Process | Hospitalist Medicine | hospitalist-medicine |
 | Women in Leadership | Family Practice Obstetrics, Leadership, Pediatrics | family-practice-obstetrics leadership pediatrics |
| Worksafe BC Re-allocation in ER | Emergency Medicine | emergency-medicine |