May 23 2014

Student Humanities Blog

The Menu

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Ahmad Abdullah University of British Columbia Class of 2015 I woke up today after a fourteen-hour, guilt-free slumber. I had stayed awake for a total of 34 hours, running on...

May 21 2014

Editors' Blog

Do we eat too much salt—or not? More from the 2014 Consensus Conference on Nutrition

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by Matthew Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, CMAJ, in Hamilton, ON We all eat too much salt, right? And even if we’re perfectly healthy right now, without individual and population-level efforts to...

May 20 2014

Editors' Blog

To eat or not to eat: the 2014 Consensus Conference on Nutrition

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by Matthew Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, CMAJ, in Hamilton, ON What should—and shouldn’t—we eat? A confusing and sometimes conflicting mass of information seems to arise continually from new research studies, media...

May 15 2014

Student Humanities Blog

A Traveler’s Vista

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Annie Liu University of Toronto Class of 2015 A glimpse of a remembered or anticipated experience, influenced sometimes by our foundations of knowledge and societal expectations, but rooted always in...

May 13 2014

Editors' Blog

The Giro, Pantani, and a message for medicine

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ associate editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The circus came to town. The Giro d’Italia, one of the world’s great...

May 13 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Learning From the Experts

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Maija Robinson, Tim Miao and Colin Way University of Ottawa Class of 2017 As medical students, we tend to focus on the physiological consequences of disease.  However, what really drives...

May 08 2014

Student Humanities Blog

What a patient taught me about Facebook

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Gregory Sawisky University of Alberta Class of 2016 “So, what are you doing to deal with your disease?” I ask her. We meet on the wards while I am a...

May 07 2014

Editors' Blog

Reflections on falling teenage pregnancy rates

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ associate editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Teenage pregnancy rates have fallen in England and Wales according to recent reports....

May 06 2014

Student Humanities Blog

The Vocation of Medicine: Considering History, Theology, and Sociology

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Lester Liao Western University Class of 2016 Holistic care is making its way into medical school curricula. This is wonderful when we consider the plethora of information gathered from several...

Apr 30 2014

Student Humanities Blog

My Box

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Irene Chen University of Toronto Class of 2017 I like it. I like the darkness the stillness the silence, no visitors no boxmates no one to explain myself to. I...

Apr 28 2014

Editors' Blog

Creating space for medical humanities

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  by Barbara Sibbald, Editor, News and Humanities, CMAJ Educational standards for physicians in Ontario originally included eight roles. When these morphed into the CanMeds physician competency standards there were...

Apr 23 2014

Editors' Blog

Insights into depression, suicide and PTSD from Northern Ireland

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by Domhnall MacAuley, CMAJ Associate editor In her inaugural professorial lecture Professor Siobhan O’Neill of Ulster University had some fascinating insights into the psychological manifestations of the patients we see...

Apr 22 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Aujourd’hui

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Florence Grégoire-Briard McGill University Class of 2015 Aujourd’hui, j’ai vu la mort. Aujourd’hui, j’ai vu la vie. Aujourd’hui, j’ai tenu la main d’un homme et l’ai accompagné dans ses derniers souffles....

Apr 16 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Skeletal Discovery

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April Marinich University of Ottawa Class of 2016 An attempt to look at medicine in a different way, in this case a model skeleton, was what inspired this series of photographs. These...