CMPA Perspective

In this issue:

Message from the CEO

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  Practical support for physicians during COVID-19 2 min

Legislation

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  The continuing evolution of medical assistance in dying 9 min

Your practice

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  College complaints during COVID-19: What to do if you receive a complaint 7 min

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  Challenging patient encounters: How to safely manage and de-escalate 7 min

Safe medical care

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  Vaccinating: Doing it safely, and addressing vaccine hesitancy and refusal 8 min

In this issue:

Message from the CEO

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  Being there for you during COVID-19 2 min

Safe care

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  Safe care amid the pandemic—virtually and in person 6 min

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  Deferred care during the pandemic 6 min

Safe surgical care

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  Performing lower extremity joint surgery? 7 min

Safe emergency care

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  Ambulance offload delay at the emergency department: Clarifying your duty of care 7 min

Your practice

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  Know what you’re signing: Employment contracts, procedural protection, and CMPA assistance 5 min

In this issue:

Message from the CEO

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  Listening and learning to continue to support you 2 min

Safe care

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  Leadership essentials: 3 steps to creating psychological safety 7 min

Safe medical care

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  Capacity assessments: Understanding the challenges for physicians 6 min

Practice improvement

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  Results and expectations: Test follow-up and the office-based family physician 7 min

Communication

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  Engaging patients in their own care: Patient decision aids 6 min

Safe surgical care

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  Can intraoperative decisions be diagnostic errors? 8 min

In this issue:

New CEO’s first message to our members

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  Message from Dr. Lisa Calder, CMPA Chief Executive Officer: We are here for you. We will modernize the CMPA. We will do so collaboratively. 3 min

Physician wellness

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  CMPA physician advisors offer meaningful support for your health 4 min

Mental health care for patients

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  Mind the gap: Challenges for safe mental health care 6 min

Information privacy

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  Why do you need to know? A balancing act for accessing personal health information 7 min

CMPA Council

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  View the 2020 election results

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  Learn about the 2020-2021 CMPA Council members

In this issue:

Uncertainty and moral distress

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  Message from Dr. Debra Boyce, CMPA President: Moral distress: The cost of uncertainty during a pandemic 4 min

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  COVID-19: Physician moral distress 18 min

Scarce resources

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  Scarce resources: Caring for patients during COVID-19 4 min

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  COVID-19: Reasonable care 15 min

Virtual care

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  Providing virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic 3 min

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  COVID-19: Virtual care 19 min

End-of-life care

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  End-of-life: Planning for compassionate care during COVID-19 4 min

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  COVID-19: Advance care directives 18 min

Ethical decisions

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  Navigating triage protocols amid COVID-19 3 min

Microlearning activities

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  Virtual care

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  Change in scope of practice

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  How the CMPA helps members

In this issue:

• Feature: Writing with care
• My patients, my records?
• Hidden impacts of the opioid crisis: Rare infections are on the rise
• Challenging patient encounters: How to safely manage and de-escalate
• Closing or leaving a practice: Tips for primary care physicians

In this issue:

• From the CEO: Evolving to better meet your needs
• Feature: Team debriefs: Participate and minimize your medical-legal risks
• Early detection of colorectal cancer can help save a patient’s life
• Cannabis legalization in Canada, one year later: Questions from members
• The diagnostic challenges of chest pain: Recognizing acute coronary syndrome
• Disclosing harm associated with pathological analysis or diagnostic imaging: A team-based approach

In this issue:

• From the CEO
• 2019 CMPA Annual Meeting and Conference
• Can AI assist you with your clinical decisions? Looking at the benefits and risks of AI technologies in medicine
• Recognizing subarachnoid hemorrhage: The role of situational awareness in preventing serious patient harm
• Accepting new patients: Guidance for specialists
• Walk-in clinics: Unique challenges to quality of care, medical-legal risk

In this issue:

• From the CEO
• What happened to the physical exam?
• Hit the brakes: Do you need to report your patient’s fitness to drive?
• Medical-legal cases in spinal surgery: 3 essential lessons
• When patients make special requests, how should you respond?
• Texting safely about patient care: Strategies to minimize the risks

In this issue:

• From the CEO
• Message from the CMPA President: Supporting members in a changing healthcare environment
• Closing the loop on effective follow-up in clinical practice
• Advance care planning the key to person-centred end-of-life care
• Prenatal tests for genetic screening and diagnosing: Changes, choices, challenges
• Is it time to rethink your use of chaperones?
• If a colleague relies on your professional opinion, you may have a duty of care