Nov 14 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reflections on Day One of #NAPCRG2016

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He is currently attending the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) annual...

Nov 13 2016

Primary Care

Creating a “community of solution” for refugees: diversity in approaches of local research responses

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Kim Griswold is Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, and Public Health and Health Professions at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Buffalo, New York. Dr Griswold will...

Nov 13 2016

Primary Care

Expanding the evidence-base to offer guidance on best health care for immigrants and refugees

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Kevin Pottie is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Epi & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, as well as co-Chair of the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee...

Nov 12 2016

Primary Care

Research to inform a patient centred health system for refugees

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Mark Harris is Foundation Professor of General Practice and Executive Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Dr...

Nov 12 2016

Primary Care

The scope of the international refugee crisis and challenges for Primary Care

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Fern R. Hauck is Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. Dr Hauck will be speaking at the forthcoming North American Primary Care Research...

Nov 09 2016

Editors' Blog

The world needs more Canada

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Yes I did wake up at 3 am today and think, “I’ll just check the U.S. election results…” and boy do I...

Oct 25 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Making human genetics great again by being strongly together

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Stuart Nicholls is a Clinical Investigator and Methodologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Methodologist at the Ontario Child Health Support Unit (OCHSU). He recently attended...

Oct 23 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Mending the Souls of Our Seniors

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Daniel (Yiqiao) Wang University of Ottawa Class of 2019 “Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul”. Atul Gawande’s recently published book, Being Mortal, discusses the...

Oct 17 2016

Editors' Blog, Reflections

“The other side of silence”

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   Dear Linda, I have just read your book – or, should I...

Oct 16 2016

Student Humanities Blog

1:15 am

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Anonymous It’s 1:15 am as I write this. I’m tired. I’ve worked just under 17 hours today, but I can’t sleep. Too bad. I will start at 8 am again...

Oct 11 2016

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care, Reflections

Let’s not be our own worst enemies

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Bonnie Larson is Family Physician at Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS) Health Centre   Recently I called the emergency department from my outreach clinic in an urban shelter.  Near the...

Oct 01 2016

Reflections

Raising awareness of drug shortages in Canada – talking to residents

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Jacalyn Duffin is a hematologist and historian who holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen’s University   Recently, I addressed first and second year residents in...

Sep 30 2016

Editors' Blog

How to equip policymakers to advance the physical activity agenda

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   We publishing the wrong research and funding too many of the wrong...

Sep 21 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Treating children with ADHD: don’t underestimate the importance of adequate medication dosing

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Dr Rod Bergh is a general pediatrician who has practiced medicine since the early 1960s.   I have practiced Pediatrics for most of the 59 years since I graduated from...