IPEME 2022 and CISEPO 2022 Programs

Dear Friends,

I hope you’re all staying healthy and well during these challenging pandemic days. All CISEPO programs from the remainder of 2021 and for most of 2022 will be delivered entirely virtually. We will be continuing with our Health Equity Grand Rounds, Behavioural Neuroscience Grand Rounds, Aging and Mental Health Grand Rounds, International Dermatology Grand Rounds, and Canada-Kenya High Risk MFM Grand Rounds, as well as our Virtual based Covid-19 Rapid Response Community Leadership Program ( Mental Health and Crisis Prevention Streams). These programs will resume in October 2021 virtually and we look forward to seeing on zoom our friends and colleagues all around the world. If these sessions are new to you and you’re interested in joining, then please reach out to Maha at maha@cisepo.ca or to Shawna at snovak@cisepo.ca

IPEME will undergo some changes for 2022. We’ll be integrating new health equity components in the curriculum and McMaster University will assume a larger role in the global health portion of the program. As we’re not yet certain whether it’ll be feasible to offer IPEME in person again this year and we’ve had much demand from other disciplines to apply, we’re going to consider opening up the program for 2022 to those in other programs beyond medicine. This change in admissions to the program will be a temporary change for the 2022 virtual program and we will return to our original medical elective format post-pandemic. Please contact snovak@cisepo.ca with any questions about IPEME 2022.

Wishing everyone well and hoping that we see each other again very soon!