Jul 08 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Measuring impact – #sapcasm day 1

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK, currently at the Society for Academic Primary Care annual conference   Measuring research...

Jul 08 2015

Primary Care

Supporting People with Medically Unexplained Syndromes

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Rona Moss-Morris is Professor of Psychology as Applied to Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK. She is a keynote speaker at this year’s...

Jul 07 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Melanoma of the Heel

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Mona Al-Taha Dalhousie University Class of 2017           Patient M. presents to clinic, Melanoma of the Heel. Surgically excised, Radial forearm free flap, Doing well post-op....

Jul 07 2015

Editors' Blog

CMAJBlogs is celebrating its first blogiversary!

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ CMAJ Blogs launched just over a year ago and has seen a great first year of fantastic content. It has been a...

Jul 06 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Shoes, egg sandwiches and white wine

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Carolyn Chew-Graham is Professor of General Practice Research and  Director of Clinical Academic Training at Keele University, UK. She is a keynote speaker at this year’s SAPC conference in Oxford....

Jun 29 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Medical Minority

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Will Caron McMaster University Class of 2016 Feeling like an outsider is never a pleasant experience. For some people and groups, exclusion is a part of everyday life. Being of...

Jun 25 2015

Medical Dispatches

A tool to assist Point-of-Care Evidence-Based Diagnosis

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Michael Garfinkle is a Nephrology Fellow at the University of Calgary   The practice of evidence based diagnosis is what we are taught we should all do, but, in practice,...

Jun 24 2015

Reflections

Why gender matters when it comes to stigma associated with addictions

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Carolyn Shimmin is a Knowledge Translation Coordinator with the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation and EvidenceNetwork.ca   From Chaucer to Shakespeare, women’s consumption of alcohol and other...

Jun 22 2015

Student Humanities Blog

If Dr. Seuss Were My Doctor

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Kayla Simms University of Ottawa Class of 2016 Upon being accepted to medical school in 2012, I received a special edition of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” from a personal...

Jun 18 2015

Editors' Blog

On women in Science and Medicine

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Perhaps too slow, perhaps too nervous, but now that the London Times...

Jun 17 2015

Patients' blog, Reflections

Girl in the dark

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Patricia Lightfoot is Associate Director, Online Physician Learning, at the new CMA subsidiary “8872147 Canada Inc.”   I read Girl in the Dark a few months after escaping from a...

Jun 15 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Split Selves

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Vivian (Jiaji) Xia McMaster University Class of 2017 “Alright, the last four, come with me.” It is clinical skills at the General and we mechanically split ourselves into neat packages...

Jun 06 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Inverno

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Alexander Morzycki Dalhousie University Class of 2018 Inverno was inspired by someone very close to me who once struggled with depression. Autumn leaves have all fallen now The skies are...

Jun 05 2015

Editors' Blog

Psychiatry conferences and the outsider’s view

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Looking at medical conferences as an outsider gives a different perspective. As...