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Ethics consultation has traditionally focused on the provision of expert guidance to health care professionals when challenging quandaries arise in clinical cases. Its role, however, is expanding as demands on health care organizations are negatively impacting their moral habitability. A sign of this impact can be seen in the moral distress experienced by staff and administrators, such that some leave their positions and their organizations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTeaching outside the clinical setting: Twelve steps to feeling more comfortable and capable with any invitation to teach, based on the Fundamental Teaching Activities Framework.
Can Fam Physician
April 2017
Chair of the College of Family Physicians of Canada Working Group on Faculty Development and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. Member of the Working Group on Faculty Development, which prepared the Fundamental Teaching Activities Framework.
Collaborative team-based health promotion in a primary care setting: The MOVE program.
Can Fam Physician
February 2017
Research coordinator, with CHANGE ALBERTA.
Objective: To assess a primary care-based, physician-led physical activity program for primary care patients.
Design: Initial assessment of a physical activity program for feasibility, patient satisfaction, and effectiveness.
Setting: A primary care network in Edmonton, Alta.
Assessing family history of chronic disease in primary care: Prevalence, documentation, and appropriate screening.
Can Fam Physician
January 2017
Objective: To assess the proportion of primary care patients who report a family history (FH) of type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, breast cancer, or colorectal cancer (CRC); assess concordance of FH information derived from the electronic medical record (EMR) compared with patient-completed health questionnaires; and assess whether appropriate screening was informed by risk based solely on FH.
Design: Data from the BETTER (Building on Existing Tools to Improve Chronic Disease Prevention and Screening in Primary Care) trial were used. Patients were mailed questionnaires.
Objective: To examine FPs' training needs for conducting decision-making capacity assessments (DMCAs) and to determine how training materials, based on a DMCA model, can be adapted for use by FPs.
Design: A scoping review of the literature and qualitative research methodology (focus groups and structured interviews).
Setting: Edmonton, Alta.
Extended family medicine training: Measuring training flows at a time of substantial pedagogic change.
Can Fam Physician
December 2016
Director of Education and the lead for the national implementation of the Triple C Competency-based Curriculum at the College of Family Physicians of Canada in Mississauga, Ont, and Full Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
Objective: To examine trends in family medicine training at a time when substantial pedagogic change is under way, focusing on factors that relate to extended family medicine training.
Design: Aggregate-level secondary data analysis based on the Canadian Post-MD Education Registry.
Setting: Canada.
What works best for nongenital warts?
Can Fam Physician
December 2016
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Background: Rehabilitation professionals offer expertise in functional assessment, treatment of impairments and functional limitations, and disability prevention. To optimize recovery, and often prior to participating in community-based exercise programming, survivors may need rehabilitation services from a range of healthcare professionals, including physiatrists, nurses, nutritionists, psychologists, and speech, occupational, and physical therapists.
Objectives: Survivors with physical impairments and functional limitations may benefit from interdisciplinary rehabilitation and physical therapy, including tailored therapeutic exercise interventions.
Primary care providers' experiences with and perceptions of personalized genomic medicine.
Can Fam Physician
October 2016
Objective: To assess primary care providers' (PCPs') experiences with, perceptions of, and desired role in personalized medicine, with a focus on cancer.
Design: Qualitative study involving focus groups.
Setting: Urban and rural interprofessional primary care team practices in Alberta and Ontario.
Coordination of cancer care between family physicians and cancer specialists: Importance of communication.
Can Fam Physician
October 2016
Objective: To explore health care provider (HCP) perspectives on the coordination of cancer care between FPs and cancer specialists.
Design: Qualitative study using semistructured telephone interviews.
Setting: Canada.
Patients' experiences with continuity of cancer care in Canada: Results from the CanIMPACT study.
Can Fam Physician
October 2016
Objective: To explore patient perspectives on and experiences with the coordination and continuity of cancer care.
Design: Qualitative study using semistructured telephone interviews.
Setting: Canada.
Helicobacter pylori status among patients undergoing gastroscopy in rural northern Alberta.
Can Fam Physician
September 2016
Objective: To determine the Helicobacter pylori status of patients who underwent gastroscopy.
Design: Retrospective chart review.
Setting: Peace River Community Health Centre in rural northwestern Alberta.
Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis with canagliflozin: Not-so-sweet but avoidable complication of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor use.
Can Fam Physician
September 2016
Professor, Director of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Medical Director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.