Mohammad Asadi-Lari’s Mohammad Asadi-Lari memory loomed large at #UofTGrad22 event today for Temerty Medicine graduates #UofTGrad22, who named the MD/PhD student their valedictorian posthumously. What a great loss😭 Mohammad Asadi-Lari 💙 uoft.me/80n Zeynab Asadi Lari University of Toronto @UofTNew

Here is the overall summary of our findings in an infographic. and link to the pre-print. If we extrapolate our findings from N=93, to all of GIM residents (N=225) then they collectively spend about 6,000 hours or 234 days !! on these onboarding tasks medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 8/9

Shout out to all of the PGY1s who completed our first call, got called "Dr" for the first time, placed our first order & gave our first Rx yesterday!🎉 And a bigger shoutout to the nursing team that acts as the backbone of our hospitals on July 1st (and beyond)

one of my very first attendings during M3 year advised me, "become the kind of doctor who people are excited to see is on call." i think about that every day—who do people trust to take care of their patients? who is humble and responsive? who is simply a delight to work with?

2/7 Satyam Choudhuri completed his PGY1 year in Psychiatry in June 2022. He was well-known for his warmth, kindness & commitment to improving health care for our community. Satyam was a staunch advocate for the wellbeing of students & his patients.

The latest from our team in Nature Medicine The long-term neurologic consequences of #COVID19 A thread 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4159… by Evan Xu Yan Xie Ziyad Al-Aly, MD

Just finished my Geriatrics rotation & I cannot reinforce enough how important it is for us to use translator services when interacting with patients with limited English proficiency. A privilege to play a small part in this study (and have Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher as my geri staff!)

Scale up what works so that everyone in Canada can be supported in a choice to die well at home, argues Andreas Laupacis in new editorial. Home-based palliative care in Canada: time for this to be an option for everyone: cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.…

Long awaited StatsCan survey-based data on Long COVID • 1.4 million Canadians with symptoms extending 3 months • Most common symptom fatigue, breathlessness and ‘brian fog’ among ~1/3 of all people with long COVID 1/2 www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quoti…

73% of Residents in Canada say the transition to #CompetencebyDesign had a negative impact on their wellness in recent survey by @royalcollege @residentdoctors. Our work on #assessmentburden explains what can be done to improve it: doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D…

Powerful deputation from Carolyn Snider, representing all downtown emergency depts. In the middle of a healthcare crisis, emergency depts are providing shelter and supports for homelessness because people have nowhere else to go. We need dedicated 24/7 drop-in spaces, now.

This is Toronto last night in -29 C weather taken by chris young. People have nowhere to go. The state of homelessness is a health crisis. We need more humanity in our public policy and every level government to end homelessness now.

This day is one blip in what is and will be your incredible career. My first match day was …horrible. Feel every big feeling. Please reach out. You’re not alone. Ultimately, my running motto became my match motto “one foot in front of the other, just keep going”

What happens when an RCT is timed to be published w/ a conference presentation? They end up with a lot more attention: higher Altmetric score and 20 more citations compared to RCT in same journal w/o time presentation! Congrats to Emily Hughes for leading this work!! 1/3

Farewell from the 2022-2023 OMSA Executive Board and congratulations/ welcome to all the new courageous and talented individuals who were successful in the 2023-2024 Board Elections (details to come)!

As of Dec 1 I’m taking a role with Ontario Public Service to chair a small but mighty team tasked with primary care reform, to make sure everyone in Ontario is attached to a family doctor or NP providing ongoing comprehensive care in a publicly funded team news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

#Onelxn debate recap: The crisis in family medicine was the first topic of the night. While it was promising to hear leaders discuss their plans to address this, we are still missing real solutions for other key challenges facing patients and physicians. #ONhealth