Month: November 2016

Nov 24 2016

Reflections

Trump’s ‘ignore-ance’ will harm our health

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   In 2002 Donald Rumsfeld, then US Secretary of Defence,...

Nov 15 2016

Primary Care

East of Last Chance: finding research paradise on the high plains

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John M (Jack) Westfall is a Professor of Family Medicine and Director of the High Plains Research Network. Dr Westfall will be speaking at the forthcoming North American Primary Care...

Nov 15 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reflections on Day Two of #NAPCRG2016

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ. She is currently attending the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) annual meeting in Colorado Springs, CO.   In the plenary session...

Nov 15 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Constriction

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Jeremy Zung University of Toronto Class of 2016 Taut sheets as cotton fetters In curtained cloister bare Enshroud the shrivelled limbs Whose fingers flex in fetal curl ‘Round liquid sleep....

Nov 14 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reflections on Day One of #NAPCRG2016

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He is currently attending the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) annual...

Nov 13 2016

Primary Care

Creating a “community of solution” for refugees: diversity in approaches of local research responses

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Kim Griswold is Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, and Public Health and Health Professions at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Buffalo, New York. Dr Griswold will...

Nov 13 2016

Primary Care

Expanding the evidence-base to offer guidance on best health care for immigrants and refugees

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Kevin Pottie is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Epi & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, as well as co-Chair of the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee...

Nov 12 2016

Primary Care

Research to inform a patient centred health system for refugees

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Mark Harris is Foundation Professor of General Practice and Executive Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Dr...

Nov 12 2016

Primary Care

The scope of the international refugee crisis and challenges for Primary Care

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Fern R. Hauck is Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. Dr Hauck will be speaking at the forthcoming North American Primary Care Research...

Nov 09 2016

Editors' Blog

The world needs more Canada

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Yes I did wake up at 3 am today and think, “I’ll just check the U.S. election results…” and boy do I...