Mar 09 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Koplik spots: their importance and history

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Koplik was not the first to describe these lesions, but he was the first to emphasize that they were pathognomonic of measles

Mar 05 2015

Editors' Blog

“Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a Match”: Consequences of the CaRMS and US residency match agreement

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open   Yesterday was Match Day for CaRMS (the Canadian Resident Matching Service). The results were available at noon,...

Mar 05 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Let Me Go

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Scott Odorizzi Western University Class of 2015 Two broad men in uniform approach me. They look tense. A collection of tools hangs from their waists. I notice the shape of...

Mar 04 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Call for Submissions: White Coat, Warm Art

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Call for Submissions WHITE COAT, Warm ART  Exhibit  ~ Vancouver British Columbia ~ April 25th-28th  2015 We are pleased to announce the 6th Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME) Art...

Mar 03 2015

Medical aid in dying

Physician-assisted death: how veterinarians can contribute to the conversation

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Jamie L. Rothenburger is a veterinarian and researcher in the Department of Pathobiology at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario     Editor’s note: This article was originally published...

Mar 02 2015

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care

Refugee primary care: lessons in advocacy, cultural competence and self-reflection

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Boluwaji Ogunyemi is a Dermatology Resident Physician in Vancouver, BC, and a freelance writer for the Huffington Post, Ubyssey Newspaper, and the Online Journal for Community and Person-centered Dermatology As...

Mar 02 2015

Primary Care

Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 6 of 6)

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William Hogg is Senior Research Advisor at the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre at the Bruyère Research Institute in Ottawa, Ontario     Primary care in Canada What...

Mar 01 2015

Primary Care

Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 5 of 6)

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Paul Little is NIHR Senior Investigator and Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom Primary Care in the United Kingdom What do populations...

Feb 28 2015

Primary Care

Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 4 of 6)

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Chris van Weel is Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine at Radboud University, the Netherlands, and Professor of Primary Health Care Research at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Primary care in...

Feb 27 2015

Editors' Blog

Public Health’s ten year victory over tobacco

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Today, February 27th 2015, marks the tenth anniversary of the coming into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (#FCTC10)....

Feb 27 2015

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

My chemo mantra

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Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher – retired after 34 years in the classroom – and an...

Feb 27 2015

Primary Care

Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 3 of 6)

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Jane Gunn is Chair of Primary Care Research and Head of the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne, Australia Primary care in Australia What do populations need?...

Feb 26 2015

Primary Care

Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 2 of 6)

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Felicity Goodyear-Smith is a General Practitioner and Head of the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland, New Zealand   Primary care in New...

Feb 25 2015

Primary Care

Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 1 of 6)

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Baukje (Bo) Miedema is Professor and Director of Research at the Dalhousie University Family Medicine Teaching Unit and Adjunct Professor in the Sociology Department, University of New Brunswick  “The constitution”...