Physician Resources

$1 billion: The rising cost of asylum and the need for 24/7 border clinics
With TB rates climbing and U.S. deportations hitting record highs in 2026, Canada’s ‘wait-and-see’ approach to migrant health screening requires an immediate upgrade.
Alberta MAID limits would lead to suffering, signal lack of trust: practitioners
Twenty-five doctors, psychiatrists and others that work in the medical assistance in dying program, better known as MAID, have signed a statement saying they strongly oppose the restrictions announced last week.

The dumb doctor

Mistakes are inevitable when practicing medicine, but Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes writes that physicians should learn to give themselves more grace, as the profession is often held to impossible standards.
Reminiscing on residency: Dr. Chiebere Ogbuneke on mentoring, teamwork and the itch to leave home for somewhere new

From Nigeria to Nunavut to NOSM, this family physician and father of three has worn many hats over the years.
Moving to B.C., doc? New webinar on getting settled in the province

This recorded webinar for Doctors of BC has loads of details on resources available to physicians moving to the province.
Not manly enough? The many myths keeping sunscreen off your patients’ skin

Anything natural is good for you! Chemicals you can’t pronounce are definitely bad for you! People with darker skin never need sunscreen!
New relativity-adjusted increases for years 2 and 3 of current PSA announced for Ontario physicians

A message to members from the Ontario Medical Association announced the percentage increases.
Ontario’s healthcare system was built for a different era but to quote our PM: ‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’

Ontario’s healthcare challenges are not the result of a single shock. They are the predictable outcome of design choices made for a different era.
Editorial: The Happy Issue

Burnout is real, but joy is possible. We look at clinicians’ voyages.
Happy MD

A personal reflection on physician happiness in Canada.
Docs vs. med students charity hockey game to fund cancer research coming up March 7

Once again this year, Queen’s University medical students and local physicians from Kingston, Ont. are back on the ice, raising funds alongside the Canadian Cancer Society.
‘This problem could easily have been dealt with by the family doctor’

Dr. Tom Bell argues that simple professional collegiality between physicians is dwindling—and that's horrible for them and their patients.

$1 billion: The rising cost of asylum and the need for 24/7 border clinics

Alberta MAID limits would lead to suffering, signal lack of trust: practitioners

The dumb doctor

Reminiscing on residency: Dr. Chiebere Ogbuneke on mentoring, teamwork and the itch to leave home for somewhere new

Moving to B.C., doc? New webinar on getting settled in the province

Not manly enough? The many myths keeping sunscreen off your patients’ skin

New relativity-adjusted increases for years 2 and 3 of current PSA announced for Ontario physicians

Ontario’s healthcare system was built for a different era but to quote our PM: ‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’

Editorial: The Happy Issue

Happy MD

Docs vs. med students charity hockey game to fund cancer research coming up March 7

‘This problem could easily have been dealt with by the family doctor’