Jul 05 2016

Primary Care

On the value of the international perspective in supporting primary care

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Amanda Howe is Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and President-Elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors   I am heading for...

Jul 05 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Reflections on structured PhD training for general practitioners in Ireland

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Emma Wallace is a Senior Clinical Research fellow in the Health Research Board (HRB) Centre for Primary Care Research at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Medical school...

Jul 04 2016

Primary Care

National Research School in General Practice in Sweden – Building Bridges to Lift a Specialty

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Lars H Lindholm is Professor and Director at Umeå University, Sweden   In 2009, the Swedish Research Council (SRC) advertised funding for five research schools (SEK 15 million each, about CAD...

Jul 04 2016

Primary Care

A Canadian perspective on training and career support in Family Medicine

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Wendy Norman is the CIHR and PHAC Chair in Family Planning Public Health Research, and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia  ...

Jul 04 2016

Primary Care

Clinical academic careers in Family Medicine: sharing international experience

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Tom Fahey is Professor of General Practice in The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a general practitioner in Dublin, Ireland   In late 2015 I was fortunate to...

Jun 28 2016

Editors' Blog

Publication School

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   I’m heading to Oxford, England, this week, to teach a session at...

Jun 27 2016

Student Humanities Blog

A Honeyed Voice

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Rabea Parpia University of Toronto Class of 2019 His voice is warm and soft, each sentence running into the next, broken up only by gravelly laughter and the occasional cough....

Jun 24 2016

Editors' Blog

The Canadian Paediatric Association meeting: an antidote to my #BrexitBlues

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ. She is currently attending the Canadian Paediatric Society annual meeting in Charlottetown, PEI   For the past two-and-a-bit days I’ve been privileged to...

Jun 23 2016

Editors' Blog

Resilience and Mutual Accountability at the CPS annual conference

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ. She is currently attending the Canadian Paediatric Society annual meeting in Charlottetown, PEI   Much as I love the Harry Potter books and...

Jun 19 2016

Student Humanities Blog

for Cleopatra.

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Adriano Mollica University of Toronto Class of 2019 the crevices in my hands could never course deep enough to hold all the life that has moved between your synapses and...

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,...

Jun 09 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Highlights from Day 2 of PHCRIS Canberra

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He recently attended the 2016 Primary Health Care Research Conference (PHCRIS) in Canberra,...