Month: August 2016

Aug 22 2016

Medical Dispatches

Global Health Diplomacy: reflections on a graduate course

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Daniela Steyn is a Family Physician in Ontario   Alumni of The Graduate Institute Geneva include former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. It seemed to me to be...

Aug 19 2016

Reflections

Training the Next Generation of Canadian Clinician Scientists: Challenges and Opportunities on the Road Ahead

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Charles Yin in a MD/PhD Candidate at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University   On June 18, 2015 the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced...

Aug 19 2016

Reflections

The Republican Club

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Richard Doan is a Psychiatrist with Inner City Health Associates and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario   During my physical assessment course as...

Aug 16 2016

Reflections

Is there a genetic holy grail for athletes?

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Alejandro Lucia is Professor of Physiology at the European University of Madrid. He has a particular research interest in endurance sport and exercise physiology Carl Foster is Professor of Sports...

Aug 15 2016

Reflections

Bill C-442 and “Chronic Lyme Disease”: the parallels with “chronic brucellosis”

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Jeremy Devine is a 3rd year Medical Student at The University of Toronto   On May 15th, 2016 the Conference to develop a federal framework on Lyme disease took place...

Aug 14 2016

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

her name is Gaia.

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Adriano Mollica University of Toronto Class of 2019 I look at you, and I wish there was some sort of incantation to whisper that could string together all the fickle...

Aug 10 2016

Medical Dispatches

Anti-doping testing in athletics: standardisation-and-harmonisation negative

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Bill Cuddihy is a former Chief Medical Officer of Athletics Ireland and has been a member of the Anti-Doping Committee of Irish Sports Council since 2007   The doping problem is...

Aug 09 2016

Medical Dispatches

Boxing, brain damage and head protection: why aren’t the boxers at the Olympics wearing head guards?

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Mike Loosemore is Lead Consultant Sports Physician at the English Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health; he is currently at the Rio 2016 Olympics   Have you noticed that the male...

Aug 09 2016

Editors' Blog

The Canadian medics behind the Olympic athletes

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   As the world focuses on the Olympics in Rio, I visited the...

Aug 06 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Dangers

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Kevin Dueck Class of 2016 Western University (Behind a curtain in the Emergency Department) He grabbed me… how could I be so stupid. Grabbed my ponytail… cries and… and slammed...

Aug 04 2016

Editors' Blog

Olympic Legends

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   This week, with  the newspapers full of health scares, doping controversy and...

Aug 04 2016

Medical aid in dying

Think Carefully About Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying

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Jonathan Breslin, PhD, is an Ethicist at the Southlake Regional Health Centre and Mackenzie Health in Ontario   Following the recent passage of Canadian legislation governing assistance in dying many...

Aug 02 2016

Medical Dispatches

Medical Football Team Canada returns from Barcelona with a 14th Place International Ranking and a research award

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Paul Dhillon is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Academic Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan   Twenty-two physicians from across Canada recently left their examination rooms and operating theaters behind for...

Aug 02 2016

Editors' Blog

From data-driven illustrations to gamified neuron mapping

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ and a graduate of the Biomedical Communications program at the University of Toronto I attended the Association of Medical Illustrators’ (AMI) conference...