Month: January 2018

Jan 31 2018

Doctors' health, Reflections

Remaining silent is a choice: reflections of a medical student on medical student death

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Hissan Butt is a medical student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario   I recently learned that two Canadian medical students died in the past three weeks. Little is known...

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...

Jan 29 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Medicine, Unbundled

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Heritage House, 2017) Imagine working in a...

Jan 26 2018

Reflections

A 360 Degree View of Organ and Tissue Donation

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Meagan Mahoney is a pediatric intensivist at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary Jennifer Woolfsmith is Mackenzy’s mom Matthew Weiss is a pediatric intensivist at the Centre Mère-Enfant Soleil du CHU...

Jan 25 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The patient experience and the coming of a new physician

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Cathy Li is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Toronto   “Doctor, what do you recommend for my grandmother’s pancreatic tumour?” My heart was fluttering nervously as...

Jan 22 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Overdosed

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Usman Khan is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa Tharshika Thangarasa is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa...

Jan 17 2018

Reflections

A community-based program to support refugees and engage medical students

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Mandi Irwin is a family physician at the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Newcomer Health Clinic, in Halifax, NS Elizabeth Munn is a medical student at Dalhousie University   Hamid Abdihalim...

Jan 16 2018

Doctor Mom

Doctor Mom reflects on her son’s experience of peer victimization

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Doctor Mom is a physician who lives in Ontario   This week CMAJ published a research study looking at how peer victimization in early childhood is related to mental health...

Jan 11 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Homelessness and health: an elective experience

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Maria Powell is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at the University of Calgary who graduated from medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2017   Admittedly, my social histories used to consist...

Jan 08 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The end of the long adolescence

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Sterling Sparshu is an Early-Career Physician who graduated from medical school and completed their residency at the University of Calgary in 2017   As I graduate from my residency program, I...

Jan 04 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Mount Everest

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Eleni Levreault is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Ottawa       They said medicine, when you begin, Is like staring Mount Everest in...

Jan 01 2018

Student Humanities Blog

For the love of surgery

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Hely Shah is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Alberta   As a medical student in pre-clerkship, I was known to my classmates as...