Many organizations and governments are invested in the idea of physicians as commodi-ties, as interchangeable parts of a plug-and-play medical machine.
Public Health Agency of Canada issues a comprehensive list of resources to aid, inform and educate Canadian healthcare professionals providing travel medicine services.
The 50-minute session will focus on safety concerns with labelling of IV fluids, strategies to mitigate fluoropyrimidine toxicity and the National System for Incident Reporting transition.
As doctors, we are constantly sitting through boring and tedious presentations. Doctors have rarely been taught how to improve their speaking skills. But becoming a good presenter can be learned just like riding a bike.
At the Federation of Medical Women of Canada conference in Toronto, obstetrics and gynecology specialist Dr. Marjorie Dixon outlined how physicians and help close the gap in maternal care outcomes for Black patients.
In rural Nova Scotia, the job of recruiting physicians and other healthcare workers can sometimes entail having to cat-sit—even if you’re allergic to felines.
North York General Hospital brings its CME courses to small towns in all 10 provinces and three territories, helping rural doctors develop skillsets while saving on travel time.
‘We know that there's this healthcare crisis, and it's amplified in rural communities, and so I don't think we have the time to wait for someone else to do this work,’ the society’s past president said.
