Author: CMAJ

Aug 01 2014

Editors' Blog

Physician-centred health care

No Comments

Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor, clinical, at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open   As clinicians, we are taught about patient-centred care, where the needs and desires of the patient...

Jul 31 2014

Reflections

What I learned from participating in international medical electives

No Comments

Dr Patrick O’Donnell is a Clinical Fellow in Social Inclusion at the Partnership for Health Equity, a pilot project of the the University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School in Ireland...

Jul 29 2014

Editors' Blog

A peek inside the world of medical illustration

9 Comments

Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ (she is also a trained medical illustrator) Perhaps you’re familiar with the profession, but many are not. Medical illustrators are educated in...

Jul 28 2014

Reflections

Why do Chinese physicians say that they would NOT advise their children to study Medicine?

No Comments

By Deng Luo, MD PhD, Wen-Zhuo Ran, PhD, Yun Sun, MD, PhD, Hua Huang, MD, and  Wang-Yang Yi, MD. Recently, a surprising survey of more than 3860 doctors in China...

Jul 24 2014

Editors' Blog

Looking back on my year as an editorial fellow

1 Comment

Gordon Giddings is the outgoing CMAJ Editorial Fellow (2013-14)   It’s likely that you will hear many different responses from colleagues when you announce to them, after having been in practice...

Jul 23 2014

Editors' Blog

Anticoagulation and atrial fibrillation – more action, less anxiety

No Comments

Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Atrial fibrillation makes me nervous. In the distant past there was only digoxin....

Jul 21 2014

Reflections

Cycling and the middle aged man – more urodynamics than aerodynamics?

No Comments

Last summer, for the third year in a row, more than 4,000 people (mostly middle-aged men) pedaled their ultralight road bikes from downtown Vancouver to downtown Whistler, BC, a whopping...

Jul 18 2014

Reflections

Time to Divest From the Fossil Fuel Industry

4 Comments

By Ilona Hale, MD, David Hale, MSc, Env. Mgmt, Courtney Howard, MD, Warren Bell, MD As physicians we are trained to respond to emergencies – the more serious the diagnosis,...

Jul 17 2014

Reflections

Primary Care and universal health care dreams in ‘Soccer’s Country’

No Comments

Dr Marcelo Garcia Kolling is a GP and primary care academic in Curitiba, Brazil As Brazil prepared for the FIFA World Cup, its people were conflicted between football and needs...

Jul 16 2014

Reflections

Art, science and business: the legacy of the World Cup in Brazil

No Comments

Gustavo Gusso, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of General Practice at University of São Paulo, and the Former President of the Brazilian Society of Family and Community Medicine   “Soccer is...

Jul 15 2014

Medical Dispatches

Proposed changes to Community Health Centres will hurt Primary Care in B.C

3 Comments

Dr. Ryan Herriot, Dr. Steven Persaud, Dr. Rannie Tao, and Dr. Stephanie Stacey are Resident Physicians in Family Medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital, UBC Faculty of Medicine   As family...

Jul 10 2014

Editors' Blog

Young doctors’ aspirations, gender balance and medical training

No Comments

Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Recognising achievement is important. A Fellowship ceremony at a Royal College marks the...

Jul 09 2014

Reflections

The Modern Art of Medicine

No Comments

Guest blogger, Martin Kaminski is a Research Associate in the Gastrointestinal Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and will soon take up a Speciality Training in Internal Medicine at...

Jul 03 2014

Editors' Blog

CMAJ.ca: truly international

No Comments

Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ If you think the majority of web traffic on cmaj.ca comes from Canada, think again. In the past year, our website got...