Community Resources
The below resources have been created or vetted by faculty members in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with the goal of helping to educate patients and the community.
In 2017, Dr. Lindsay Shirreff and Dr. Ally Murji created the Surgical Gynaecology Scorecard for hysterectomy procedures with leadership from Dr. Jodi Shapiro, Dr. Mathew Sermer and Dr. John Kingdom and the support of Sinai Health System and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Toronto. We began this initiative at a single hospital and expanded to include 10 hospitals across four Canadian universities.
As an extension of this quality improvement project, this website aims to bring useful resources from our collaboration to gynaecologists and their patients to improve care. We look forward to adding initiatives in the years to come.
The Toronto Video Atlas of Surgery (TVASurg) is an online, open-access educational platform that incorporates 3D animations as well as real-time surgical footage. The purpose of TVASurg is to disseminate high-quality surgical education in Toronto, as well as nationally and internationally.
TVASurg is supported by biomedical communications specialists, who are professional artists experienced in knowledge translation, and by a team of academic obstetrician-gynaecologists (Dr. Eliane Shore, Dr. Mara Sobel, and Dr. Sebastian Hobson) who are committed to improving the surgical and procedural practices of trainees, physicians, and allied health professionals.
Women’s Health Education Made Simple (WHEMS) was created to help to empower women in understanding more about their mind, body and wellbeing. Having started during a global pandemic, we hope to generate conversations, alleviate stigma and provide tools to help you learn and advocate for your health. By presenting easily accessible, evidence based infographics and videos, our aim is to increase health literacy and advocacy in women across Canada, and around the world.
What started off as a group of three, has now become a voluntary team of dedicated medical students, physicians and allied health members, working together to create evidence-based online learning tools for those who need an easy to understand explanation of various health issues.