CKHA’s ‘Discovery Week’, hat for Dad, World No Tobacco Day

Wallaceburg Retirement Residence – Morning Coffee

Weather forecast for Thursday, May 31, 2018

Today – A mix of sun and cloud with 60 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms. Wind southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 28. Humidex 36. UV index 8 or very high.

Tonight – Partly cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers this evening with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low 19.

CKHA hosts medical students for Discovery Week 2018

First-year medical students from Schulich School of Medicine, Western University for Discovery Week 2018 at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. From May 28 to May 31, 2018 students will have the opportunity to shadow family physicians, specialists, nurse practitioners and allied healthcare professionals (Submitted photo)

Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) will be host to 19 first-year medical students from Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry for Discovery Week 2018.

Taking place May 28 to May 31, Discovery Week places first year medical students in rural and regional health care settings providing a unique learning opportunity and an intimate understanding of the diverse experiences that impact health and wellness. CKHA has participated in Discovery Week for more than 10 years.

“Discovery Week is an excellent opportunity to attract doctors to rural hospitals like Chatham-Kent Health Alliance,” says Lori Marshall, President and CEO, CKHA.

“We’ve had many students who participate in Discovery Week come back to Chatham-Kent to complete electives during their third and fourth year of medical school because of their experience with us during Discovery Week.”

Organized by the Distributed Education Network, students from Schulich School of Medicine (London and Windsor Campus) partner with Chatham-Kent Health Alliance for a unique learning experience that offers exposure to community medicine for medical students.

Students will have the opportunity to shadow family physicians, specialists, nurse practitioners and allied healthcare professionals in many areas of Chatham-Kent to find out what a typical workday entails.

More than 40 local physicians have signed up to be a preceptor/teacher to the students during this week-long learning experience.

“CKHA is thrilled to be part of Discovery Week! We look forward to this week every year and our medical education continues to grow along with our partnership with Schulich School of Medicine,” said Kim Sutton, Interdisciplinary Education Coordinator, CKHA. “It is so gratifying for all of us involved to watch these students come full circle, as they graduate from medical school, enter residency and practice medicine.”

Discovery Week has been creating opportunities for medical students to experience rural and regional health care across Southwestern Ontario for the past two decades. This year, 170 candidates will be in close to 30 participating communities extending from Chatham-Kent to Owen Sound. Discovery Week originally started as part of a strategy to attract doctors to set up practice in rural and regional locations. Research shows that students begin making career decisions early in their medical school careers. Discovery Week is designed to expose students to medicine as it is practiced outside of large urban areas before they make firm plans for their careers.

In addition to the in-hospital education component of the week, students will have the opportunity to meet the physicians in a casual atmosphere and experience firsthand some of the many amenities offered in Chatham-Kent.

Make a Gift for Dad at the Wallaceburg Library

The Wallaceburg Branch of the Chatham-Kent Public Library will be offering a ‘Make a Gift for Dad’ program on Friday, June 8 at 10:30 a.m.

Join us on this P.A. day and decorate a ball cap for your Dad.

Help to make him the coolest Dad in the neighborhood.

All supplies will be provided.

This event is for ages 4+ and registration is required.

To register for the program, visit search.ckpl.ca and search for ‘Make a Gift for Dad’ or call 519-627-5292.

To find out more about programs and events at Chatham-Kent Public Library, visit www.ckpl.ca.

National news

Government of Canada marks World No Tobacco Day with launch of Canada’s Tobacco Strategy

Every day, Canadians are getting sick or dying because of tobacco use and exposure to second hand smoke.

Tobacco use still kills 45,000 Canadians each year.

That’s one person every twelve minutes.

More than 4 million people still use tobacco in Canada – about 15% of the population.

This week, the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, marked World No Tobacco Day by launching Canada’s Tobacco Strategy.

The goal of the new strategy is to drive down the smoking rate in Canada to less than 5% by 2035. The strategy is the result of extensive consultation and engagement with Canadians across the country over the past year.

“Our government takes the health of Canadians seriously,” Taylor said in a media release.

“That’s why we have significantly increased funding for Canada’s Tobacco Strategy, which will allow us to remain a world leader in reducing overall smoking rates. Through this Strategy and the new Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, we can help people who use tobacco to stop and we can discourage others from starting. We are committed to the next phase of our work, which aims to drive down tobacco use by Canadians to less than 5% by 2035.”

Canada’s Tobacco Strategy will take focused action to help Canadians quit smoking, including groups of Canadians with the highest rates of tobacco use. It will also take a pragmatic and compassionate approach to supporting Canadians who already use tobacco, to reduce the negative consequences of nicotine addiction.

It will focus on:

– Helping Canadians quit tobacco,

– Protecting young people and non-tobacco users,

– Strengthening our foundations in science and surveillance to support evidence-based decision-making, and
collaborating with our many partners.

The Strategy is supported by measures introduced through the new Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, which recently received Royal Assent, and through the increased funding for federal action on tobacco that was announced in Budget 2018 – the first significant increase in funding to address tobacco use in nearly two decades.

All Canadians will benefit from Canada’s Tobacco Strategy. We will see fewer Canadians starting to smoke, more Canadians quitting, and a new generation of healthier Canadians with a greater awareness of how important it is to never pick up that first cigarette.

More details:

– The vast majority of smokers begin smoking by adolescence or young adulthood. In Canada, 82% of current adult daily smokers had smoked their first cigarette by the age of 18.

– In 2015 alone, 115,000 Canadians began smoking cigarettes daily.

– Budget 2018 announced $80.5 million in new funding over five years for Canada’s Tobacco Strategy. Building on existing funding, that’s approximately $330 million in tobacco control efforts and the regulation of vaping products over the next five years.

– The Governments new Tobacco and Vaping Products Act received Royal Assent on May 23, 2018.

World news

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