FMER-PRAM Crossroad Panel Discussions Panel #1 – Family Medicine Education Scholarship and Participation Science: Engaged Adolescent Medicine

FMER-PRAM Crossroad Panel Discussions

Date: Friday, June 14, 2024

Panel #1 – Family Medicine Education Scholarship and Participation Science: Engaged Adolescent Medicine

Overview:

On June 14, 2024, the first Family Medicine Education Research Group (FMER)-PRAM Crossroad Panel Discussion was held at McGill University’s Thomson House.

Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and students to discuss innovative approaches to improve adolescent health outcomes, invited panelists presented their work related to family medicine education scholarship and participatory science in adolescent medicine.

Panel Facilitators:
Neil Andersson, MD, PhD, Professor of Family Medicine, Director PRAM
Charo Rodriguez, MD, MSc, PhD, Professor of Family Medicine, Director FMER

Date: Friday, June 14, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: McGill Thomson House, 3650 McTavish Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1Y2

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Panelists

Iván Sarmiento, PhD

CIET-PRAM’s Research and Training Coordinator
Department of Family Medicine
School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University

Anne Cockcroft, MD

Professor
Department of Family Medicine
School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University

Dr. Iván Sarmiento spoke of how transformative change is fostered in young researchers throughout their training in participatory research methods.

Dr. Iván Sarmiento is CIET-PRAM’s research and training coordinator. He completed his PhD in Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at the Department of Family Medicine. His work deals with bridging diverse sources of knowledge through developing and applying participatory research techniques. Ivan has contributed to the training of undergraduate and graduate students in Colombia and Canada since 2013.

Dr. Anne Cockcroft presented her work in Bauchi, Nigeria, focusing on improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) by engaging directly with teens. She shared insights from this process, highlighting how it has informed an upcoming project in Montreal, Canada. This new project aims to enhance the accessibility of primary care services for teenagers, in partnership with the Goldman Herzl Family Practice Centre’s Teenage Health Unit.

Dr. Anne Cockcroft, a physician with a background in respiratory and occupational medicine, is a professor in PRAM in the McGill department of Family Medicine. Working with CIET (a non-profit linked with PRAM in Canada) for 25 years, she has undertaken large scale community-based participatory research in low- and middle-income countries, especially in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Her participatory research in Bauchi State, Nigeria, over the last 15 years focuses on maternal and child health, male engagement, and sexual and reproductive health. A current project centres youth in co-design of strategies to support good adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

Pierre-Paul Tellier, MD

Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine
School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University

Claudia Mitchell, PhD

James McGill Professor
Faculty of Education
McGill University

Pierre-Paul Tellier highlighted the importance of training residents to better meet the unique healthcare needs of adolescents.

Dr. Mitchell is an Associate Professor in the McGill Department of Family Medicine, and founding member of the FMER, Dr Tellier is a family physician working at the CLSC Côte-des-Neiges and MedicElle. His main clinical and educational research interests are adolescent health and the medical care of sexual and gender diverse populations. He is involved in teaching at McGill Medical School, in the McGill Family Medicine residency program, and in CPD at a variety of conferences worldwide..

Claudia Mitchell discussed the applications of visual and other participatory approaches to research and social action, with examples spanning from Nunavik to South Africa..

Dr. Mitchell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University and an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. At McGill, she is the director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the founder and director of the Participatory Cultures Lab, a research and training unit in the Faculty of Education funded through the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Her research focuses on participatory visual and arts-based approaches to working with young people and communities in relation to addressing critical social issues such as gender equality and gender-based violence and in a wide range of country contexts in West Africa, Southern and Eastern Africa, and East Asia Pacific.