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Spotlight: Dr. Padmavathy Guntamukkala
If you know a community paediatrician who should be featured, please contact [email protected]. Dr. Padmavathy Guntamukkala Where were you born and where do you live now? I was born in India. After I finished my medical education, I… Read more
December 14, 2016
Spotlight: Dr. Julie St-Pierre
If you know a community paediatrician who should be featured, please contact [email protected]. Dr. Julie St-Pierre Where were you born? Where do you currently live? I was born on March 23, 1974, in Montréal. I currently practise community… Read more
September 27, 2016
Spotlight on community paediatricians: Dr. Trent Smith
If you know a community paediatrician who should be featured, please contact [email protected]. Spotlight feature: Dr. Trent Smith Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I graduated from UBC with a degree in Physical Education in 1992. I… Read more
June 15, 2016
Spotlight on community paediatricians: Dr. Karolyn Hardy
Spotlight is a new feature of the Paediatric Post. Each Spotlight piece will recognize a community paediatrician, sharing their unique story and the extraordinary contributions they’ve made to their communities. If you know a community… Read more
June 8, 2016
How can we model the RCPSC Health Advocate CanMEDS role?
By: Dr. Eleanor MacDougall, former Program Director, University of Manitoba Pediatric Residency This important question for paediatricians in training was answered by PGY3 residents in the University of Manitoba’s Paediatric Residency Program. They… Read more
April 27, 2016
Canada hosts the world’s paediatricians at IPA 2016
The Canadian Paediatric Society will host the 28th International Congress of Pediatrics in Vancouver, B.C., August 17-22. The conference theme, Community, Diversity, Vitality, reflects both the host city and the scope of the scientific program. The… Read more
January 25, 2016
Winter, colds and fevers: Getting newcomers talking
By: Dr. Chloé Langlois-Pelletier, Paediatric Resident at the University of Sherbrooke In December, some colleagues and I met with about 10 newly immigrated families at two information workshops we had prepared on the theme of winter, colds and… Read more
December 22, 2015
To make change, stay focused and be authentic: Physician advocates for refugee health
As the first planes carrying Syrian refugees to Canada were heading toward Toronto in December, two of the city’s foremost physician advocates for newcomer health were sharing their experiences with more than 100 webinar participants across Canada.… Read more
November 19, 2015
Medicine comes in all shapes and forms
National Resident Advocacy Day is an initiative of the CPS Residents Section and is supported by the Healthy Generations Foundation. This initiative aims to give residents hands-on experience in the CanMEDS role of health advocate and… Read more
October 15, 2015
Some of the most complex needs of my patients stem from poverty and not disease alone
Dr. Laura Stymiest, CPS member and Paediatric Resident at Dalhousie University and CPS member With Dr. Elizabeth Lee-Ford Jones, CPS member and Professor of Paediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto and Dr. Sarah… Read more
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