Category: Primary Care

Jul 21 2021

COVID-19, Primary Care, Tara Kiran

From virtual-first to patient-directed: a new normal for primary care

1 Comment

In a patient-directed approach, care is more efficient

Feb 11 2021

Primary Care, Reflections

More than “just a family doctor”

11 Comments

To be a family physician you need to be time-efficient yet comprehensive, a humble team player and a fierce advocate, an expert in communication, with a working knowledge of…well... a...

Mar 21 2020

COVID-19, Primary Care, Reflections

COVID-19 will reveal our true values

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Governments come and go but physicians in this country hold fast to their end of a social contract that includes a duty to care.

Mar 15 2020

Primary Care

The observer vs the imposter

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Vlad Evdaev is a third year medical student at the University of British Columbia.   “It won’t be long before they find out that I am a fraud, or that...

Feb 22 2020

Primary Care

Why do we expect patients to rely on memory alone? Receiving written instructions at the doctor’s office

5 Comments

Saba Shahab is a third year medical student at Western University.   How many patients remember every advice shared by their physician at a clinic visit? How often do patients...

Feb 02 2020

Primary Care

If Earth Was Our Patient

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Owen Dan Luo is a medical student in the Class of 2023 at McGill University. He is also a committee member on the Health and Environment Adaptive Response Task force (HEART) of the...

Nov 09 2019

Primary Care

Ready

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Jovana Milenkovic is a PGY2 in Pediatrics at the University of Calgary. Ready is what I was. A week of what should have been pure relaxation on the beaches of...

Nov 02 2019

Primary Care

Observations on public health

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Stephanie Choquette is a medical student in the class of 2020 at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine       Public health is most often understood as “…the science and...

Sep 09 2019

Primary Care

Health system transformation in Ontario: leadership lessons

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Grace Zhao is a third year MD/MSc student in the Systems Leadership and Innovation program at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.   Ontario is undergoing its biggest...

Aug 04 2019

Primary Care

A call for action for summary clinical reports

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Richeek Pradhan is a Ph.D. candidate in Pharmacoepidemiology at McGill University. If you want to find out what Lady Gaga’s met gala costume looked like, or where Queen Elizabeth dined...

Jul 17 2019

Primary Care

Addressing the income gap in medical school

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Kate Peiyin Zhang is a medical resident at University of Toronto.   “I can’t afford to see a dentist or pay for medication,” says the patient sitting across from me....

Jun 24 2019

Primary Care

The Future of Climate Change: The HEART Initiative

6 Comments

Imagine yourself as a family physician seeing a 68-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and chronic knee pain. While these medical concerns are well-managed, things...

Nov 15 2018

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

NAPCRG 2018: meaning in work and friendship in colleagues

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   Research conferences should be an opportunity to gain insights from discussion and...

Oct 22 2018

Primary Care

Strengthening ties between academic primary care institutions

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Nicolas Senn is professor and director of the Institute of family medicine at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland   In Lausanne, Switzerland, we are in the process of transforming...