Month: July 2016

Jul 25 2016

Student Humanities Blog

More than medicine

No Comments

Mary Koziol McGill University Class of 2018 “MARRRIEEEEEEEE!” These enthusiastic greetings solidify Tuesday as my favourite day of week. As I enter the classroom, several of the girls come running...

Jul 19 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Transit

No Comments

Jason Gencher University of Toronto Class of 2018 An etiolated octogenarian calls out, Barely audible beyond his room. He beckons for a small sponge To wet his cracked blue lips....

Jul 18 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Roundup of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) annual meeting

1 Comment

Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   The premier primary care research meeting in the United Kingdom and Ireland,...

Jul 13 2016

Primary Care

International perspectives on academic careers in primary care: the roundup

No Comments

Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   The following brief video summary of the recent International Colloquium on Clinical...

Jul 06 2016

Primary Care

A remarkable turnaround of opportunity for primary care academics

No Comments

Richard Hobbs is Director at the National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR), and Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at Oxford University in England...

Jul 06 2016

Primary Care

A framework for building health research capacity in Ireland

No Comments

Annalisa Montesanti is a Programme Manager at Ireland’s Health Research Board   Health research, and its knowledge application and translation towards more tangible impacts, requires the talent, expertise and ingenuity...

Jul 05 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

‘Next-gen’ leadership in healthcare

1 Comment

Robyn Tamblyn is Scientific Director at the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of...

Jul 05 2016

Primary Care

On the value of the international perspective in supporting primary care

No Comments

Amanda Howe is Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and President-Elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors   I am heading for...

Jul 05 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Reflections on structured PhD training for general practitioners in Ireland

No Comments

Emma Wallace is a Senior Clinical Research fellow in the Health Research Board (HRB) Centre for Primary Care Research at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Medical school...

Jul 04 2016

Primary Care

National Research School in General Practice in Sweden – Building Bridges to Lift a Specialty

No Comments

Lars H Lindholm is Professor and Director at Umeå University, Sweden   In 2009, the Swedish Research Council (SRC) advertised funding for five research schools (SEK 15 million each, about CAD...

Jul 04 2016

Primary Care

A Canadian perspective on training and career support in Family Medicine

No Comments

Wendy Norman is the CIHR and PHAC Chair in Family Planning Public Health Research, and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia  ...

Jul 04 2016

Primary Care

Clinical academic careers in Family Medicine: sharing international experience

No Comments

Tom Fahey is Professor of General Practice in The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a general practitioner in Dublin, Ireland   In late 2015 I was fortunate to...