Professional education
September 18, 2025
How visual abstracts can help enhance uptake of research (and how to create them)
Topic(s): Academic publishing, Paediatrics and Child Health, Professional education
While creating a visual abstract, don’t overthink it! You don’t have to spend hours or be a graphic designer to make one. Paediatrics & Child Health is looking for visual material that complements the paper. Read more
April 25, 2025
It’s harder than it sounds: Prioritizing physician wellness
Topic(s): Advocacy, Mental health, Paediatric practice, Professional education
CPS President Dr. Johanne Harvey wants her paediatric colleagues to take better care of themselves. But she recognizes prioritizing wellness can be easier said than done. Read more
March 26, 2025
Nutrition is a vital sign
Topic(s): Advocacy, Chronic and complex conditions, Paediatric practice, Professional education
Nutrition impacts children’s health and development in profound ways. Currently, Canadian children are consuming an excess of sodium, sugar, and saturated fat, and too little fibre, calcium, and vitamin D. So where do parents learn about… Read more
February 26, 2025
Racism in Medical Education: Time for change
Topic(s): Advocacy, Antiracism, Professional education
Racism in medical education is not just a theoretical problem—it affects real lives, from learners, educators and staff to the patients, caregivers and communities they serve. Despite efforts to promote social justice, systemic biases and… Read more
December 16, 2024
New CPSP study aims to close data gaps on substance use and overdose trends in youth
Topic(s): Advocacy, Paediatric practice, Professional education, Research and surveillance, Safety and injury prevention
In 2022, a one-time CPSP survey exposed an increasing rate of exposure to opioids, sedatives, and stimulants in youth 12-18 years old. The same team—led by Drs. Matthew Carwana, Nicholas Chadi, and Eva Moore—has recently launched a… Read more
October 31, 2023
Lifelong learning is vital to providing culturally safe care
Topic(s): Professional education, Advocacy
Learning to provide culturally safe care is a lifelong process, says Dr. Kent Saylor—and completing the new eCME on providing culturally safe care for Indigenous patients is a great place to start.Dr. Saylor, a paediatrician in Kahnawake,… Read more
October 15, 2020
Your grandmother was right: Love really does build brains
Topic(s): Professional education
It used to be that grandparents’ wise comments about raising children were referred to as “motherhood and apple pie,” which somehow belittles that advice. An Iroquois grandmother’s counsel that fathers should never yell at… Read more
July 14, 2020
Decolonizing Health Care: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children
Topic(s): Advocacy, Professional education
The #aHand2Hold campaign, launched on January 24, 2018, sought to end a long-standing practice that systematically prevented caregivers and parents from accompanying their children during emergency medical evacuation (medevac) airlifts in Quebec.… Read more
April 15, 2020
Can we continue to recommend early allergenic food introduction during a pandemic?
Topic(s): Professional education, Public education
Dr. Elissa Abrams and Dr. Edmond Chan provide more information on this common question. Read more
March 26, 2020
Providing virtual care during a pandemic: A guide to telemedicine in the paediatric office
Topic(s): Professional education
Dr. Raphael Sharon shares tips on providing virtual care during a pandemic. Read more
Last updated: Aug 9, 2017