Vol. 11 No. 6 (2020)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.v11i6

Published: 2020-12-07

Editorial

This is a valuable editorial on assertiveness!

Marcel F. D'Eon

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Original Research

Patients as teachers: Evaluating the experiences of volunteer inpatients during medical student clinical skills training

Michael David Elfassy, Laura Duncan, Alison Green, Hening Sun, Tim Guimond, Katina Tzanetos, Joyce Nyhof-Young

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Identifying essential procedural skills in Canadian undergraduate medical education

Frank Battaglia, Céline Sayed, Maria Merlano, Meghan McConnell, Christopher Ramnanan, Jennifer Rowe, Hao Wang, Vishesh Patel, Nikhil Rastogi

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Residents’ perspectives: Does the Saudi general surgery residency training program apply CanMEDS competencies and prepare future leaders?

Deena Hadedeya, Ghofran Ageely, Nourah Alsaleh, Hajar Aref, Omar Al-Sharqi, Saif Al-Horani, Osman Hamour

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Developing a dashboard to meet the needs of residents in a competency-based training program: A design-based research project

Robert Carey, Grayson Wilson, Venkat Bandi, Debajyoti Mondal, Lynsey Martin, Rob Woods, Teresa Chan, Brent Thoma

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Will I publish this abstract? Determining the characteristics of medical education abstracts linked to publication

Jean-Michel Guay, Timothy J. Wood, Claire Touchie, Chi Anh Ta, Samantha Halman

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Brief Reports

Cause for concern: Resident experience in operative trauma during general surgery residency at a Canadian centre

Paul Engels, Andrew Versolatto, Qian Shi, Angela Coates, Timothy Rice

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Mobile medical simulation for rural anesthesia providers: A feasibility study

Kalyani Premkumar, Valerie Umaefulam, Jennifer O'Brien

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Why you should Mini-Med School: Mini-Med School as an intervention to increase health literacy

Sergiy Shatenko, Samuel Harder, Jane Gair

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Medical Assistance in Dying in health sciences curricula: A qualitative exploratory study

Janine Brown, Donna Goodridge, Lilian Thorpe

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Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education

Hannah Samuels, Vanessa Rojas-Luengas, Arman Zereshkian, Shirley Deng, Jenna Moodie, Paula Veinot, Ashna Bowry, Marcus Law

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Reviews, Theoretical Papers, and Meta-Analyses

A narrative review of ambulatory care education in Canadian internal medicine

Gillian Spiegle, Penny Yin, Sarah Wright, Stella Ng, Tara O'Brien, Farah Friesen, Michael Friesen, Rupal Shah

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Recent evidence on visual-spatial ability in surgical education: A scoping review

Portia Kalun, Krista Dunn, Natalie Wagner, Thejodhar Pulakunta, Ranil Sonnadara

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Peer mentoring in medical residency education: A systematic review

Helen Pethrick, Lorelli Nowell, Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci , Liza Lorenzetti, Michele Jacobsen, Tracey Clancy, Diane L. Lorenzetti

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Canadiana

Caring for refugees and asylum seekers in Canada: Early experiences and comprehensive global health training for medical students

Kate Merritt, Kevin Pottie

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Medical education advances and innovations: A silver lining during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nishila Mehta, Céline Sayed, Rishi Sharma, Victor Do

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You Should Try This

Peers United in Leadership & Skills Enhancement: A near peer mentoring program for medical students

Adam Neufeld, Zachary Huschi, Amanda Ames, Greg Malin, Meredith McKague, Krista Trinder

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Internal Medicine Enrichment and Development: A summer exploration program for pre-clerkship students

Alexandra Kobza, Kaitlin Endres, Shaima Kaka, Katina Zheng, Sarah Elias, Mimi Deng, Brandon Budhram, Aimee Li

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Mental health night: A peer-led initiative

Hannah Kearney, Becky Jones, Jia Hong Dai, Ivana Burcul

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A smartphone app for intensive care unit rotation orientation

Olga Bednarek, Osama Loubani, Samuel Jessula, Samuel Minor

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An LGBTQ+ mentorship program enriched the experience of medical students and physician mentors

Rachelle Beanlands, Lilian Robinson, Shannon Venance

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Commentary and Opinions

COVID-19: An urgent opportunity to decrease financial barriers to medical school admissions

Justin Lam, Chantal Phillips, Ike Okafor

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Limitations in virtual clinical skills education for medical students during COVID-19

Yaanu Jeyakumar, Deepanshu Sharma, Giovanna Sirianni, Joyce Nyhof-Young, Mirek Otremba, Fok-Han Leung

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The new normal: Medical education during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Rahim Kachra, Allison Brown

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A plea for program evaluation in a pandemic

Russell Dawe

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Art of medicine, art as medicine, and art for medical education

Patricia Lynn Dobkin

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The role of medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic response: A call for ethical guidelines

George Tjensvoll Kitching, Adrina Zhong, Emily Kogel, Krista Wilson, Sasha Létourneau, Yipeng Ge, Céline Sayed

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Virtually learning as we go: Reflections on medical education through COVID-19

Kerry Boyd, Mohammad Samad Zubairi

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COVID-19, curtailed clerkships, and competency: Making graduation decisions in the midst of a global pandemic

Janeve Desy, Adrian Harvey, Kevin Busche, Sarah Weeks, Michael Paget, Christopher Naugler, Lisa Welikovitch, Kevin Mclaughlin

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Resident physicians’ mental health during COVID-19: Advocating for supports during and post pandemic

Emma Gregory

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Letters to the Editor

Re: CaRMS at 50

Malcolm MacFarlane

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Response to letter to the editor “Re: ‘CaRMS at 50’”

Lisa Turriff, John Gallinger, Michel Ouellette, Eric Peters

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Re: “Medical students’ personal experiences, religion, and spirituality explain their (dis)comfort with a patient’s religious needs.”

Michael Chaikof

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Reply to letter to the editor

Sarah McCarty, Cindy Schmidt, Loes Nauta

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Relief for the exhausted post-positivist: New epistemological choices transcend positivism, relativism, and even post-positivism

Angus McMurtry

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Works-in-Progress

Evaluating the use of media on perceptions and behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic

Belma Kamencic, Jeremiah Wezenamo Acharibasam, Kalyani Premkumar, Christopher Ripplinger, Marcel D'Eon, Ana Sanchez

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Virtual care rotation for internal medicine residents during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tina Nham, Sahar Tabatabavakili, Ayelet Kuper, Rebecca Gilman Stovel

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Medical student stress and burnout: Before and after COVID-19

Adam Stacey, Marcel D'Eon, Gift Madojemu

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Development and use of a Virtual Objective Structured Clinical Examination

Jason A. Silverman, Jessica L. Foulds

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Images

Symphony of healthcare: Teamwork in medicine

Julia H. Miao, Kathleen H. Miao

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