NAPCRG 2018: meaning in work and friendship in colleagues
Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. Research conferences should be an opportunity to gain insights from discussion and collegial...
View ArticleThe Future of Climate Change: The HEART Initiative
Imagine yourself as a family physician seeing a 68-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and chronic knee pain. While these medical concerns are...
View ArticleAddressing the income gap in medical school
Kate Peiyin Zhang is a medical resident at University of Toronto. “I can’t afford to see a dentist or pay for medication,” says the patient sitting across from me. “Can you help me?” Ten years ago, I...
View ArticleA call for action for summary clinical reports
Richeek Pradhan is a Ph.D. candidate in Pharmacoepidemiology at McGill University. If you want to find out what Lady Gaga’s met gala costume looked like, or where Queen Elizabeth dined last...
View ArticleHealth system transformation in Ontario: leadership lessons
Grace Zhao is a third year MD/MSc student in the Systems Leadership and Innovation program at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. Ontario is undergoing its biggest health...
View ArticleObservations on public health
Stephanie Choquette is a medical student in the class of 2020 at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Public health is most often understood as “...the science and art of preventing disease,...
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Jovana Milenkovic is a PGY2 in Pediatrics at the University of Calgary. Ready is what I was. A week of what should have been pure relaxation on the beaches of the Caribbean, was ruined by the torment...
View ArticleIf Earth Was Our Patient
Owen Dan Luo is a medical student in the Class of 2023 at McGill University. He is also a committee member on the Health and Environment Adaptive Response Task force (HEART) of the Canadian Federation...
View ArticleWhy do we expect patients to rely on memory alone? Receiving written...
Saba Shahab is a third year medical student at Western University. How many patients remember every advice shared by their physician at a clinic visit? How often do patients know exactly what disease...
View ArticleThe Observer vs The Imposter
Vlad Evdaev is a third year medical student at the University of British Columbia. “It won’t be long before they find out that I am a fraud, or that I do not belong; they must have made a mistake...
View ArticleStrengthening ties between academic primary care institutions
Nicolas Senn is professor and director of the Institute of family medicine at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland In Lausanne, Switzerland, we are in the process of transforming our medical...
View ArticleCOVID-19 will reveal our true values
Governments come and go but physicians in this country hold fast to their end of a social contract that includes a duty to care.
View ArticleMore than “just a family doctor”
To be a family physician you need to be time-efficient yet comprehensive, a humble team player and a fierce advocate, an expert in communication, with a working knowledge of…well... a lot!
View ArticleFrom virtual-first to patient-directed: a new normal for primary care
In a patient-directed approach, care is more efficient
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