Category: Primary Care

Oct 26 2015

International perspectives on improving end of life care

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Professor Scott A Murray is the St Columba’s Hospice Chair of Primary Palliative Care Research Group at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK We live in exciting times...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Integrating palliative care into primary care in France

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Sébastien Moine est médecin généraliste en Saint Just en Chaussée, France, et doctorant en santé publique (Université Paris 13) | Sébastien Moine is a GP in Saint Just en Chaussée,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

A Call to Action: Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care in the United States

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Anthony J. Caprio, MD, CMD serves as the medical director and an Associate Professor for the Division of Aging, in the Department of Family Medicine for the Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should

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Marianne Dees is a family physician and academic researcher at Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands Let’s take a look at appropriate end of life care. The case...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Palliative care – everyone’s business!

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Geoffrey Mitchell is Professor of General Practice and Palliative care at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia The developed world is experiencing a dramatic shift in its demographics,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

One of our biggest challenges: The End

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Fred Burge is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Finally, a plenary session at NAPCRG on dying. For over twenty years I’ve...

Oct 23 2015

Primary Care

Research in family medicine

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Carmen García-Peña is a Mexican family physician who is currently Head of the Research Division at the National Institute of Geriatrics. She is a keynote speaker at the forthcoming NAPCRG...

Aug 21 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

The past, present and future family doctor

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He’s giving the opening keynote address at the upcoming Swiss Family Doctors Conference...

Jul 12 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Dangerous ideas

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, recently returned from the Society for Academic Primary Care’s annual conference in Oxford, UK What sort of research would we be doing...

Jul 09 2015

Primary Care

Multimorbidity: time to deliver the Emperor’s clothes

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Bruce Guthrie is Professor of Primary Care Medicine at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He is a keynote speaker at this week’s Society for Academic Primary Care annual conference...

Jul 09 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

“Mummy – do you have to go to the conference?”

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Susan A. Jebb is Professor of Diet and Population Health in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK. She is the conference chair for this...

Jul 08 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Measuring impact – #sapcasm day 1

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK, currently at the Society for Academic Primary Care annual conference Measuring research...

Jul 08 2015

Primary Care

Supporting People with Medically Unexplained Syndromes

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Rona Moss-Morris is Professor of Psychology as Applied to Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK. She is a keynote speaker at this year’s...

Jul 06 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Shoes, egg sandwiches and white wine

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Carolyn Chew-Graham is Professor of General Practice Research and Director of Clinical Academic Training at Keele University, UK. She is a keynote speaker at this year’s SAPC conference in Oxford....