CMAJ Podcasts

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 professor in the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University and geriatric medicine scientist for the Nova Scotia Health Authority. Dr. Kenneth Rockwood is a professor of geriatric medicine and neurology at Dalhousie University, a CIHR researcher, and a staff physician. Along with their co-authors, they published a research article in CMAJ.Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.161034To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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 have been changed to protect the identity of the family. His article, titled "The Expert", was published in the CMAJ. The story received an honourable mention for the 2016 Annual Undergraduate Narrative Award for Palliative Care from the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians.Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.161369-----------------------------------For more stories like this one, get your copy of CMAJ’s Encounters Book. This anthology of prose and poetry of some 100 Canadian authors including Drs. David Goldbloom, Shane Neilson, Allan Peterkin and Monica Kidd, has been specially curated and includes a study guide. https://shop.cma.ca/products/encounters-----------------------------------To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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 article, titled "Lessons from a child", was published in the CMAJ. The story is read by Dr. Ken Flegel, senior editor for CMAJ.Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.161309-----------------------------------For more stories like this one, get your copy of CMAJ’s Encounters Book. This anthology of prose and poetry of some 100 Canadian authors including Drs. David Goldbloom, Shane Neilson, Allan Peterkin and Monica Kidd, has been specially curated and includes a study guide. https://shop.cma.ca/products/encounters-----------------------------------To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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 compromised the integrity of the clinical trial.Dr. Stephen Mawdsley is Wellcome Trust Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland and specializes in the history of American race, medicine, and health.Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.170232To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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 article, published in CMAJ, called "On becoming a full partner in care." The article is an abbreviated version of a lecture she presented at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine annual meeting in September 2016.Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.161284-----------------------------------For more stories like this one, get your copy of CMAJ’s Encounters Book. This anthology of prose and poetry of some 100 Canadian authors including Drs. David Goldbloom, Shane Neilson, Allan Peterkin and Monica Kidd, has been specially curated and includes a study guide. https://shop.cma.ca/products/encounters-----------------------------------To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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 medical graduate specialized in medical microbiology and research associate at the Dalhousie University Canadian Center for Vaccinology in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. ElSherif and her co-authors recently published the results of their trial in the CMAJ.Full research article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.170074To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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. She tells us about her encounter with one memorable patient. The story is true.Her article, titled "A reflection on practising medicine 'up North', was published in the CMAJ.Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.161100-----------------------------------For more stories like this one, get your copy of CMAJ’s Encounters Book. This anthology of prose and poetry of some 100 Canadian authors including Drs. David Goldbloom, Shane Neilson, Allan Peterkin and Monica Kidd, has been specially curated and includes a study guide. https://shop.cma.ca/products/encounters-----------------------------------To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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 in the CMAJ in which she and her co-authors looked at the rates of severe outcomes in mom and baby after use of forceps and/or vacuum at midpelvic station. They then compared these rates with cesarean delivery. Ms. Muraca explains their findings in this podcast.Full research article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.161156To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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 an article published in the CMAJ called "Two documents." He reads it for listeners in this podcast. The story is true.Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.161287-----------------------------------For more stories like this one, get your copy of CMAJ’s Encounters Book. This anthology of prose and poetry of some 100 Canadian authors including Drs. David Goldbloom, Shane Neilson, Allan Peterkin and Monica Kidd, has been specially curated and includes a study guide. https://shop.cma.ca/products/encounters-----------------------------------To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions

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 women to speak out in the 1980s. She takes listeners through the fascinating history of tampons and laboratory testing.Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.161479To request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caSubscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.Comments or questions? Text us.Join us as we explore medical solutions that address the urgent need to change healthcare. Reach out to us about this or any episode you hear. Or tell us about something you'd like to hear on the leading Canadian medical podcast.You can find Blair and Mojola on X  @BlairBigham and @DrmojolaomoleX (in English):  @CMAJ X (en français): @JAMC FacebookInstagram: @CMAJ.ca The CMAJ Podcast is produced by PodCraft Productions