Hey #ICAM2024 :

Rebekah Sibbald's presentation 'Switching Tracks: Adapting Previously Developed Professional Identities in Medical Education' is switching tracks...originally scheduled for 1pm today, the presentation will now be at 10am Monday in Tennyson Room. Pass it on...

Meredith Vanstone (Meredith Vanstone) has been named the Canada Research Chair in Ethical Complexity in Primary Care for her research that aims to support patients and clinicians make difficult health care decisions. McMaster Health Sciences McMaster Research TIPS_SPIIE fammed.mcmaster.ca/family-medicin…

Eight McMaster University researchers from the Faculties of Science, Health Sciences and Engineering have been named Canada Research Chairs. Congratulations to our new and renewed CRCs! TIPS_SPIIE brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/eight…

Excellent paper by Kat Butler Meredith Vanstone Albina Veltman, MD & Adryen Yak exploring experiences of PIF for trans and non-binary students. More data highlighting the need for PIF to be re-conceptualized to better support authenticity & belonging

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Hot off the press! The Canadian Patient Partner Study is pleased to share a new publication led by Roma Dhamanaskar asking #patientpartners engaged in Canadian health system settings about their experiences with #compensation . Read the full text for free: doi.org/10.1111/hex.13…

Medicine really is an art and a science as this article illustrates. nationalgeographic.com/premium/articl… via National Geographic Keith Siau Meredith Vanstone

Listen to the audio interview with Monica @monicalmolinaro.bsky.social on family physicians' narratives of moral distress. 'You’re doing everything you possibly could do, and you know it’s not enough' bjgplife.com/142
Meredith Vanstone Gina Agarwal Katrina #MoralDistress #FamilyMedicine

Read family physicians' experiences of moral distress doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2…

Monica @monicalmolinaro.bsky.social Meredith Vanstone Gina Agarwal Katrina #MoralDistress #FamilyMedicine #PrimaryCare

This DFM-led study found that family physicians’ preferences for practice locations were tied with perceptions about their preferred practice scope. Read the full article: bit.ly/3sgQzn6 Lawrence Grierson Gina Agarwal Asiana

How can you successfully incorporate key informants into qualitative research projects? This article written by DFM researchers provides practical suggestions on including key informants in research. Learn more: bit.ly/3MsZ6dl Meredith Vanstone

With PhD applications due soon, thousands of young people are currently beginning their statements of purpose with the same cliché story, or the same anodyne statement

Stop right now!

Here are 10 thoughts for doing this right. Helps you, and helps admissions committees.👇

“We have not prioritized preventing maternal trauma. It's been demoted in our hierarchy of maternal morbidity and these high rates of trauma have been normalized,'

Giulia Muraca and colleagues argue that Canada’s high rates of maternal and neonatal trauma following operative vaginal delivery warrant urgent recognition, transparency, and action Rohan D'Souza Roxana Geoffrion Sarka

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Are you a PhD student publishing your research in English as an additional (ie, non-native) language? Pls consider completing this quick poll about the resources you currently use for language editing #phdlife #acwri

Are you interested in Health Policy? Applications are now open for the Health Policy PhD program. Please visit our website for application details. hpphd.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/future-student…

Surprise! Last week I officially began my new position at the wonderful IHSE McGill. I'm so thankful to Meredith Vanstone and McMaster Family Med for helping me grow personally and professionally over the last two years. It's been such a wonderful experience.

Feeling motivated to be a better #bedsideteacher ?! Listen in to our curated list of podcast episodes to up your skills! #HPE #medtwitter

@MedEdTwagTeam Subha Ramani Alaka Ray André Martin Mansoor Meredith Vanstone McMaster Family Med MassGeneral Medicine