So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:
International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.
Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
Thanks to the Trump administration, you can now just decide that you don’t know things—even if you do know them, @petridishes.bsky.social writes:
Make it viral.
So proud of Canada! https://apple.news/A65gtka99QbC2oWROoDpSyA
www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Involuntary treatment without medical evidence of benefit is just "jail". I'd respect you more if you were just honest about it: "we want to jail people with severe substance use disorders because we don't like seeing them".
As an addictions physician, the management of presumed opioid use disorder in E09 of #ThePitt is absolutely appalling. Full of judgement, bias, and deception.
In theory I agree with this - private NP clinics should be a no-go. But if designed inappropriately, this could easily mean the death of primary care family medicine in Canada. I'm extremely nervous. #cdnpoli #med www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America.
A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT.
Scary stuff.
📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Another innovative approach for #familymedicine #cdnpoli
I turned my rant
(about being offered a super large amt of money to go work in a “boutique clinic” and how such clinics are making the family doctor shortage worse)
into an oped at Healthy Debate
healthydebate.ca/2024/12/topi...
Retention is the key to HHR / physician recruitment. If we don't focus on retention first (and what's causing physicians to leave), recruiting is a fool's game. #skpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxBg...
Most Canadians are not aware there is yet another class of opioids, nitazenes, circulating in the illicit supply. These overdoses wouldn’t happen if we had legal, regulated supply. #cdnpoli
Pierre Poilievre would represent Canada terribly on the world stage
There’s an inverse relationship between Canadian pride and favourability of Pierre Poilievre. The Conservative Party leader is only able to appeal to people by criticizing and talking down Canada, the country we love.
A resolution put forward to UN security council called for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" and separately demanded the release of hostages.
Only the US voted against the resolution, using its veto power as a permanent council member to block it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
And "appropriate practice" would be in aggregate: "over time, how are our graduates serving (or not serving) or communities? What are the holes?"
And of course none of this would filter down to "punishment" at any individual level. Grads can go where they want. But if most of your graduates are leaving your defined community, it should be a measured KPI, and things should be adjusted.
I certainly don't have all (any?) of the answers :) But I think it would be important for medical schools to decide what their "community" is (for example, UofA serving NWT education/staffing needs, NOSM serving outside the GTA, etc.). They should be transparent with applicants/graduates.
To be clear, the onus would be on med schools but mostly so that their partners (health authorities, ministries, etc.) are incentivized to help them out. They certainly cannot be expected to achieve these outcomes alone. 4/4
To further emphasize the point, CFPC and RC should include HHR outcomes as core reqs to maintain accreditation. What's the point of a medical school that trains the wrong kind of docs, or trains docs who leave? 3/4
The question for med schools shouldn't be "how well are we preparing doctors for practice?", it should be "how many well-trained doctors are working 5 years out in the communities we serve?" Would align schools, the public, and MoHs 2/4