Events Calendar


    • Dec - 12

        Health Literacy Education Workshop


        Overview

        Becoming a health literate organization depends on many aspects. One of these aspects is educating staff to improve their health literacy skills and consequently improving patients’ health outcomes.  The health Literacy Education workshop is aimed at clinical staff from hospitals and clinics to enhance their knowledge as well as provide them with the necessary tools to overcome barriers.

        The workshop content is evidence based and some of the topics are adapted from the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ). This activity is category 1 & 3 and attendees will receive CPD points.

        Topics/Sessions

        • Health Literacy
        • Learning Barriers
        • Patient and Family Education
        • Patient Engagement
        • Medication Adherence
        • Teachback Method
        • Documentation

        Workshop Objectives

        • To enhance clinical staff knowledge about health literacy
        • To educate clinical staff about the importance of applying health literacy skills in day to day work
        • To provide clinical staff with the necessary tools to overcome health literacy barriers

        Target Audience

        Clinical staff:  Physicians -Nurses- pharmacists – Allied health professionals – Medical interpreters

        Reward Credits CPD

        Participants will be awarded 6 CPD points

        Scientific Committee

        • Helen Sutherland - Clinical Nurse Education manager
        • Dr.Wessam Gadelhaq - Medical Education Director
        • Amal Alfarsi – Health & Wellness Education Manager
        • Kedra Elmi – Nurse Educator
        • Evony Constantino - Clinical Nurse Leader

        Main presenters

        • Aljori Al-Ajji: Health & Wellness Educator 
        • Fatima Al-Maslamani: Health & Wellness Educator
        • Maha Al-Naama: Health & Wellness Educator 

        Guest Presenters

        • Abeeda Ladha: Quality Manager
        • Lahoucine Naim: Specialist - Medication Management and Pharmacy Quality
        • Mohammed Amer: Clinical Nurse Educator

        Organizers’ contact details

        Email: HealthandWellnessEducation@sidra.org
        Tel: 40035453

        Register Now

        For Sidra Medicine staff

      • Jan - Jan 19 - 21

          Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine (QPEM) International Conference 2024


          Overview of the conference

          Now in its eighth year, QPEM’s conference goal is to provide high-quality, evidence-based updates for healthcare practitioners involved in the urgent and emergent care of children.

          Conference Objectives

          At the end of the conference, our multidisciplinary participants will have expanded knowledge on a variety of key topics; be able to recognize and manage common yet potentially serious conditions; will have improved critical thinking; be able to discuss research in PEM; and will incorporate quality and patient safety goals into practice.

          • Recognize serious illness and injury in children presenting to the ED
          • Discuss the best evidence in the management of critically ill neonates and children
          • Manage a variety of medical, surgical, traumatic, behavioral, and technology-assisted presentations in children
          • Review the best articles in PEM for the last year
          • Analyze cases using the best evidence to critically plan management
          • Evaluate clinical pathways in use in pediatric EDs
          • Incorporate quality and patient safety goals into daily practice
          • Evaluate academic practice in PEM
          • Review the interventions needed for a variety of toxicological ingestions
          • List the red flags and detail a systems approach when managing trauma

          Target Audience

          Physicians,
          Nurse Practitioners,
          Nurses,
          Pharmacists,
          Allied Health,
          EMTs
          Trainees.

          Scientific Committee

          • Prof. Khalid Al Ansari – Chair of Emergency Medicine
          • Dr. Barbara Blackie  - Senior Attending Physician - ED    
          • Dr Syed Haris Huda – Attending Physician, ED    
          • Ms. Ruth Adeola, Clinical Nurse Facilitator             
          • Ms. Laura Reid, Supervisor RT Services     
          • Ms. Shazia Akram, Clinical Pharmacist
          • Ms. Leena Amine , Manager –Poison Control Center
          • Dr. Nasser Haidar, Senior Consultant Pediatric Emergency Center Al Saad
          • Pro. Guillaume Alinier, Senior Consultant, HMC?
          • Ms. Nora Senda – Director of Nursing-Pediatric Emergency Center Al Saad

          View the Speakers Download the Program

          Register Now

      • Dec - 12

          Health Literacy Education Workshop


          Overview

          Becoming a health literate organization depends on many aspects. One of these aspects is educating staff to improve their health literacy skills and consequently improving patients’ health outcomes.  The health Literacy Education workshop is aimed at clinical staff from hospitals and clinics to enhance their knowledge as well as provide them with the necessary tools to overcome barriers.

          The workshop content is evidence based and some of the topics are adapted from the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ). This activity is category 1 & 3 and attendees will receive CPD points.

          Topics/Sessions

          • Health Literacy
          • Learning Barriers
          • Patient and Family Education
          • Patient Engagement
          • Medication Adherence
          • Teachback Method
          • Documentation

          Workshop Objectives

          • To enhance clinical staff knowledge about health literacy
          • To educate clinical staff about the importance of applying health literacy skills in day to day work
          • To provide clinical staff with the necessary tools to overcome health literacy barriers

          Target Audience

          Clinical staff:  Physicians -Nurses- pharmacists – Allied health professionals – Medical interpreters

          Reward Credits CPD

          Participants will be awarded 6 CPD points

          Scientific Committee

          • Helen Sutherland - Clinical Nurse Education manager
          • Dr.Wessam Gadelhaq - Medical Education Director
          • Amal Alfarsi – Health & Wellness Education Manager
          • Kedra Elmi – Nurse Educator
          • Evony Constantino - Clinical Nurse Leader

          Main presenters

          • Aljori Al-Ajji: Health & Wellness Educator 
          • Fatima Al-Maslamani: Health & Wellness Educator
          • Maha Al-Naama: Health & Wellness Educator 

          Guest Presenters

          • Abeeda Ladha: Quality Manager
          • Lahoucine Naim: Specialist - Medication Management and Pharmacy Quality
          • Mohammed Amer: Clinical Nurse Educator

          Organizers’ contact details

          Email: HealthandWellnessEducation@sidra.org
          Tel: 40035453

          Register Now

          For Sidra Medicine staff

        • Jan - Jan 19 - 21

            Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine (QPEM) International Conference 2024


            Overview of the conference

            Now in its eighth year, QPEM’s conference goal is to provide high-quality, evidence-based updates for healthcare practitioners involved in the urgent and emergent care of children.

            Conference Objectives

            At the end of the conference, our multidisciplinary participants will have expanded knowledge on a variety of key topics; be able to recognize and manage common yet potentially serious conditions; will have improved critical thinking; be able to discuss research in PEM; and will incorporate quality and patient safety goals into practice.

            • Recognize serious illness and injury in children presenting to the ED
            • Discuss the best evidence in the management of critically ill neonates and children
            • Manage a variety of medical, surgical, traumatic, behavioral, and technology-assisted presentations in children
            • Review the best articles in PEM for the last year
            • Analyze cases using the best evidence to critically plan management
            • Evaluate clinical pathways in use in pediatric EDs
            • Incorporate quality and patient safety goals into daily practice
            • Evaluate academic practice in PEM
            • Review the interventions needed for a variety of toxicological ingestions
            • List the red flags and detail a systems approach when managing trauma

            Target Audience

            Physicians,
            Nurse Practitioners,
            Nurses,
            Pharmacists,
            Allied Health,
            EMTs
            Trainees.

            Scientific Committee

            • Prof. Khalid Al Ansari – Chair of Emergency Medicine
            • Dr. Barbara Blackie  - Senior Attending Physician - ED    
            • Dr Syed Haris Huda – Attending Physician, ED    
            • Ms. Ruth Adeola, Clinical Nurse Facilitator             
            • Ms. Laura Reid, Supervisor RT Services     
            • Ms. Shazia Akram, Clinical Pharmacist
            • Ms. Leena Amine , Manager –Poison Control Center
            • Dr. Nasser Haidar, Senior Consultant Pediatric Emergency Center Al Saad
            • Pro. Guillaume Alinier, Senior Consultant, HMC?
            • Ms. Nora Senda – Director of Nursing-Pediatric Emergency Center Al Saad

            View the Speakers Download the Program

            Register Now