All Episodes

S5 Ep16: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy - Improving the Patient Experience featuring Dr Graham Bergstra

S5 Ep15: How health data "stewardship" can drive sustainable healthcare in Canada featuring Anderson Chuck, the President and CEO of CIHI

S5 Ep14: “The best rural emergency medicine course hands down” featuring Dr. Jel Coward and Dr. Rebecca Lindley from the CARE course

S5 Ep13: Herding Cats and Steering Ships - Dr. Ronald Chapman

S5 Ep12: Medicine at the Edge Revisited featuring Dr. Ray Markham (originally released Jan 24, 2025)

S5 Ep11: Hope Air - providing life-saving healthcare access and equity for rural communities featuring Mark Rubinstein

S5 Ep10: Kudos and Lullabies – delivering high-impact, large-scale improvement featuring Dr. Kalah Blackstock

S5 Ep9: Creating capacity "upstream". Keeping COPD patients out of hospital and in the community featuring Donna Jouantapp, Lina Alsakran and Dr. Zoe Pullan

S5 Ep8: “Focus on your North Star” - Building Macro-support for Physician-Led Healthcare Quality Improvement featuring Cindy Myles

S5 Ep7: The Success Story of Pathways featuring Drs. Kathleen Ross and Tracy Monk

S5 Ep6: Building Safer Patient Care featuring Christina Krause from Health Quality BC

S5 Ep5: Reducing hospital admissions for mental health crises by bridging hospital and community care featuring Alanna Summers, Jennifer Sandberg and Jane Dolan

S5 Ep4: "Taking a bite out of health inequity" featuring Dr. Diana Bark and Lara Frederick

S5 Ep3: Optimizing Visiting Specialist Clinics and Equitable Care featuring Dr. Angela How

S5 Ep2: With Great Data Comes Great Responsibility featuring Dr. Cole Stanley and Gayle Grout from Health Data Coalition

S5 Ep1: Goodbye Season 4, Hello Season 5!

S4 Ep20: What the Mayo Clinic Gets Right featuring Drs. Kalah Blackstock and Dr. John Hwang

S4 Ep19: Order in the Face of Wildfire Chaos featuring Gloria Hertz and John Coyne

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

S4 Ep17: Care in the Cells – Improving medical care for those in short term police custody featuring Dr. Michelle Brousson

S4 Ep16: Busting Myths around Physician Leadership featuring Dr. Gurpreet Narang

S4 Ep15: The Power of Superconnection featuring Dr. Lawrence Yang

S4 Ep14: Violence and Mental Health. Advocating for Mental Health in the North featuring Dr. Barb Kane

S4 Ep13: Wraparound care for Alcohol Use Disorder in the Emergency Department featuring Dr. Aron Zuidhof and Dorrie Fasick

S4 Ep12: From Tiny Acorns - The Amazing Origin Story of BC’s Physician Quality Improvement Program featuring Dr. Curt Smecher

S4 Ep11: The Good and Wise Lead QI Lives. Special "Mic-Swap" Episode with Guest Host Dr. Gurpreet Narang and featuring Dr. Shyr Chui

S4 Ep10: Improving Access to Emergency Care for West Coast Indigenous Communities featuring Dr. Jim Christenson

S4 Ep9: Continuing Medicine at the Edge featuring Dr. Ray Markham

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

S4 Ep7: Medicine at the edge featuring Dr. Ray Markham

S4 Ep6: A beer a day doesn't keep the doctor away featuring Dr. Damian Fay

S4 Ep5: Finding purpose in Quality Improvement featuring Dr. Daisy Dulay.

S4 Ep4: What Matters to You? Maternity Nurses in Smithers BC featuring Dr. Kate Niethammer.

S4 Ep3: The Great X-Ray Bake Off – Improving Joy at Work one cookie at a time - featuring James Cheesman

S4 Ep2: Putting Patients at the Centre featuring Kim Eggers

S4 Ep1: Special Episode: Northern Health’s new CEO - the first 9 months featuring Ciro Panessa

S3 Ep9: Deanna reflects on her favorite 3 episodes from the last 3 seasons of Qualitycast North

S3 Ep8: Mind Space. Building successful skills for wellbeing across British Columbia with Dr. Fiona Petigara

S3 Ep7: Introducing Ketamine Infusion Therapy for Refractory Depression featuring Dr. Darren Jakubec

S3 Ep6: Maintaining Physician Quality and the Provincial College – Featuring Dr. Patrick Rowe, Registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (CPSBC)

S3 Ep5: Have you tried turning it off and on again? Healthcare IT systems, interoperability, and quality - featuring Dr. Bill Clifford

S3 Ep4: Send in the drones! Cutting edge rural medicine featuring Dr. John Pawlovich and Sandy Lee

S3 Ep3: While your doctor’s caring for you, who’s caring for your Doctor? - Avoiding physician burn out – featuring Dr. Ingrid Cosio

S3 Ep2: Why better medicine for Indigenous peoples is better medicine for all. Featuring Dr. Todd Alec and Dr. Sheona Mitchell-Foster

S3 Ep1: Playing hide and seek with the appendix, featuring Carly Phinney and Karina Hansen

S2 Ep11: Is it a true penicillin allergy? How penicillin allergy de-labelling is making care safer and more effective – featuring Dr. Tiffany Wong

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)

S2 Ep9: Safe and supportive opioid prescribing for chronic pain – featuring Dr. Shannon Douglas

S2 Ep8: Maintaining quality medical education in the Northern Medical Program – featuring Dr. Paul Winwood

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

S2 Ep6: Implementing a collaborative maternity model in Dawson Creek, BC- featuring Dr. Magda Du Plessis

S2 Ep5: Addressing implicit biases through reflective practice to improve cultural safety and humility- featuring Dr. Danette Dawkin

S2 Ep4: Leadership for healthcare quality - featuring Cathy Ulrich, CEO of Northern Health

S2 Ep3: Improving cultural safety and humility; the role of medical leadership - featuring Dr. Helene Smith

S2 Ep2: Bringing advanced cardiovascular life support recertification training to the Stikine Health Centre - Featuring Dr. Breanne Abbott

S2 Ep2: Bringing advanced cardiovascular life support recertification training to the Stikine Health Centre - Featuring Dr. Breanne Abbott

S2 Ep1: 1: Development of an intubation checklist for Emergency physicians- featuring Dr. Herman Johal

S1 Ep11: Season 1 Recap and season 2 teaser

S1 Ep10: Chasing the sharper image - improving image quality in the MRI department at UHNBC in Prince George, BC. featuring Dr. Shyr Chui

S1 Ep9: Acing the A1C; improving management of diabetes at the Northern Roots Primary Care Clinic in Smithers, BC - featuring Dr. Kalah Blackstock

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

S1 Ep7: Humility is the key. Incorporating the patient and family perspective in improving healthcare quality – featuring patient advocate Duane Jackson

S1 Ep6: Keeping patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) out of hospital and in the community revisited – featuring Dr. Denise McLeod

S1 Ep5: Seeing clearly in the Emergency Department. Raising quality and streamlining visits for patients with eye complaints – featuring Dr. Matthew Wahab

S1 Ep4: More than just a pretty picture. Getting the right x-rays first time, every time – Featuring Dr. Joe Costa

S1 Ep3: Long Distance Medicine. Setting up a rural specialist tele-kidney care service from scratch – featuring Dr. Anurag Singh

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

S1 Ep1: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Group Medical Visits; leveraging patient education to reduce hospital admissions and emergency room visits