Operation Remote Immunity: exploring the impact of a service-learning elective in remote Indigenous communities.

Background: The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, emerged in December 2019. Shortly after, vaccines against the virus were distributed in Canada for public use, but the remoteness of many northern Indigenous communities in Ontario posed a challenge for vaccine distribution and dissemination. The Ministry of Health partnered with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (NOSMU) and the air ambulance service, Ornge, to assist in delivering the vaccination doses to 31 fly-in communities in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Moosonee, all within Ontario.

Does a one-day workshop improve clinical faculty's comfort and behaviour in practising and teaching evidence-based medicine? A Canadian mixed methods study.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a 1-day evidence-based medicine (EBM) workshop on physician attitudes and behaviours around teaching and practicing EBM.

Design: A mixed methods study using a before/after cohort.

Setting: A medical school delivering continuing professional development to 1250 clinical faculty over a large geographic area in Canada.

Milestones on the social accountability journey: Family medicine practice locations of Northern Ontario School of Medicine graduates.

Objective: To assess the effect of different levels of exposure to the Northern Ontario School of Medicine's (NOSM's) distributed medical education programs in northern Ontario on FPs' practice locations.

Design: Cross-sectional design using longitudinal survey and administrative data.

Setting: Canada.

What women expect of family physicians as maternity care providers.

Objective: To explore women's expectations and experiences of family physicians as maternity care providers.

Design: In-depth semistructured one-on-one interviews were conducted at 36 weeks' gestation and at 6 weeks postpartum.

Setting: Family practices in Halifax, NS.