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 Canadian Medical Association Journal

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.

Life Sciences Health & Fitness Science Medicine
Update frequency
every 13 days
Average duration
22 minutes
Episodes
431
Years Active
2014 - 2025
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Special Episode: 13 practical ways to address inequities worsened by COVID-19

Special Episode: 13 practical ways to address inequities worsened by COVID-19

The pandemic recovery period presents an opportunity to address health inequities that have led to an unfair distribution of the burden and harms of COVID-19. 

New guidance for policy published in CMA…

00:21:46  |   Mon 13 Dec 2021
The Rise Of Ketamine

The Rise Of Ketamine

Pain is one of the most common complaints among patients visiting the ER, and pain management has become a quality of care indicator. But the options available for the treatment of acute pain that is…

00:28:34  |   Mon 06 Dec 2021
The inconvenience of motherhood to a medical career

The inconvenience of motherhood to a medical career

One in four women physicians report a diagnosis of infertility. One reason for this is physicians tend to delay attempts to become pregnant until “the time is right” for their career.  But, in the me…

00:32:27  |   Mon 22 Nov 2021
Button battery ingestion in children

Button battery ingestion in children

Button batteries, sometimes called coin batteries, are small round batteries that power various electronic devices such as watches, remote controls or small kid toys. They are small and shiny, which …

00:17:12  |   Mon 27 Sep 2021
Artificial intelligence in medicine

Artificial intelligence in medicine

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have transformed our lives. The adoption of AI in medicine has perhaps lagged its adoption in other areas, and machine learning in healthcare ha…
00:39:10  |   Mon 30 Aug 2021
Adolescent contraception

Adolescent contraception

Many options exist nowadays for teenagers choosing to be on hormonal contraceptives. They are generally categorized into SARCs (short-acting reversible contraceptives) and LARCs (long-acting reversib…
00:20:43  |   Mon 09 Aug 2021
Involving patients at CMAJ

Involving patients at CMAJ

In this episode, Dr. Kirsten Patrick, interim editor-in-chief, chats with Francine Buchanan about her experience as a patient partner. Francine is in a unique position at the intersection of caregive…
00:42:08  |   Mon 12 Jul 2021
Long-distance travel for birth for Indigenous people

Long-distance travel for birth for Indigenous people

New research shows that Indigenous People living in rural Canada are 16 times more likely to have to travel long distances to give birth compared to non-Indigenous people living in rural areas. In th…
00:34:01  |   Mon 21 Jun 2021
Critical race theory in medicine

Critical race theory in medicine

Dr. Malika Sharma and Dr. Rahel Zewude explain the tenets of critical race theory. They also share how it has helped them tackle racism in the practice of medicine and how they've applied it to their…

00:29:50  |   Mon 17 May 2021
Alcohol use disorder & anticraving medication

Alcohol use disorder & anticraving medication

Anticraving medications are a lesser-known therapy for patients with moderate to severe alcohol use disorder. In this podcast, Dr. Jon Mong and Dr. Paxton Bach explain how to recognize and diagnose m…
00:32:20  |   Mon 10 May 2021
Painful periods in adolescents

Painful periods in adolescents

Dr. Olga Kciuk and Dr. Sari Kives talk about painful periods (dysmenorrhea) in teens – what causes it, how to diagnose it, how to rule out secondary causes, and how best to treat. Dr. Olga Kciuk is a…
00:10:40  |   Mon 19 Apr 2021
Dépistage de la chlamydia et de la gonorrhée asymptomatiques en médecine de soins primaires

Dépistage de la chlamydia et de la gonorrhée asymptomatiques en médecine de soins primaires

Dre Guylène Thériault explique les recommandations clé des nouvelles lignes directrices sur dépistage de la chlamydia et de la gonorrhée en médecine de soins primaires chez les personnes non connues …
00:18:08  |   Mon 19 Apr 2021
Screening for asymptomatic chlamydia and gonorrhea in primary care

Screening for asymptomatic chlamydia and gonorrhea in primary care

Dr. Ainsley Moore discusses a new guideline by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. The guideline recommends opportunistic screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea in primary care for indi…
00:23:20  |   Mon 19 Apr 2021
Antivaccine sentiment as power: the Montréal vaccine riots of 1885

Antivaccine sentiment as power: the Montréal vaccine riots of 1885

Prof. Jonathan Berman discusses what drives antivaccine and anti-mask protests, such as the Montréal vaccine protest of 1885 which turned violent. He talks about vaccine hesitancy in history and how …
00:26:21  |   Tue 06 Apr 2021
Gender equity at the senior leadership level

Gender equity at the senior leadership level

Prof. Andrea Tricco and Dr. Ainsley Moore discuss gender inequity in medicine at the senior leadership level and how it's intertwined with race. They also outline practical ways of advancing gender e…
00:26:54  |   Tue 16 Feb 2021
Diagnosis and treatment of adenomyosis

Diagnosis and treatment of adenomyosis

Drs Shirin Dason and Mara Sobel discuss how to diagnose and treat adenomyosis, a common cause of heavy and painful menstrual periods. Dr. Shirin Dason is a resident and soon-to-be infertility fellow …
00:12:48  |   Tue 16 Feb 2021
Prescribing cascades

Prescribing cascades

A prescribing cascade happens when the side effects of a prescribed drug are misinterpreted as a new medical condition for which an additional drug is prescribed. Some prescribing cascades can become…
00:21:06  |   Mon 08 Feb 2021
COVID-19 in patients on long-term dialysis

COVID-19 in patients on long-term dialysis

In this podcast, Dr. Andreas Laupacis, editor-in-chief of CMAJ, interviews two authors of a research article published in CMAJ. The research looked at SARS-CoV-2 infection among patients undergoing l…
00:26:19  |   Thu 04 Feb 2021
Mandatory vaccination for health care workers

Mandatory vaccination for health care workers

Prof. Colleen Flood discusses the legalities around requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19, both at the employer or hospital level and at the provincial…
00:22:50  |   Tue 19 Jan 2021
Relaxing hospital no-visitor policies

Relaxing hospital no-visitor policies

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, most hospitals in Canada adopted no-visitor policies because of concern that visitors would spread the virus. It was also a way of preserving personal protectiv…
00:34:07  |   Fri 18 Dec 2020
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