Month: April 2016

Apr 20 2016

Student Humanities Blog

On the Nobel Laureates and Medicine: The Secret to an Extraordinary Career

No Comments

Brandon Tang University of Toronto Class of 2018 In the same way that you should not buy a lottery ticket and expect to win, you should not become a scientist...

Apr 20 2016

Editors' Blog, Reflections

A young doctor’s death

1 Comment

Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   They found the body. A short paragraph buried in the newspaper. Dr...

Apr 18 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

The evolving face of public health crises in Canada: Are we ready?

No Comments

Nicole Kain is a PhD Candidate in Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta Cindy Jardine is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of...

Apr 14 2016

Reflections

Time to transform the medical curriculum in Aboriginal Health

No Comments

Meghna Rajaprakash is a medical student at the University of Toronto (class of 2016)   The recent Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report (2015) called upon medical schools “to require...

Apr 12 2016

Reflections

Hacking medical devices

No Comments

Aedan Coffey is a consultant electronic design engineer working in Ireland   We got hacked. Some nice person somewhere in the world managed to get into the little black box...

Apr 10 2016

Medical Dispatches

We want to come home

17 Comments

Viktoria Koskenoja is an emergency medicine resident in her fourth year of the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency   Haley K. Cochrane is  an emergency medicine resident in her second year...

Apr 09 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A BC psychiatrist’s experience of providing psychiatric services to 4 Northern communities

No Comments

Peter Uhlmann is a semi-retired psychiatrist from Powell River, BC. He works as a locum consultant psychiatrist to several Northern communities.   In 2004 I started providing psychiatric locum service...

Apr 08 2016

Editors' Blog

Feeling rejected

1 Comment

Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   One of the best pieces of research with which I was involved...

Apr 04 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Die Alone

1 Comment

Beatrice Preti McMaster University Class of 2017 I hate the way some people die When no one’s there to scream or cry I hate the way they die alone As...

Apr 04 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Academic primary care: needed now more than ever

No Comments

Joanne Reeve is an Associate Clinical Professor in Primary Care at Warwick Medical School in the UK, and the Chair of the Society for Academic Primary Care   A recent...

Apr 02 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Medical Moms’ toddlers tantrum too

No Comments

Carrie Ladd is a part time general practitioner in the UK National Health Service, a spare time RCGP Clinical Fellow in Perinatal Mental Health, and a full time mum…doing overtime!...