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President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... with the highest ratios seen in doctors who have been in practice for more than 10 years. More time spent in medicine ...
Premise / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) January/February 2024
... and graduating MDs want to be specialists, while family practice residency positions go begging, or family physicians ... has always been part of primary care, is required. Medical practice is seen as divided into the science and art of ... health care we family physicians used to excel at, and a practice where we think humans will be irreplaceable. What ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... physicians willing to start or remain in a longitudinal practice. Slow medicine originated in Italy (after the slow ... experimenting with implementing the approach in my own practice. I’ve scheduled more time with patients, as well ...
Letters / BY: Lisa Veres, MD April 2024
... since the formation of the Victoria Division of Family Practice 13 years ago. We started with great excitement and ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD January/February 2024
... 7 ] Antibiotics are used in raising livestock. This practice accelerates the development of antibiotic-resistant ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD May 2024
... with an apology: “Sorry, but can I . . . ?” This practice seems ingrained in our culture. Reflecting on when I ... what they find to be the most rewarding part of family practice, many tell me it is the longitudinal nature of the ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC April 2024
... valued. Increasingly, the administrative burdens of practice have led to concerns about physician wellness and ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2024
... late 1960s and early 1970s, I was asked to explain why my practice profile registered three standard deviations above ... become familiar with pelvic anatomy. It seems this helpful practice has been discontinued. I suspect the reluctance ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... program has instilled the importance of reflective practice through regular portfolio sessions, which take the ... journaling exercises on difficult experiences in clinical practice followed by group debriefs. However, these mostly ...
Letters / BY: Rainer Borkenhagen, MD January/February 2024
... to divorce. I was (as was typical) overly committed to my practice, and she had the family burden, to the detriment of ... burden, which entailed me giving up my family practice and working part-time for the next 10 years. This ...