Author: CMAJ

Feb 14 2018

Reflections

Ontario’s Pre-residency program for International Medical Graduates could be designed to be more effective

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Mehdi Aloosh is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine resident (R1) at McMaster University and a graduate of medicine from Tehran University and master’s in surgical education from McGill University...

Feb 13 2018

Editors' Blog

Mountain rescue doctor: a different life

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   A normal day for Dr. Pierre Pili may involve being helicoptered up...

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...

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 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 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...

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 12 2017

Medical Dispatches

White Coat Warm heArt: unleash your inner artist

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Dr. Carol Ann Courneya is an Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the University of British Columbia For the past eight years, the Canadian Conference in Medical Education (CCME) has...

Nov 10 2017

Medical Dispatches

Getting on top of antimicrobial resistance: how to make a business case for an inpatient antimicrobial stewardship program

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Nicole Le Saux is Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Ottawa *   As physicians we should be concerned about the inappropriate use of antibiotics....

Nov 05 2017

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care

Giving place a chance: celebrating rural family medicine in Marathon

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Barbara Zelek is Associate Professor and Co-Chair for the Section of Family Medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine   Marathon, a rural community on the North shore of...

Oct 27 2017

Reflections

How to build brain resilience

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Larry W. Chambers is Research Director at McMaster University’s Niagara Regional Campus, School of Medicine   Eric Larson committed his career to researching how to delay and prevent Alzheimer’s disease,...

Oct 23 2017

Reflections

Holding public research universities to account on global health

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Catherine Whicher is a graduate student of Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Varoon Mathur is a Software Engineering/Data Science student at the University...