Category: Reflections

Apr 24 2018

The 20th anniversary of a vaccine debacle: time to reflect on how far we have come

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Natasha Sarah Crowcroft is Chief of Applied Immunization Research at Public Health Ontario and a Professor at the University of Toronto in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and the Dalla Lana...

Apr 17 2018

Reflections

“Nothing”

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Magbule Doko is a family physician in Windsor, Ontario, and an adjunct professor at The University of Western Ontario Our decision, firm and dedicated To become doctors: a...

Apr 10 2018

Reflections

The returns of smarter spending on food in health care

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Howard Abrams is the Director of Openlab, a design and innovation shop located at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto Andre Picard recently proposed in the Globe and Mail:...

Apr 05 2018

Reflections

When the doctor says sorry – do we know if apology laws work?

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Paul G. Thomas is Professor Emeritus of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. From 2004 to 2007 he served as the founding board chair for the Manitoba Institute for...

Mar 27 2018

Reflections

Junk science: a running hypothesis

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Lawrence Loh is an Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto I took up run-commuting following the birth of my first...

Mar 02 2018

Reflections

Can health care learn from Bitcoin and blockchain?

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Adam Kassam is the chief resident in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Western University Jeremy Wasserlauf is a fellow in cardiovascular disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School...

Feb 28 2018

Reflections

The CMA Presidential Election: What’s that to me?

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Sharon Yeung is a MD/MSc student at Queen’s University I’ll be the first to admit: I’ve never been one for politics. The garish lawn signs of electoral campaigns, the...

Feb 27 2018

Reflections

The hidden curriculum of mental illness stigma in medical training

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Sarah Tulk is an Ontario physician who recently finished her residency training in family medicine at McMaster University “If only he had chosen a higher floor, we wouldn’t have...

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...

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 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...

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...

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,...