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- 11/15/2020
CFPC launches family medicine Indigenous health supplement
The document discusses seven key CanMEDS-FM roles: the family medicine expert, communicator, collaborator, leader, health advocate, scholar and professional—defining each in the context of Indigenous tradition. - 11/15/2020
Ray of hope for pharmacy grads
While about 1,000 candidates took the November exam, it was cancelled in Toronto, with Ottawa's capacity reduced. Two days before the scheduled OSCE, 80 pharmacy grads in Toronto and 40 in Ottawa were disappointed when they received notice they couldn't take the exam as scheduled. - 11/15/2020
Top 10 ways to avoid the common cold
- 11/15/2020
Nova Scotia pharmacist converts old ambulance into mobile flu vaccine clinic
Hatt typically sets up the clinic in the parking lot of a local community centre, dispensing with the need for more stringent COVID-19 protocols that would be needed for an indoor operation. - 11/15/2020
New Brunswick Public Health reports adverse events following three flu shots
Provincial authorities say they have advised the Public Health Agency of Canada of the issue and an alert has been posted to ensure other jurisdictions are aware of the situation in New Brunswick. - 11/15/2020
Keeping seniors safe in cold and flu season
- 11/14/2020
Pharmacists helping pharmacists
- 11/14/2020
Little miss perfect: a portrait
Lakshmi gave every appearance of being perfect. Her marks in undergraduate medical school were exceptional. She was intelligent, well prepared, charming and efficient. Always beautifully dressed, her hair was professionally blown out, her nails never ragged or chipped. Unlike the other often frazzled and sleep-deprived members of her resident cohort, she never looked flustered, exhausted and overworked. - 11/12/2020
5 Tips: Enhancing adherence to inhaler therapy
Whether being used to treat asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory inhalers have very high nonadherence rates at 30%-to-70%.