Dr. @JillianHortonMD starts with a very personal reflection that many of us can relate to... recognition that she (we) are often going through the motions of academic medicine, burning out, leaving 'garbage scraps' and a low feeling of accomplishment. #CCME2022 "What if this IS the story?"

Dr. @JillianHortonMD writes in the margins during an airplane ride...the realization that we ARE the story. If we have the courage to use our voice...

#CCME2022

On my way to #CCME22 Look forward to seeing #MedEd folks in person soon in #YYC …This year I’m proud to be supporting 5 student collaborator presentations… On Sunday #CCME22 in OA1-3 Khadija Ahmed will present on exploring how admissions stakeholders grapple with their biases. This one will be in person! Hope to see folks there.

Amidst increasing attention to the #mentalhealth of health workers, we explored how #stigma is understood/enacted in #MedEd. We learned that things are a lot more complicated than we thought. 🧵

@jelenapole @juveriazaheer @rachaelpack89 @MedEd_Journal

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… We know #stigma can prevent help-seeking due to the risk/repercussions of disclosure. This topic has been well researched. See the article below and work of @drjessigold @KGoldMD for more details /1

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If a grant is about addressing implicit bias and doesn’t mention structural bias it shouldn’t be funded. If a paper is about implicit bias without mentioning structural bias it shouldn’t be published.

This week will mark the first #bellletstalk day since I have moved from Canada to the US. Now that I have begun a new chapter I want to share the story of the past 10 years of fighting for change in Canada. Buckle your seatbelts…this is a long thread 🧵 I grew up idealizing Canadian healthcare. I trained/worked in different countries yet moved back to Canada 10 years ago expecting something better than what I found. The truth is that Canadian decision makers have systematically neglected/underfunded mental health for decades. /1

Symbolic solidarity or virtue signaling? Major paper alert on #antiracism in #meded 🚨🚨🚨

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Led by @allison_brown99 and with a stellar team of coauthors @auguste_emma912 F Omobhude and N Bakana We sought to examine the initial statements published by academic medical organizations in response to societal concerns about systemic, anti-Black racism.

Through discourse analysis of statements from US and Canadian medical schools and academic organizations we learned:

During the middle of the pandemic, my former Department Chair asked us to go around the room and say a few words about how we were feeling… 🧵 bbc.com/worklife/artic… “I’m feeling hopeless and hopeful,” I said to the group of about 20 colleagues. As the meeting ended, I was sent an email asking me to meet with the Chair for a check-in. /1

Excited to join #CERIconversation today with @CaulfieldTim about the dangers of misinformation and how health professions educators can play an important role into the future. @ChrisWatling3 starts off with our introduction... Along with the pandemic came an #infodemic - there is REAL harm associated with misinformation. It is actually "killing people" and we must do something to act. We need to "push back against the noise" - @CaulfieldTim

Must listen for anyone involved with #equity #antiracism work in #meded and beyond. #RIME #AAMC21 A few highlights...

https://twitter.com/AcadMedJournal/status/1445388992577421314

It is fantastic to see a growth of scholarship related to inequity, racism, and justice in #MedEd. Research can help us gain a deeper understanding and both papers we featured use innovative methods to help generate knowledge with important implications. /1

When you love someone you tell them the truth. You hold them accountable. You face the harsh realities and work towards reconciliation because you believe with your whole heart that they can and will be better. #CanadaDay2021

https://twitter.com/javeedsukhera/status/1387166109527334917

This year my relationship with my Canadian identity is complex. I am leaving the land of my birth this fall and had to reconcile this departure with what it means to be a Canadian. I made the decision for many reasons, but I want to share some of my reflections with you all. /1

I have a message for any young Muslim who is waking up this morning to a complex and heavy mix of emotions.
Be deliberate and unafraid.
And I have a message for everyone else:
Your silence will not protect you. This is a matter of life and death for some of us. Walking while Muslim should not be a crime. Immigrants shouldn’t come here, work hard, seek peace, and then be murdered while out for an evening walk on a warm Sunday evening.

Today I ask that no one look away from the vile anti Muslim prejudice in our midst. I have lived in #LdnOnt for almost a decade and these are the kinds of messages I have received on an ongoing basis. Love and courage is all we have to give back. Even in the face of the most vile murderous hate that we encounter. #OurLondonFamily

There was a piece in today’s @globeandmail that I won’t link here but feel compelled to share my thoughts about with you all. Essentially, the author, who is a philosopher by discipline, argues that the term BIPOC is un-Canadian and should be replaced by the term FIVM. /1 FIVM is a term the author appears to have made up all by themselves to refer to Francophone, Indigenous, and Visible Minority populations. He writes that French Canadians were victimized by British Colonialism and deserve to be recognized. /2

Tonight I’m grappling with the joy of having my child vaccinated and the sorrow that comes with remembering every Indigenous child that was ripped from their family and suffered in silence at the hands of a genocidal system that continues to wreak havoc to this day. I’m thinking of my ancestors from places like rural Punjab and Aligarh who fought against Colonialism while simultaneously benefitting from it. I’m wrestling with the tension from these revelations.

Here in Ontario, I have always believed school closures and openings should be decided at a local level based on the best science available. Every family is different and every kid is different. Here are my thoughts on the current situation as a child/adolescent psychiatrist... The distances created by the pandemic have polarized our discourse about virtually everything. This polarization is dangerous and doesn’t bode well for the future. Instead of an obsession between opening versus closing how about we resist this narrative? /1

I never imagined that wishing and hoping and speaking up for peaceful coexistence in the midst of perennial conflict would become taboo. Yet, that is the state of our angry world. I have a Muslim faith background. The events of 2001 shattered my sense of identity. In 2003, made a deliberate decision to move outside my comfortable existence and do something completely unexpected for someone like me: I moved to Israel.

On the uses of anger, #AudreLorde 1981: “Anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification” “for it is in the painful process of this translation that we identify who are our allies with whom we have grave differences, and who are our genuine enemies.”

Strangers in a strange land...

A thread about you and I, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. About connection, and disconnection. About where we we want to go from here... I tiptoed very tentatively into online discourse. Yet, quickly, I embraced how this platform provided a unique opportunity to connect with complete strangers and foster a sense of shared humanity.

I’ve been reflecting on what it means to be an immigrant in Canada. The stark reality has become clear. Our labour matters more than our lives. Our humanity matters less than our subservience. Our silence is rewarded and our speaking up is discouraged. Our fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles work hard to ensure the comfort and well-being of their fellow Canadians, yet their well-being is not anyone’s priority. Canada opened her arms and welcomed them with a smile, only to turn her back to our pleas.

Science table to @fordnation - we have done the work, divert 50% of vaccines to these 74 neighborhoods and less people will suffer and die. His response: “WE NEED A TRAVEL BAN!”

https://twitter.com/cristina_cp24/status/1386360797207699457

This story was from March 6! Clearly @NatKusendova and @ninatangri knew their loyalty was to their party instead of their constituents. thepointer.com/article/2021-0…

This is my personal opinion and does not represent any organization I work with:

The measures introduced today by the Ontario government will cause active and irreparable harm for racialized communities in Ontario. They will harm the mental health of Ontario’s children. 1/2 We all know that workplace spread is the source of case counts increasing. Yet instead of protecting the lives of essential workers, the Ford Government has decided to continue to enact half measures while deflecting responsibility for their own dismal failures. 2/4