CMAJ Podcasts
CMAJ Podcasts: Exploring the latest in Canadian medicine from coast to coast to coast with your hosts, Drs. Mojola Omole and Blair Bigham. CMAJ Podcasts delves into the scientific and social health advances on the cutting edge of Canadian health care. Episodes include real stories of patients, clinicians, and others who are impacted by our health care system.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 431
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Schizophrenia: trends in mortality
In this interview, Dr. Paul Kurdyak explains the results of research on mortality trends in individuals with schizophrenia over a period of 20 years. Dr. Kurdyak and his co-authors published a study …
00:16:54 |
Sun 17 Sep 2017
Take-home naloxone kits for opioid overdose
In this interview, Dr. Thara Kumar and Dr. Hans Rosenberg tell us about take-home naloxone kits used for opioid overdose. They discuss how to use them, where to get them, how they work, and more. The…
00:20:22 |
Sun 17 Sep 2017
Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm: clinical practice guideline
In this interview, Dr. Harminder Singh takes listeners through the new Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) guideline on screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm, or AAA. He explains…
00:18:24 |
Mon 11 Sep 2017
Emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria
In this interview, Dr. Jennie Johnstone tells us about a strain of gram-negative bacteria called carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) that is resistant to most antibiotics. She also discu…
00:13:25 |
Tue 05 Sep 2017
Maternal suicide during pregnancy or the first postpartum year
Death by suicide during the perinatal period has been understudied in Canada. Little is known about the true extent of the problem or the steps that can be taken to prevent it.In this interview, Dr. …
00:14:37 |
Mon 28 Aug 2017
Frailty, activity level and mortality
In this interview, Dr. Olga Theou and Dr. Kenneth Rockwood discuss their research looking at the association between sedentary time and mortality across levels of frailty.Olga Theou is an assistant p…
00:26:50 |
Mon 21 Aug 2017
Encounters — A medical student questions who the expert really is in patient care
Dr. Shannon Chun, 2017 graduate from Queen's University medical school, shares a memorable encounter with a patient that made him question who the expert really is. The story is true but some details…
00:07:56 |
Tue 08 Aug 2017
Encounters — A pediatrician shares the story of a memorable patient whose life was too short
Dr. Paul Atkison, pediatrician and transplant specialist at the London Health Sciences Centre Children's Hospital, shares why one particular patient remains close to his heart. The story is true.His …
00:10:02 |
Mon 31 Jul 2017
Polio gamma globulin clinical trials in the 1950s: victims of marketing success
In this interview, Dr. Stephen Mawdsley takes a look back at the early 1950s when gamma globulin was being tested for the prevention of polio. He explains how successful publicity ultimately compromi…
00:20:34 |
Mon 24 Jul 2017
Encounters — Parenting a child with severe medical complexities
Ms. Donna Thomson, the parent of two adult children, one with severe disabilities, shares some of the insights she has gained after 28 years of caregiving and parenting. She reads her Humanities arti…
00:13:50 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Canadian Ebola vaccine: safety and immunogenicity of the VSV-ZEBOV vaccine
Dr. May ElSherif discusses the randomized control trial of a Canadian Ebola vaccine that was developed at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. ElSherif is an international me…
00:12:15 |
Mon 19 Jun 2017
Encounters — A fly-in physician reflects on practising medicine up North
Dr. Dominika Jegen, a rural and remote family doctor and assistant professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, offers a glimpse of life as a fly-in physician in the Northwest Territories. S…
00:09:56 |
Mon 05 Jun 2017
Birth with forceps or vacuum: rates of severe outcomes compared with c-section
Interview with Giulia Muraca, a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar.Ms. Muraca published a research article…
00:18:50 |
Mon 05 Jun 2017
Encounters — A medical student uncovers his family's history of mental illness
Benjamin Hull Chin-Yee, a medical student at the University of Toronto, shares his feelings after finding a photograph of his great grand-mother and a copy of her case history.Mr. Chin-Yee authored a…
00:09:24 |
Mon 29 May 2017
Toxic shock syndrome, tampons, and the Syngyna Lab Apparatus
In this interview, Dr. Sharra Vostral, associate professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, explains how toxic shock and tampons motivated wo…
00:19:58 |
Tue 23 May 2017
Encounters — A retired palliative care physician shares the story of a memorable patient
Listen to this audio reading of a CMAJ Humanities Encounters article titled Calling. It is written and read by Dr. Janice Mulder, Palliative Care Consultant and a retired physician who lives in Winni…
00:10:24 |
Mon 08 May 2017
Opioid guideline for management of chronic non-cancer pain
The new Canadian guideline presents evidence-based recommendations for prescribing of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain, including maximum dose recommendations, avoiding opioids in high risk popula…
00:36:59 |
Mon 08 May 2017
Hepatitis C screening in adults: clinical practice guideline
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has reviewed the latest literature evidence and published a guideline in the CMAJ on screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in adults. Dr. Roland Grad…
00:18:22 |
Mon 24 Apr 2017
Firearm injuries and deaths among immigrant children and youth in Ontario
Interview with Dr. Natasha Saunders, general paediatrician and associate scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children and health services researcher at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (…
00:15:07 |
Mon 27 Mar 2017
Encounters — A medical student's final goodbye to her father
Barbara Sibbald, news and humanities editor for CMAJ, reads the Humanities Encounters article "Rendez-vous." The article is written by Diana Kim, a medical student at the University of British Columb…
00:05:15 |
Mon 27 Mar 2017
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