Louise Cassidy Awarded Resident Innovation Fund

Congratulations to RCPS-EM resident, Louise Cassidy, who was chosen as a recipient of the Resident Innovation Fund from Resident Doctors of BC! The award of $2,500 is for her project “Post-shift road safety in British Columbia Medical Residents”. Louise developed and advanced this from an initial idea to a research project during the DEM “NERD Block”.

 

Post-shift road safety in British Columbia Medical Residents

  • Residents are routinely expected to work multiple extended shifts each month. While no Canadian data currently exists on this topic, data from the United States demonstrates that for every additional extended shift scheduled per month, interns had an increased monthly rate of a crash on the commute home from work.  The aim of this project is to determine the proportion of medical residents in British Columbia who have experienced an unsafe driving incident while commuting home from work after both regular and extended-length shifts.

 

Great work, Louise!