Safe injection site and prescription heroin

[Guest Ollie]

Hello there!

 

I thought I would start a new thread for this discussion which began in the "Is the sky the limit..." thread.

 

So here's the deal: Vancouver has a safe injection site. You can find some facts about it here: www.vch.ca/sis/

 

To briefly summarize, the SIS allows addicts to inject their own drugs in a supervised environment. It provides access to counselling, social services, and treatment. The site sees approximately 450 injections per day (I have heard anecdotally that the use of the site is above what they anticipated, and the mayor is looking into opening a second site). There have been 25 occasions where staff have been able to intervene in a OD. This site is funded by the BC Ministry of Health.

 

The safe injection site is not to be confused with the NAOMI reserach project. (North American Opiate Medication Initiative). If found the info for NAOMI at www.ofcmhap.on.ca/addicti...ation.htm.

 

NAOMI is a research project occurring in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. It is funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research (ie the federal government), and is to be carried out by researchers at UBC, UofT, and U of Montreal. Its purpose is "to determine whether the closely supervised provision of injectable, pharmaceutical-grade heroin (in combination with oral methadone) is more effective than methadone therapy alone in recruiting, retaining and benefiting chronic, opiate-dependent, injection drug users (IDUs) who are resistant to current standard treatment options."

 

I can't find any current info as to whether this study has actually started. The researchers want to use a site on East Hastings, 6 blocks from the SIS. I also can't find any info on what Moo stated about it displacing a Christian charity. The only thing I could find is that the proposed site is next door to a social housing project for recovering alcohol and drug addicts.

 

So there are some facts. Let me just say that I am in no way an expert on this. I am just a resident of Vancouver, and I am saddened by the deterioration of the Downtown Eastside, and I am glad to see attempts at solving the many problems facing the area.

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<pagetext>I am in the process of updating my CV and was just wondering what the general opinion is about putting shadowing/elective experience on your CV. I am in first year and have shadowed a few doctors on my own time, and have also done my 12 hour elective in endocrinology. We don't actually do *real* electives until third year, so I was wondering if I should bother putting these small experiences on my CV.

[Guest Ian Wong]

You could leave them on for now, and then tailor and prune them appropriately once you figure out what specialties you are applying for.

 

I honestly don't see much benefit to putting these electives on your CV (the ones that truly matter are those done as a senior medical student, particularly if you gain a strong letter of reference), unless you are trying to show that you've really been committed to a specialty over a long period of time (and even then, it probably doesn't matter much, if at all).

 

Ian

[Guest Akane200]

12 hours of elective... is that like only 3 half days? I think such shadowing experiences of such a really short duration does not warrant a mention in your CV as a first year student unless it is an ongoing longitudinal elective for a good majority of the whole year or something informal for the whole summer. I don't mean to sound insensitive, but I didn't think that such sporadic shadowing (a few hours in this, a few hours in that) could be counted as an "elective" (informal or otherwise) at all. That's just "shadowing" done on your own leisure time to me. *shrug* But maybe it's just me.

 

But real electives (including informal ones) are important on your CV, I think. It may not make a big difference, but it also shows that you've done something constructive with your time as well.

 

Good luck.

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