Category: Reflections

Jun 15 2016

Reflections

Respiratory virus surveillance: why we need more physicians to volunteer as community based sentinel health care providers

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Anne Winter is an epidemiologist specialist at Public Health Ontario   There are a variety of mechanisms through which surveillance information about the circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses...

Jun 11 2016

Reflections

A critical examination of health system governance in Nunavut

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Gwen Healey is the Executive and Scientific Director of the Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and Assistant Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. She was born...

Jun 10 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Reflections of an early career researcher on PHCRIS 2016

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Liz Sturgiss is a lecturer at the Academic Unit of General Practice of the Australian National University   I faced attending PHCRIS this year with some trepidation. I’ll admit that,...

May 13 2016

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

A healthy death

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   When Canada’s Supreme Court struck down the law prohibiting...

May 10 2016

Reflections

When a child dies

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Wasif Hussain is an Adult Neurology Resident PGY-5 at the University of Alberta   Hearing about last week’s Alberta court ruling against David and Collet Stephan regarding the failure to...

Apr 20 2016

Editors' Blog, Reflections

A young doctor’s death

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   They found the body. A short paragraph buried in the newspaper. Dr...

Apr 18 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

The evolving face of public health crises in Canada: Are we ready?

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Nicole Kain is a PhD Candidate in Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta Cindy Jardine is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of...

Apr 14 2016

Reflections

Time to transform the medical curriculum in Aboriginal Health

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Meghna Rajaprakash is a medical student at the University of Toronto (class of 2016)   The recent Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report (2015) called upon medical schools “to require...

Apr 12 2016

Reflections

Hacking medical devices

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Aedan Coffey is a consultant electronic design engineer working in Ireland   We got hacked. Some nice person somewhere in the world managed to get into the little black box...

Apr 09 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A BC psychiatrist’s experience of providing psychiatric services to 4 Northern communities

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Peter Uhlmann is a semi-retired psychiatrist from Powell River, BC. He works as a locum consultant psychiatrist to several Northern communities.   In 2004 I started providing psychiatric locum service...

Apr 04 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Academic primary care: needed now more than ever

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Joanne Reeve is an Associate Clinical Professor in Primary Care at Warwick Medical School in the UK, and the Chair of the Society for Academic Primary Care   A recent...

Apr 02 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Medical Moms’ toddlers tantrum too

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Carrie Ladd is a part time general practitioner in the UK National Health Service, a spare time RCGP Clinical Fellow in Perinatal Mental Health, and a full time mum…doing overtime!...

Mar 11 2016

Reflections

2016: International “Year of Pulses”

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Christopher Marinangeli is the Director of Nutrition, Science and Regulatory Affairs at Pulse Canada Mohammad Abdullah is a Research Associate at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at...

Mar 05 2016

Reflections

Empowerment and health – 30 years on from the Ottawa Charter

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   Most of my life’s work has been in the...