Delivering Change - Association of Ontario Midwives

Trade show opportunity hoursThe AOM conference tradeshow is amarketplace for delegates to view andpurchase professional and personalproducts and gather important information.Expanding Your Practice?Interview space will be made available tomidwifery practices at the conference onMay 19. Contact events@aom.on.ca toreserve time for your practice. Practicesmust make their own arrangements inadvance to meet with applicants.Exhibitors (to date):• Bayer Health Care• EatRight Ontario• Healthcare Insurance Reciprocalof Canada (HIROC)• HUB International Ontario Limited• Morneau Shepell• Progenics Cord Blood Cryobank• Regional Health AuthorityCentral Manitoba Inc.• The Stevens Company Limited• Wellpath ClinicSilent AuctionMidwives are invited to donate itemsfor a silent auction to take place duringthe conference.Items will be on display during theconference and the winners will beannounced during the conferencewrap-up. All proceeds will be directedto the Ghislaine Francoeur Foundationfor Midwifery in Haiti. Personal itemssuch as artwork and crafts areespecially encouraged.Contact events@aom.on.ca with anyquestions or to register your donation.Sponsorsplatinum LevelGold Levelsilver Level2 Delivering Change : Strengthening Maternal-Newborn Care in Ontario l 27th Annual AOM General Meeting & Conference l May 16-19, 2011

Conference Schedule (continued)2:00 pm – 2:45 pmMidwifery Hospital Integration:Working Across Multiple Challengesand PerspectivesPanelists: Katrina Kilroy RM, AOM President;E.Douglas Bell, MD, FRCSC, AssociateExecutive Director and Managing Director,Risk Management Services, The CanadianMedical Protective Association; Bill Mundle,MD, RCPSC Specialist, Chair, Section ofObstetrics and Gynecology Ontario MedicalAssociation; Moderator:In this panel, representatives from theAOM, CMPA and OMA will focus on therelationship between physicians andmidwives in hospitals. Panelists willdiscuss how midwives and physicianscan work across differences andperspectives to ensure optimal careto women and newborns.2:45 pm – 3:15 pmCoffee Break and Marketplace3:15 pm – 4:00 pmExternal Cephalic Version – WhatCan We Tell Women About Timing –Findings from the Early ECV Trials.Eileen Hutton RM, BSC, MScN, PhD,Associate Professor, Obstetrics andGynecology, Assistant Dean, MidwiferyEducation Program, McMaster University4:00 pm – 4:45 pmPatient Centred, Cost-Effective,Evidence-Based: What MidwivesNeed to Know About the ExcellentCare for All Act (ECFAA)Jillian Paul, Project Lead, Excellent Care forAll Strategy, MOHLTC; Vicki VanWagner RM,PhD (cand), Associate Professor, MidwiferyEducation Program, Ryerson UniversityThe new ECFAA legislation, which cameinto effect in June 2010, has created a newset of obligations for all Ontario hospitals.The legislation aims to improve patientcare in hospital and stands to have apositive impact on improving maternaland newborn care in Ontario. This sessionwill look at the legislation and its potentialto both support normal birth and decreaseunnecessary interventions.5:00 pm – 6:00 pmRefreshments & Resources:Preceptor Appreciation EventCome explore the resources thatare available to you in your workas clinical teachers.Meet your Preceptor Support teamand see a demonstration of how thePreceptor Support website works.Wine and Cheese to be served.7:00 pm – 1:00 amBanquet Dinner and Midwives MingleFollowing a lovely gala dinner in theCentre/ East Ballroom, socialize withyour colleagues and get ready to dancethe night away.Dinner and Mingle can be purchasedseparately by delegates.Thursday, May 197:30 am – 8:30 amConference RegistrationBreakfast for Conference Delegates7:30 am – 8:30 amStudent BreakfastA special event for students. MeetAOM Board Members and preceptors.Guest Speaker: Bridget Lynch RM, PresidentInternational Confederation of Midwives8:30 am – 9:15 amLessons Learned: College Complaints& AOM ResourcesAndrea Lennox, BHSc, RM, President,College of Midwives of Ontario, RemiEjuwunmi RM, Chair of AOM Insurance andRisk Management Program Committee9:15 am – 10:00 amAn Interdisciplinary, MultifacetedIntervention to Reduce CaesareanSection Rates in a Low Risk Population:A Process and Outcome EvaluationCarol Cameron RM, MA; Ivy Bourgeault PhDThis presentation will report on thepreliminary findings from a multidisciplinaryteam of health and social scienceresearchers and hospital and communitybased maternity care collaborators whoare evaluating a range of interventionsthat curb high risk care in low riskhealthy women.10:00 am – 10:15 amCoffee Break10:15 am – 10:45 amA Legal Review of Recent ObstetricalMalpractice CasesFrank McLaughlin LLB, Litigation Partner,McCarthy Tetrault LLP.10:45 am – 11:45 pmThe Birth Centres Movement: Past, Presentand Forging the FuturePanelists: Rebecca Wood RM; EmmanuelleHebert SF, MA, CAM Board Member,Registered Midwife Advisory Committeeof the Society of Obstetricians andGynaecologists of Canada Member,Professor –Midwifery program atUniversité du Québec à Trois-Rivières ;Judy Rogers RM, MA, AOM Birth CentresWorking Group Member, AssociateProfessor, Midwifery Education Program,Ryerson University; Chris Sternberg, RM.The birth centre movement, as an echo ofthe movement that regulated midwifery,is rolling out across Canada. There arecurrently ten birth centres operating inQuebec, one slated to open in Manitoba, andburgeoning political pressure to establishthem in Ontario. Midwives from Ontario,Quebec and Manitoba will discuss theevolution of the birth centre movement,challenges from within and outside theprofession that have been faced, and whatthe future of birth centres in Ontario holds.11:45 am – 12:45 pmLunch and Marketplace12:45 pm – 1:30 pmCONCURRENT SESSIONS 11A Group Antenatal Care: An AlternativeApproach to Midwifery CareC. Cameron, RM., M.A.; M. Rekai Nuttall, H. BAS.Group antenatal care model, implementation,and impact on client care. Discussionof challenges and opportunities for practicesusing the group model, and summaryof preliminary research from case study.1B Oxytocin Induction and Augmentation:Tips and TricksHelen McDonald RM , M.H.Sc., AssociateProfessor, Midwifery Education Program,McMaster University1C Caring for Clients With LanguageBarriers: Strategies to ProvidingAppropriate Care when ProfessionalInterpretation is UnavailableManavi Handa, RM, MHSc, Chair AOMDiversity Work Group, AOM CPG Work GroupMember, AOM CPD Work Group Member,Assistant Professor, Midwifery EducationProgram, Ryerson University; Wendy WongRM, Diversity Work Group member6 Delivering Change : Strengthening Maternal-Newborn Care in Ontario l 27th Annual AOM General Meeting & Conference l May 16-19, 2011