Feb 22 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The soloist

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Ronald Leung is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at McMaster University   “I think I’m dying,” one of my patients says to me one day. We stop,...

Feb 20 2018

Medical Dispatches

Laundry Detergent Pod Toxicity

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Tanishq Suryavanshi is a medical student at McMaster University Blair Bigham is an emergency medicine resident at McMaster University and a freelance journalist   Bandar Baw is an assistant professor,...

Feb 19 2018

Student Humanities Blog

From Ireland to Canada as a medical student

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Chloe MacAuley is an intern (junior doctor) at Tallaught Hospital in Ireland who graduated from medical school at Trinity College Dublin in 2017   Armed with an email outlining the ‘Dangerous...

Feb 15 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The blue backpack

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Dominic Wang is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at Western University   My usual Sunday morning plans to catch up on last week’s lectures were mixed with a dash of...

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...

Feb 13 2018

Editors' Blog

Mountain rescue doctor: a different life

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   A normal day for Dr. Pierre Pili may involve being helicoptered up...

Feb 12 2018

Student Humanities Blog

A goal

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Kevin Dueck is a Family Medicine Resident (R1) at McMaster University who graduated from medical school at Western University in 2016       To be content for my family my patients myself. A...

Feb 08 2018

Student Humanities Blog

The final project

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Zeenat Junaid is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Bahria University in Pakistan   “How do you make leukemia visible?” Jo Spence asked herself. A British photographer and educator, Spence...

Feb 05 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Bedside manner

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Kayla Simms is a Psychiatry Resident (R1) at McMaster University who graduated from medical school at the University of Ottawa in 2017   Compartmentalization is to medical knowledge as bread is to butter: patients,...

Feb 03 2018

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Early Career Research in Primary Care Medicine in Switzerland

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He’s currently also Chair of the Jury for the National Research Award of...

Feb 01 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Gratitude

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Shawn K is a Psychiatry Resident (R4) at the University of Ottawa who graduated from medical school at Western University in 2014   This poem was performed at the 2017 Canadian Festival of Spoken...

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 31 2018

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

The research paper as a Fairy Tale

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   In my capacity as Chair of the Jury for the National Research...

Jan 29 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Book review: Medicine, Unbundled

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Maggie Hulbert is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Queen’s University   Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Heritage House, 2017) Imagine working in a...