Category: Editors’ Blog

Aug 19 2014

Climate change and the circumpolar experience

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Kirsten Patrick is a Deputy Editor at CMAJ, currently at the IEA World Congress of Epidemiology in Anchorage, Alaska The 20th International Epidemiology Association World Congress being held in...

Aug 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Lessons on healthy ageing from the 15th FINA World Masters Swimming Competition

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Kirsten Patrick is a Deputy Editor at CMAJ I’ve come back to competitive swimming in the last couple of years, as a Master. Although I enjoyed a youth spent in...

Aug 06 2014

Editors' Blog

Children on Mont Blanc, the Commonwealth Games, and a memorial service for Stewart Hillis

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Taking your nine year old to climb Mont Blanc (altitude 4810m), seeking...

Aug 01 2014

Editors' Blog

Physician-centred health care

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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 29 2014

Editors' Blog

A peek inside the world of medical illustration

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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 24 2014

Editors' Blog

Looking back on my year as an editorial fellow

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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

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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 10 2014

Editors' Blog

Young doctors’ aspirations, gender balance and medical training

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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 03 2014

Editors' Blog

CMAJ.ca: truly international

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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...

Jun 26 2014

Editors' Blog

The World Cup, injury, arthritis and treatment

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Its not just the football. Sports docs watch the World Cup medical stories with great interest—which players are injured, what happened and how they are managed. Luis Suárez, suddenly infamous,...

Jun 14 2014

Editors' Blog

Cycling, cancer, doping, and danger

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The photograph in the Globe and Mail was impressive. Thousands on the Ride...

Jun 13 2014

Editors' Blog

Lessons for doctors on patient involvement in research from day 2 of the Ca-PRI Conference

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Domhnall MacAuley is an associate editor on CMAJ, currently at the The Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) conference in Winnipeg Derek Stewart, a patient advocate, gently gave...

Jun 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Cancer in Primary Care—day 1 of the Ca-PRI Conference

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Domhnall MacAuley is an associate editor on CMAJ, currently at the The Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) conference in Winnipeg Cancer is now a major primary...

Jun 10 2014

Editors' Blog

Voluntourism – call it a spade and use it carefully

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Dr Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to a great workshop, organized by the CMA’s Public Health division, aimed at...