More medical graduates than ever choosing family practice

More medical graduates than ever choosing family practice.

644 CMAJ, June 16, 2015, 187(9) ©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors The College of Family Physicians of Canada has moved closer to its ultimate goal of having 45% of medical school graduates embrace its specialty, with 38.5% of graduates selecting family practice as their first choice of discipline in 2015. That percentage is little changed from 2014’s 38.2%, but gets the college within ...

Now more than ever, nurses need resilience.

I have been heartened over recent weeks by the many nurses and healthcare staff who have led the care of those caught up in the terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, as well as the catastrophic fire in London's Grenfell Tower.

Replication: Needed Now More Than Ever.

[Generalists are needed more than ever].

15 If today you want to keep up with basic and clin‐ ical research, you need to concentrate on a very small field and reach tremendous depths in this very field. And, actually, life is too short to also accumulate the knowledge necessary to do mean‐ ingful scientific work even on closely related top‐ ics. Hence, specialization is inevitable not only in research; it was a prerequisite for the de...

Clostridium difficile--more difficult than ever.

Copyright © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. In 1935, Hall and O’Toole first isolated a gram-positive, cytotoxinproducing anaerobic bacterium from the stool of healthy neonates.1 They named it Bacillus difficilis to reflect the difficulties they encountered in its isolation and culture. We now face the opposite problem of being unable to contain the growth and spread of the same bacterium, n...