Paediatr Child Health
November 2024
Eating disorders (EDs) are a group of serious, potentially life-threatening illnesses that typically have their onset during adolescence and can be associated with severe medical and psychosocial complications. The impact of EDs on caregivers and other family members can also be significant. Health care providers (HCPs) play an important role in the screening and management of adolescents and young adults with EDs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLes troubles des conduites alimentaires (TCA) désignent un groupe de maladies graves au potentiel mortel qui se déclarent généralement pendant l'adolescence et peuvent être associés à de graves complications médicales et psychosociales. Ils peuvent avoir d'importantes répercussions sur les proches et les autres membres de la famille. Les professionnels de la santé jouent un rôle important pour les dépister et les prendre en charge chez les adolescents et les jeunes adultes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new challenges to provide care and educate junior doctors (resident physicians). We sought to understand the positive and negative experiences of first-year resident physicians and describe potential ethical issues from their stories.
Method: We used narrative inquiry (NI) methodology and applied a semistructured interview guide with questions pertaining to ethical principles and both positive and negative aspects of the pandemic.
Background: Racialised trainees in Canada and the USA continue to disproportionately experience discrimination and harassment in learning environments despite equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) reform efforts. Using critical approaches to understand what problems have been conceptualised and operationalised as EDI issues within postgraduate medical education (PGME) is important to inform ongoing learning environment reform in resident training.
Methods: We conducted a critical narrative review of EDI literature from 2009-2022 using critical race theory (CRT) and the concept of intersectionality to analyse how issues of discrimination in PGME have been studied.
Background And Aims: By the 1960s, medicine experienced technological revolutions that enabled it to control and medicalize death in many circumstances. The modern conceptualization of "good death" emerged in the late 1960s with the beginning of the hospice movement, and palliative care became an official medical specialty in 1987. This project aims to elucidate how the idea of "good death" has been discussed and perceived since then, as well as the impact of medical technologies on death.
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