Tag: general practice

Feb 25 2021

Reflections

When physicians’ families give too much

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Every medical family’s elasticity and willingness keeps the medical system running.

Feb 11 2021

Primary Care, Reflections

More than “just a family doctor”

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To be a family physician you need to be time-efficient yet comprehensive, a humble team player and a fierce advocate, an expert in communication, with a working knowledge of…well... a...

Oct 13 2020

Reflections

The system is me too…

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I am the family doctor of 550 patients who live in the Atikamekw community of Manawan. I want to tell them, "I believe you and I am so sorry."

Oct 17 2019

Reflections

Why the MCC Qualifying Examination Part II still matters

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Maureen Topps is the Executive Director and CEO of the Medical Council of Canada.   Nothing matters more in my role than helping Canadian and international medical graduates succeed as they...

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...

May 17 2019

Reflections

Someone call the real doctor

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Mark Speechley is a Professor of Epidemiology at Western University   The age-old debate over who should be addressed as ‘doctor’ lives again in recent letters to CMAJ. Of course,...

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...

Nov 15 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy: an asset in medical education

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Mohamad Matout is a Psychiatry Resident (R1) at McGill University   The debate regarding what should future doctors be learning during medical school is sensitive and convoluted. During the four years in which...

Feb 03 2018

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Early Career Research in Primary Care Medicine in Switzerland

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He’s currently also Chair of the Jury for the National Research Award of...

Aug 06 2017

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Rediscovering scholarship in family medicine

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Have we lost something in the success of academic family medicine? We...

Jul 19 2017

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Rediscovering enjoyment of general practice – SAPC Day 2

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Was I wrong! Pioneering Professional Practice doesn’t sound like the most stimulating...

Jul 17 2017

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Multimorbidity and the challenges of primary care practice at SAPC Day 1

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Shakespeare’s Warwickshire was the background to last week’s 46th Annual Scientific Meeting...

Apr 02 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Medical Moms’ toddlers tantrum too

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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!...

Mar 04 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Postmodern academic general practice: examining continuity of care

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Sir Denis Pereira Gray, OBE, is a consultant at St Leonard’s Research Practice, Exeter, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom   A few weeks...