Category: Editors’ Blog

Jan 30 2015

Watch the movie — become a family physician

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Yes, its good! It’s a fast-moving portrayal of family practice as a...

Jan 13 2015

Editors' Blog

Je suis Charlie

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Driving across France yesterday, “Je suis Charlie” was everywhere. As I skirted...

Dec 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Happy Universal Health Coverage Day

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ Today, 12/12/14, sees 533 partners in 103 countries participating in events to mark the first ever World Universal Health Coverage Day. Supported...

Dec 08 2014

Editors' Blog

The most extraordinary conference I’ve ever been to: Dotmed2014

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK At Dotmed2014 “The creative medical conference” everyone present seemed to be just...

Nov 29 2014

Editors' Blog

The pestilence that stalks in the darkness: an allegory

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Ken Flegel is senior editor, Research, at CMAJ; an internist at Royal Victoria Hospital; and a Professor of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal Readers will have observed that...

Nov 28 2014

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reflections on the NAPCRG Annual Meeting

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Guidelines Victor Montori and France Légaré raised interesting points about guidelines. Victor pointed...

Nov 19 2014

Editors' Blog

#FactsOverFear at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association

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Erin Russell is Assistant Editor at CMAJ, currently attending the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) in New Orleans Along with CMAJ’s editorial fellow, Moneeza Walji,...

Oct 31 2014

Editors' Blog, Patients' blog

Run in the dark

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK “Unbreakable” is the life story of Mark Pollock, an athlete, adventurer and...

Oct 30 2014

Editors' Blog

Defending the political prescription for obesity

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ There’s a quote from the film ‘When Harry Met Sally‘, (Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal) that I always thought was rather profound. One...

Oct 29 2014

Editors' Blog

10 things I learned from @kevinmd about why physicians should actively participate on social media

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Matthew Stanbrook (right in picture) is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, currently at the CHEST 2014 annual meeting in Austin, Texas. While social media and its intersection with medicine may...

Oct 23 2014

Editors' Blog

Medical innovation or a risk to responsible clinical care?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The “Medical Innovation Bill” could radically change the way doctors make treatment...

Oct 08 2014

Editors' Blog

Why Jamaicans dominate sprinting and other wisdom from the BASEM/FESM conference 2014

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK, and recently in Edinburgh for the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine...

Oct 06 2014

Editors' Blog

Excellence and Impact in Oxford

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Energised, refreshed, and inspired. The National Institute of Health Research, School for...