Aug 09 2016

Medical Dispatches

Boxing, brain damage and head protection: why aren’t the boxers at the Olympics wearing head guards?

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Mike Loosemore is Lead Consultant Sports Physician at the English Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health; he is currently at the Rio 2016 Olympics   Have you noticed that the male...

Aug 09 2016

Editors' Blog

The Canadian medics behind the Olympic athletes

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   As the world focuses on the Olympics in Rio, I visited the...

Aug 06 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Dangers

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Kevin Dueck Class of 2016 Western University (Behind a curtain in the Emergency Department) He grabbed me… how could I be so stupid. Grabbed my ponytail… cries and… and slammed...

Aug 04 2016

Editors' Blog

Olympic Legends

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   This week, with  the newspapers full of health scares, doping controversy and...

Aug 04 2016

Medical aid in dying

Think Carefully About Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying

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Jonathan Breslin, PhD, is an Ethicist at the Southlake Regional Health Centre and Mackenzie Health in Ontario   Following the recent passage of Canadian legislation governing assistance in dying many...

Aug 02 2016

Medical Dispatches

Medical Football Team Canada returns from Barcelona with a 14th Place International Ranking and a research award

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Paul Dhillon is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Academic Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan   Twenty-two physicians from across Canada recently left their examination rooms and operating theaters behind for...

Aug 02 2016

Editors' Blog

From data-driven illustrations to gamified neuron mapping

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ and a graduate of the Biomedical Communications program at the University of Toronto I attended the Association of Medical Illustrators’ (AMI) conference...

Jul 25 2016

Student Humanities Blog

More than medicine

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Mary Koziol McGill University Class of 2018 “MARRRIEEEEEEEE!” These enthusiastic greetings solidify Tuesday as my favourite day of week. As I enter the classroom, several of the girls come running...

Jul 19 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Transit

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Jason Gencher University of Toronto Class of 2018 An etiolated octogenarian calls out, Barely audible beyond his room. He beckons for a small sponge To wet his cracked blue lips....

Jul 18 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Roundup of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) annual meeting

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   The premier primary care research meeting in the United Kingdom and Ireland,...

Jul 13 2016

Primary Care

International perspectives on academic careers in primary care: the roundup

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   The following brief video summary of the recent International Colloquium on Clinical...

Jul 06 2016

Primary Care

A remarkable turnaround of opportunity for primary care academics

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Richard Hobbs is Director at the National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR), and Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at Oxford University in England...

Jul 06 2016

Primary Care

A framework for building health research capacity in Ireland

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Annalisa Montesanti is a Programme Manager at Ireland’s Health Research Board   Health research, and its knowledge application and translation towards more tangible impacts, requires the talent, expertise and ingenuity...

Jul 05 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

‘Next-gen’ leadership in healthcare

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Robyn Tamblyn is Scientific Director at the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of...