Tag: medical research

Mar 10 2020

Editors' Blog

Supporting meaningful patient and public involvement in research

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Braden O’Neill is a family doctor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Peter Gill is a Clinician-Investigator in the Division...

Feb 07 2020

Reflections

Is the process of funding Canadian scientific research failing to advance Nobel prize-worthy work?

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Ernest Cutz is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, and a former senior pathologist in the Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine...

Sep 15 2019

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

Mastectomy

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan.     The following was written...

Sep 03 2019

Editors' Blog

The ‘Evidence-Based Medicine movement’ – where to, next?

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Neil Chanchlani is a CMAJ Associate Editor and clinical research fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He recently attended the 8th EBMLive conference in Oxford, England.   All healthcare...

Jan 31 2018

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

The research paper as a Fairy Tale

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   In my capacity as Chair of the Jury for the National Research...

Dec 22 2017

Reflections

50 years of education and research at MUN’s Faculty of Medicine

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Margaret Steele is the Dean of Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) Jim Rourke is a Professor of Family Medicine and a former...

Dec 20 2016

Reflections

The challenge of preventing overdiagnosis

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Iona Heath was a general practitioner in inner-city London for 35 years and is a Past President of the UK Royal College of General Practitioners.  She is a co-chair of...

Apr 08 2016

Editors' Blog

Feeling rejected

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   One of the best pieces of research with which I was involved...

Nov 03 2015

Reflections

On reach, dissemination and engagement: shouldn’t people read the paper?

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Susan E Connolly is a first year PhD candidate at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge, UK. She holds degrees in Veterinary Medicine and Statistics from University College Dublin. She...

Jul 12 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Dangerous ideas

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, recently returned from the Society for Academic Primary Care’s annual conference in Oxford, UK   What sort of research would we be doing...

Mar 11 2015

Editors' Blog

AUDGPI 2015: Health checks, physical activity, prescribing and managing Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Simon Griffin (Cambridge) was the headliner at the Association of University Departments of General...

Mar 10 2015

Editors' Blog

Some thoughts on a future research career

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Speaking to your colleagues at your own national conference, there is no hiding place....