Note: At this time in-person educational events and programming are on hold due to Covid-19.
Webinars, online courses, and other online training remain available on the Clinical Education and Training website.
The BC-CfE Journal Club is a critical review and discussion of recent research and scientific articles focused on HIV-related topics. The following papers were discussed in Journal Club over the past 6 months.
Presentations:
- Title: Momentum II Health Study – Vancouver site of the National Engage Study: Portrait of the health and wellbeing of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Metro Vancouver
- Presented by: Jordan Sang
- Date: March 11, 2021
- Title: Immortal time bias in observational epidemiologic research
- Paper: Lévesque LE, Hanley JA, Kezouh A, Suissa S. Problem of immortal time bias in cohort studies: example using statins for preventing progression of diabetes. BMJ. 2010 Mar 12;340:b5087. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5087. PMID: 20228141. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20228141/
- Presented by: Taylor McLinden
- Date: March 4, 2021
- Title: Safe Consumption Sites and the Determinants of Health
- Paper: Kerman N, Manoni-Millar S, Cormier L, Cahill T, Sylvestre J. “It’s not just injecting drugs”: Supervised consumption sites and the social determinants of health. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 May 23;213:108078. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108078. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32485658. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32485658/
- Presented by: Kate Salters
- Date: February 11, 2021
- Title: Hepatitis C and Discrimination in the Health Care System
- Paper: In Plain Sight Report: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care https://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/613/2020/11/In-Plain-Sight-Full-Report.pdf
- Presented by: Nance Cunningham
- Date: January 28, 2021