by Jim Yang, Kaitlin Endres, Josee Malette | Nov 19, 2020 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Medical Education, Thrombosis
Pulmonary embolism is often a nebulous diagnosis with various nuances. COMMON: They affect 25-100 people per 100,000, or approximately 30,000 Canadians every year Potentially FATAL: 3rd most deadly cardiovascular disease, after Heart Attack and Stroke Associated with...
by Jeff Landerville, Warren Cheung | Nov 12, 2020 | Featured, Infographics, Medical Education
A Competence Committee (CC) is a key component of Competence by Design (CBD), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s version of Competency-Based Medical Education. A CC is a sub-committee of the Residency Program Committee (RPC) that provides robust...
by Shahbaz Syed | Oct 29, 2020 | Commentary, Featured
You’re starting your shift, and you’re only moderately caffeinated. You meet your resident and they tell you that their goal for the shift is to “work on flow”. You think, cool – let’s see how many patients they see today. At least,...
by Simon Wells, Pascale King | Oct 22, 2020 | Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
A 65-year-old male self-presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with sudden-onset severe chest pain. The pain was sharp, lasted 30 minutes, and has now resolved. His vitals and ECG are normal, and his high-sensitivity troponin testing is negative. He has a normal...
by Jessica McCallum, Alex Coutin | Sep 24, 2020 | Featured, Global health, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Public health, Tropical Medicine
In part one of a two-part series on vector-borne illnesses, we seek to take a deep dive into Lyme disease and Malaria. For more on the other vector-borne illnesses, check out part two! The only helpful way to distinguish between all these illnesses is the...
