pre-conference workshops
Friday morning, hands-on.
Four pre-conference workshops on Friday, October 16 — three in person at the Wyndham Edmonton Hotel & Conference Centre and one virtual. Space is limited, with each workshop capped at 20 participants.
Wrist and Shoulder Injuries in Primary Care: If You Don’t Touch, You Don’t Find!
This interactive, case-based workshop will focus on practical approaches to common wrist and shoulder conditions encountered in family practice with an emphasis on your physical exam. Participants will learn how to efficiently assess patients, identify and practice key clinical findings, review imaging modalities, and apply evidence-based treatment strategies. History, physical, and then imaging! Understand how it all fits together.
- Perform a focused assessment of patients presenting with wrist and shoulder complaints, integrating key elements of the history and physical examination.
- Demonstrate high-yield physical examination maneuvers to identify common wrist and shoulder conditions and distinguish between competing diagnoses.
- Understand when imaging may be helpful in the diagnosis of wrist/shoulder injuries and how results may influence management.
- Develop evidence-based management strategies including conservative management and referral when appropriate.
Primary Care Cardiology Without the Cardiologist
Using key trials and guidelines with primary and patient oriented outcomes focus, participants work through clinical cases demonstrating principles in managing; cardiovascular disease prevention, hypertension, and antiplatelet therapy. Emphasis will be placed on patient-oriented outcomes and translating evidence into simple, achievable and patient-centred management strategies.
- Use and understand risk prediction tools and ancillary tests to improve shared decision-making with patients.
- Understand the magnitude of benefits and harms of treatments (non-pharm and pharmaceutical) that improve patient-oriented outcomes for primary (and secondary) CV risk reduction.
- Understand and apply the benefits and harms of commonly used treatments for people with type 2 diabetes.
- Understand and apply current evidence on the potential benefits and harms of treating to targets for lipid, diabetes and hypertension.
- Construct patient-centred hypertension management strategies that balance expected benefits, harms, treatment burden, and patient preferences.
- Apply the evidence of benefits and harms of anti-platelet regimens, considering how many and for how long, for patients with CVD at varying risks.
Clinical Teaching 101: How to Be an Effective Teacher
Whether teaching a medical student in clinic, facilitating small-group learning, or presenting at a conference, effective teaching is a skill that can be learned and refined. This interactive workshop will explore evidence-informed strategies for engaging learners, delivering memorable teaching points, providing meaningful feedback, and creating learning experiences that change practice. Through discussion, exercises, and peer feedback, participants will develop practical teaching techniques that can be applied immediately in clinical, academic, and continuing professional development settings.
- Apply evidence-based principles of adult learning to improve teaching effectiveness in clinical and educational settings.
- Use practical strategies to engage learners, facilitate discussion, and deliver key teaching messages that enhance knowledge retention and behaviour change.
- Provide constructive feedback and assess learner performance in a manner that supports growth and ongoing development.
The University of Alberta Department of Family Medicine is offering a $100 bursary for clinical faculty within the department. Limited to the first 10 clinical faculty registrants.
Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Practice: Work Smarter Not Harder
This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to Canadian-compliant AI solutions that are preferred by clinicians and learn/review possible AI solutions including (but not limited to) scribes; tools that assist with form completion and chart summarization; evidence retrieval, AI receptionists; and gain hands-on experience using selected platforms.
- Learn about Canadian compliant AI tools that can assist with documentation, chart review, form completion and evidence retrieval.
- Use selected AI applications to complete common clinical tasks more efficiently while recognizing their limitations and appropriate use cases.
- Implement practical strategies to safely integrate AI technologies into everyday practice to reduce administrative workload and improve clinical efficiency.
This workshop is presented as a live online virtual workshop. (no recording)
Particularly impactful were the discussions that questioned rigid adherence to guidelines, advocating instead for individualized, context-sensitive decision-making. It resonated with the realities of frontline practice.
PEIP 2025 attendee
Join us in 2026
Early-bird ends September 16, 2026.
Two days in Edmonton or live online — secure your seat at the 2026 early-bird rate.