Qualitycast North
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The Qualitycast North podcast showcases Northern British Columbian physicians and healthcare workers and their work in improving the quality of healthcare where they live. In an interview format, our host Dr. Shyr Chui invites guests to talk about their careers in rural medicine, and how they are improving healthcare through innovative quality improvement projects. Episodes are released every 2 weeks.
Qualitycast North is a production of the Northern Health Physician Quality Improvement initiative, and is co-produced by Dr. Shyr Chui, and PQI Coach Lee Cameron. This Initiative is a flagship program of the Specialist Services Committee which represents a collaborative partnership between our provincial government and Doctors of BC, and includes regular representation from the local health authorities.
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S5 Ep15: How health data "stewardship" can drive sustainable healthcare in Canada featuring Anderson Chuck, the President and CEO of CIHI
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May 22, 2026 |
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S5 Ep14: “The best rural emergency medicine course hands down” featuring Dr. Jel Coward and Dr. Rebecca Lindley from the CARE course
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May 15, 2026 |
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S5 Ep13: Herding Cats and Steering Ships - Dr. Ronald Chapman
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May 01, 2026 |
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S5 Ep12: Medicine at the Edge Revisited featuring Dr. Ray Markham (originally released Jan 24, 2025)
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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S5 Ep11: Hope Air - providing life-saving healthcare access and equity for rural communities featuring Mark Rubinstein
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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S5 Ep10: Kudos and Lullabies – delivering high-impact, large-scale improvement featuring Dr. Kalah Blackstock
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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S5 Ep9: Creating capacity "upstream". Keeping COPD patients out of hospital and in the community featuring Donna Jouantapp, Lina Alsakran and Dr. Zoe Pullan
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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S5 Ep8: “Focus on your North Star” - Building Macro-support for Physician-Led Healthcare Quality Improvement featuring Cindy Myles
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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S5 Ep7: The Success Story of Pathways featuring Drs. Kathleen Ross and Tracy Monk
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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S5 Ep6: Building Safer Patient Care featuring Christina Krause from Health Quality BC
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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S5 Ep5: Reducing hospital admissions for mental health crises by bridging hospital and community care featuring Alanna Summers, Jennifer Sandberg and Jane Dolan
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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S5 Ep4: "Taking a bite out of health inequity" featuring Dr. Diana Bark and Lara Frederick
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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S5 Ep3: Optimizing Visiting Specialist Clinics and Equitable Care featuring Dr. Angela How
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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S5 Ep2: With Great Data Comes Great Responsibility featuring Dr. Cole Stanley and Gayle Grout from Health Data Coalition
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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S5 Ep1: Goodbye Season 4, Hello Season 5!
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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S4 Ep20: What the Mayo Clinic Gets Right featuring Drs. Kalah Blackstock and Dr. John Hwang
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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S4 Ep19: Order in the Face of Wildfire Chaos featuring Gloria Hertz and John Coyne
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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S4 Ep18: If I don’t do it, who will?” Improving healthcare quality through openness, community engagement and the wisdom of Grandmothers featuring Nicole Cross
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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S4 Ep17: Care in the Cells – Improving medical care for those in short term police custody featuring Dr. Michelle Brousson
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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S4 Ep16: Busting Myths around Physician Leadership featuring Dr. Gurpreet Narang
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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S4 Ep15: The Power of Superconnection featuring Dr. Lawrence Yang
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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S4 Ep14: Violence and Mental Health. Advocating for Mental Health in the North featuring Dr. Barb Kane
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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S4 Ep13: Wraparound care for Alcohol Use Disorder in the Emergency Department featuring Dr. Aron Zuidhof and Dorrie Fasick
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May 30, 2025 |
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S4 Ep12: From Tiny Acorns - The Amazing Origin Story of BC’s Physician Quality Improvement Program featuring Dr. Curt Smecher
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May 09, 2025 |
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S4 Ep11: The Good and Wise Lead QI Lives. Special "Mic-Swap" Episode with Guest Host Dr. Gurpreet Narang and featuring Dr. Shyr Chui
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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S4 Ep10: Improving Access to Emergency Care for West Coast Indigenous Communities featuring Dr. Jim Christenson
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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S4 Ep9: Continuing Medicine at the Edge featuring Dr. Ray Markham
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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S4 Ep8: Northern BC Canucks visit the IHI Forum featuring Dr. Kalah Blackstock, Dr. Darren Jakubec, Dr. Christin Fabriel-Leclerc, Dr. Ian Schokking and Dr. Omesh Syal
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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S4 Ep7: Medicine at the edge featuring Dr. Ray Markham
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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S4 Ep6: A beer a day doesn't keep the doctor away featuring Dr. Damian Fay
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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S4 Ep5: Finding purpose in Quality Improvement featuring Dr. Daisy Dulay.
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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S4 Ep4: What Matters to You? Maternity Nurses in Smithers BC featuring Dr. Kate Niethammer.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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S4 Ep3: The Great X-Ray Bake Off – Improving Joy at Work one cookie at a time - featuring James Cheesman
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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S4 Ep2: Putting Patients at the Centre featuring Kim Eggers
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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S4 Ep1: Special Episode: Northern Health’s new CEO - the first 9 months featuring Ciro Panessa
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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S3 Ep9: Deanna reflects on her favorite 3 episodes from the last 3 seasons of Qualitycast North
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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S3 Ep8: Mind Space. Building successful skills for wellbeing across British Columbia with Dr. Fiona Petigara
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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S3 Ep7: Introducing Ketamine Infusion Therapy for Refractory Depression featuring Dr. Darren Jakubec
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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S3 Ep6: Maintaining Physician Quality and the Provincial College – Featuring Dr. Patrick Rowe, Registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (CPSBC)
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May 10, 2024 |
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S3 Ep5: Have you tried turning it off and on again? Healthcare IT systems, interoperability, and quality - featuring Dr. Bill Clifford
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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S3 Ep4: Send in the drones! Cutting edge rural medicine featuring Dr. John Pawlovich and Sandy Lee
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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S3 Ep3: While your doctor’s caring for you, who’s caring for your Doctor? - Avoiding physician burn out – featuring Dr. Ingrid Cosio
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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S3 Ep2: Why better medicine for Indigenous peoples is better medicine for all. Featuring Dr. Todd Alec and Dr. Sheona Mitchell-Foster
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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S3 Ep1: Playing hide and seek with the appendix, featuring Carly Phinney and Karina Hansen
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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S2 Ep11: Is it a true penicillin allergy? How penicillin allergy de-labelling is making care safer and more effective – featuring Dr. Tiffany Wong
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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S2 Ep10: Supporting our physicians ongoing passion for quality improvement through the PQI provincial alumni strategy – Featuring Dr. Lawrence Yang and Dr. Hussein Kanji (available June 2, 2023)
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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S2 Ep9: Safe and supportive opioid prescribing for chronic pain – featuring Dr. Shannon Douglas
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May 12, 2023 |
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S2 Ep8: Maintaining quality medical education in the Northern Medical Program – featuring Dr. Paul Winwood
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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S2 Ep7: Virtual follow-up for emergency room visits and how to publish your quality improvement work - featuring Dr. Diala El-Zammar and Dr. Raj Johal
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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S2 Ep6: Implementing a collaborative maternity model in Dawson Creek, BC- featuring Dr. Magda Du Plessis
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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S2 Ep5: Addressing implicit biases through reflective practice to improve cultural safety and humility- featuring Dr. Danette Dawkin
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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S2 Ep4: Leadership for healthcare quality - featuring Cathy Ulrich, CEO of Northern Health
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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S2 Ep3: Improving cultural safety and humility; the role of medical leadership - featuring Dr. Helene Smith
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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S2 Ep2: Bringing advanced cardiovascular life support recertification training to the Stikine Health Centre - Featuring Dr. Breanne Abbott
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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S2 Ep2: Bringing advanced cardiovascular life support recertification training to the Stikine Health Centre - Featuring Dr. Breanne Abbott
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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S2 Ep1: 1: Development of an intubation checklist for Emergency physicians- featuring Dr. Herman Johal
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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S1 Ep11: Season 1 Recap and season 2 teaser
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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S1 Ep10: Chasing the sharper image - improving image quality in the MRI department at UHNBC in Prince George, BC. featuring Dr. Shyr Chui
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May 12, 2022 |
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S1 Ep9: Acing the A1C; improving management of diabetes at the Northern Roots Primary Care Clinic in Smithers, BC - featuring Dr. Kalah Blackstock
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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S1 Ep8: Engineering a win-win for everyone. Reducing hospital re-admissions in the Frail and Elderly population at GR Baker Hospital in Quesnel, BC – featuring Dr. Jon Fine
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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S1 Ep7: Humility is the key. Incorporating the patient and family perspective in improving healthcare quality – featuring patient advocate Duane Jackson
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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S1 Ep6: Keeping patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) out of hospital and in the community revisited – featuring Dr. Denise McLeod
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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S1 Ep5: Seeing clearly in the Emergency Department. Raising quality and streamlining visits for patients with eye complaints – featuring Dr. Matthew Wahab
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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S1 Ep4: More than just a pretty picture. Getting the right x-rays first time, every time – Featuring Dr. Joe Costa
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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S1 Ep3: Long Distance Medicine. Setting up a rural specialist tele-kidney care service from scratch – featuring Dr. Anurag Singh
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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S1 Ep2: All bodies are good bodies; Overcoming weight bias in primary care. How understanding a hidden problem can lead to higher quality care – featuring Dr. Omowumi Iyaoromi
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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S1 Ep1: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Group Medical Visits; leveraging patient education to reduce hospital admissions and emergency room visits
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Nov 03, 2021 |