Author: CMAJ

Jul 12 2019

Editors' Blog

From vision to action in primary care

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He recently attended the Society for Academic Primary Care annual conference in Exeter, England.   The declaration...

Jul 10 2019

Editors' Blog

Primary care: arriving or departing?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He recently attended the Society for Academic Primary Care annual conference in Exeter, England.   Resources for...

Nov 15 2018

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

NAPCRG 2018: meaning in work and friendship in colleagues

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   Research conferences should be an opportunity to gain insights from discussion and...

Oct 26 2018

Medical Dispatches

The USMCA, biologics and Canada’s health system

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Matthew Yau and Krish Bilimoria are medical students in the Class of 2022 at the University of Toronto   Yosef Ellenbogen is a medical student in the Class of 2020...

Oct 22 2018

Primary Care

Strengthening ties between academic primary care institutions

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Nicolas Senn is professor and director of the Institute of family medicine at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland   In Lausanne, Switzerland, we are in the process of transforming...

Oct 09 2018

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A long way from home

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Alastair McAlpine is a fellow in paediatric infectious diseases at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver   People sometimes ask me, “What’s the difference between medicine in Vancouver and medicine in...

Sep 26 2018

Reflections

We need more nutrition education in medical schools

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Dr Margaret Rundle is a Family Physician practicing in Scarborough, Ontario   There is little dispute among care providers that a person’s dietary habits influence preventative and treatment outcomes. Every...

Sep 05 2018

Medical Dispatches

So you want to build a health app, eh?

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Katherine Atkinson is a PhD student at the Karolinska Institutet in the Department of Public Health Science. Cameron Bell has a B. Eng from McGill and is the lead technical...

Aug 27 2018

Reflections

The suburbs are not alright

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Kevin Lam is a third-year medical student at McMaster University Lawrence Loh is Associate Medical Officer of Health at Peel Region, Ontario, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana...

Aug 10 2018

Reflections

Ghost boy

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Denis Daneman is Professor and Chair Emeritus in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, and Paediatrician-in-Chief Emeritus at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto   Here’s...

Jun 08 2018

Doctor Mom

Doctor Mom considers the future of school sex ed in Ontario

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“That sounds like a lot of work. It must be very hard to get pregnant.”

May 29 2018

Editors' Blog, Reflections

Why I called André Picard’s column on mental illness a nothingburger

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   A week ago, André Picard published a column in the Globe and Mail entitled “How many people actually suffer from mental illness?”...

May 10 2018

Reflections

CaRMS: the fortress between medical school and residency

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Jessica Dunkley is a PGY-4 in dermatology at UBC. She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Alberta   Every year, Match Day for CaRMS brings back heart...

May 04 2018

Medical Dispatches

Dentists take a bite out of unnecessary prescribing, procedures and testing

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Dr. Susan Sutherland is Chief of Dentistry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and President of the Canadian Association of Hospital Dentists     Dentists in community practices usually work in...