Today was ⁦Don Melady’s last shift in ⁦Sinai Health⁩ ED after an amazing and inspiring career. He took a passion for caring for the elderly and became a world leader with huge impact. Thank you Don and enjoy the next phase!! ⁦SREMI⁩ ⁦SAEM EBM IG⁩ ⁦

Jimmy Buffett, the legendary "Margaritaville" singer-songwriter, has died at age 76 cnn.it/45CGDTs

Dr. Judy Levitan. Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 1974. Invites 1st year McGill medical students to hang out over a few shifts. Wherever you are Dr. Levitan, thanks!

Lower extremity vascular anatomy – important figure to know for DVT #POCUS / #ultrasound Image by David Convissar, MD 🔗dx.doi.org/10.3791/64601-v

Will be attending to vote on this. There has been a frustrating lack of transparency on this decision. We are at a challenging time in Canadian medicine. We need to know how the decisions which concern us are made.

This is big news for workforce mobility with potential to help meet the needs for locum supports in rural Canada in new ways. #nationallicensure vancouversun.com/news/new-licen… @SRPCanada @SarahGiles10 Sean W Moore Dr. Alika Lafontaine MD

More than 1.3M Canadians left emergency rooms without being seen in 2022-2023: new data by Avis Favaro for CTV News ctvnews.ca/health/more-th… CAEP alan drummond

Ontario is investing over $108 million to further expand Ornge Air Ambulance’s fixed wing fleet with new state-of-the-art aircraft to better connect patients in rural and remote areas to urgent care. Learn more: news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

Thank you The College of Family Physicians of Canada and Dr Mike Green for this commitment. We need a college that is strong, united and committed to the future of FM together with family docs from coast to coast to coast. Thanks again for this statement.

Dive into eye foreign body removal with our new video on the Free App. Share your thoughts and help us improve! #MedEd #MedTwitter #FOAMed litfl.com/ocular-foreign…

How to give feedback without being a jerk: 1. Be a coach, not a critic. Aim to help, not attack. 2. Don't assert opinion as fact. You're sharing your subjective reaction, not the objective truth. 3. Be honest, not brutal. Be direct in what you say, but kind in how you say it.

In health & care, we often focus on a narrow concept of improving "staff experience", when we could be building a much deeper & more profound basis of human connection at work: a sense of belonging. Belonging is when an employee, regardless of their background or role, knows that

I love these "10 Commandments of #POCUS" from Paul Atkinson, just published online in CJEM Sage advice, Paul! doi.org/10.1007/s43678…

As predicted by CAEP years ago, Canada is going to have a massive shortage of emergency physicians. I just got a recruitment email from a single health region looking to hire 103 across their sites (~41.5% of the 248 physicians that enter EM training annually).

CAEP is doing a great job of naming the challenge & solutions. (Thank you!) We also need to make these very challenging working environments good learning settings for our trainees who we need to become excellent, inspired clinicians as part of the future facing HHR plan.

These “The ER is busy” advisories are not a public service. They are an admission of govt failure to meet the public’s basic needs. Well said ⁦Trevor Jain⁩ ⁦CAEP⁩ 1/2 cbc.ca/news/canada/pr…

Rest Takes Hard Work via TIME time.com/6566763/rest-t…

Should intubated TBI patients be placed in the semi-recumbant lateral position? This study says yes. In this RCT, they randomized patients to the usual semi-recumbant position versus lateral turning at >45 degrees. -100 patients enrolled -Lower BAL+ at 3d (18% versus 50%) and

NOSM University | Université EMNO Is meeting needs 4 doctors for N.Ont future. Higher than nat'l average entering FM. Complete matches in Peds, Anesthes, Ortho, 1st PGY new prog Urology and first time PGY 1 in Pub health. Open for second round. Come NORTH!!!! Dr. Sarah Newbery 💙💛 Rob Anderson CaRMS

Our first-round #CaRMS matches are in: 55% of #NOSMUniversity MD graduates chose #FamilyMedicine—higher than the Canadian average! OCFP Dr. Sarita Verma (She/Her) Family Medicine Forum #CrushingIt #MedEd #NorthernOntario