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 10 2016

Medical Dispatches

We want to come home

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Viktoria Koskenoja is an emergency medicine resident in her fourth year of the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency   Haley K. Cochrane is  an emergency medicine resident in her second year...

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 08 2016

Editors' Blog

Feeling rejected

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   One of the best pieces of research with which I was involved...

Apr 04 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Die Alone

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Beatrice Preti McMaster University Class of 2017 I hate the way some people die When no one’s there to scream or cry I hate the way they die alone As...

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 22 2016

Student Humanities Blog

A Touch of Reality

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Mei Wen University of Toronto Class of 2019 I wish I could say what I learned in class prepared me for this conversation, but unfortunately, it did not. Moments after completing...

Mar 21 2016

Editors' Blog

Yesterday’s heroes: challenges facing top athletes when they retire

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   You step off the podium into an abyss. And, that’s if you...

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...

Mar 05 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Brain Vitamins

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Laura Schep Dalhousie University Class of 2017 “I don’t want these anymore,” I say, avoiding my doctor’s gaze as I reach into my purse and retrieve the pill bottle, half...

Mar 04 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Postmodern academic general practice: examining continuity of care

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Sir Denis Pereira Gray, OBE, is a consultant at St Leonard’s Research Practice, Exeter, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom   A few weeks...