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
Psychedelic medicine is making a comeback
Interview with Dr. Matthew Johnson, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Renewed interest in the use of psychedelic drugs as treat…
00:18:45 |
Tue 08 Sep 2015
Reducing pain during vaccine injections: clinical practice guideline and recommendations
Interview with Anna Taddio, Professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. This guideline, co-authored by Dr. Taddio, provides practical recommendations for reducing pa…
00:20:59 |
Mon 24 Aug 2015
Family physician or obstetrician for delivery: no difference for moms and babies
Interview with Dr. Kris Aubrey-Bassler, family physician and associate professor in the Primary Healthcare Research Unit at Memorial University. In their observational study, Dr. Aubrey-Bassler and c…
00:18:45 |
Mon 24 Aug 2015
Does physician experience affect patient outcome?
A research article by McAlister et. al., published in CMAJ, looks at level of physician experience and its effect on important patient outcomes that proxy for quality of care. Physician groups were s…
00:06:56 |
Mon 17 Aug 2015
Canadians need a federal plan for health care
CMAJ deputy editors Dr. Matthew Stanbrook and Dr. Kirsten Patrick discuss an editorial written by Dr. Stanbrook. Too often, at election time, Canadians ignore pressing health care concerns and let ec…
00:11:50 |
Mon 17 Aug 2015
UTIs in spinal cord injury, ingestion of wild mushrooms in park, frailty, preop testing & more
Highlights of the August 11th issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. Diane Kelsall, deputy editor. In this issue: association between frailty and risk of early readmission or death, too much preoperative te…
00:08:28 |
Mon 10 Aug 2015
Household food insecurity is associated with higher health care costs
Interview with Valerie Tarasuk, Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and cross-appointed to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. In a research article p…
00:18:51 |
Mon 10 Aug 2015
Acute ischemic stroke: speedy care is critical, time is brain, act FAST
Interview with Dr. Michael Hill, neurologist and Director of the Stroke Unit at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, and Associate Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary. In a…
00:15:59 |
Tue 04 Aug 2015
Hepatitis C: must address drivers of the disease, not just treatment
Interview with Dr. Mark Tyndall, infection disease specialist, Professor of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and Executive Director of the BC CDC. In a commentary p…
00:12:15 |
Tue 04 Aug 2015
Nasal balloon autoinflation safe and effective for middle ear infections in children
Interview with Dr. Ian Williamson, Associate Professor of Primary Care with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton in the UK. In a pragmatic randomized control trial published in CM…
00:11:15 |
Mon 27 Jul 2015
Pets & pathogens, new CMAJ Humanities section, one-year mortality prediction & more
Highlights of the July 14th issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. John Fletcher, editor-in-chief. In this issue: benefits and risks of owning a pet, model for predicting death one year after hospital admis…
00:06:46 |
Mon 13 Jul 2015
Researching hard-to-reach people using social connections
Health research involving people in marginalized populations can be challenging, and recruitment is often difficult. One approach, respondent-driven sampling, takes advantage of connections between p…
00:09:15 |
Mon 29 Jun 2015
Early-stage breast cancer imaging: are doctors choosing wisely?
Practice guidelines recommend that imaging to detect metastases not be performed in the majority of patients with early-stage breast cancer who are asymptomatic. In a research article published in CM…
00:05:09 |
Mon 22 Jun 2015
10 Questions with Dr. Peter Piot, discoverer of Ebola
Dr. Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, joins CMAJ News to reflect on his career fighting two of the most feared viruses of our time. In 1976, he codiscovered Eb…
00:10:46 |
Thu 18 Jun 2015
Radon policies, coordination disorder, nitrofurantoin for UTIs, social egg freezing & more
Highlights of the June 16th issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. Diane Kelsall, deputy editor. In this issue: Canadian policies on radon, developmental coordination disorder in school-age children, social…
00:06:59 |
Mon 15 Jun 2015
Preoperative testing before low-risk surgery: how much unnecessary test-ordering occurs?
Interview with Dr. Sacha Bhatia, cardiologist at Women’s College Hospital and UHN in Toronto and Director of the Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care. In a …
00:19:02 |
Mon 01 Jun 2015
Cataract surgery add-ons: must be offered in transparent and ethical way
Interview with Dr. Chryssa McAlister, eye physician and surgeon in Toronto and Kitchener, Ontario, with academic appointments at McMaster University and the University of Toronto. In an analysis arti…
00:09:54 |
Mon 01 Jun 2015
Frailty and hospital readmission or death
Dr. Ken Flegel, senior editor for CMAJ, interviews Dr. Finlay McAlister, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta and Assistant Director of the Epicore Centre. In a CMAJ research a…
00:10:47 |
Mon 25 May 2015
New interest in circumcision
Vancouver surgeon Dr. Neil Pollock reflects on changing demand for male circumcision both in Canada and the developing world. CMAJ Article: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/187/10/E295To request a transcr…
00:08:13 |
Mon 25 May 2015
Ultrasound to guide IV cath in children, acute MI, social media in med ed, elder abuse & more
Highlights from the May 19th issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. John Fletcher, editor-in-chief. In this issue: ultrasound or near-infrared to guide peripheral IV catheterization in children, validation …
00:09:26 |
Tue 19 May 2015
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