Publications by authors named "Ryan J Giroux"

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.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Although often regarded as a foreign disease, latent tuberculosis or tuberculosis disease will be encountered in many clinical situations by the Canadian child health practitioner. There are key differences between tuberculosis in children and adults. In the present article, the changing epidemiology of tuberculosis in children in Canada and around the world, the pathogenesis of infection, diagnostic tests, and clinical management of childhood latent tuberculosis and tuberculosis disease are reviewed.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF