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CFP Podcast

Canadian Family Physician (CFP), Dr. Nicholas Pimlott and Dr. David Ponka

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Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 87

Canadian Family Physician (CFP) is Canada's only peer reviewed family medicine journal. Join Dr. Nick Pimlott, Editor of CFP, and Dr. David Ponka, Associate Editor of CFP, as they interview contributing authors to the journal each month.

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The Rourke baby record at 40

Episode 79

jeudi 25 septembre 2025 • Duration 30:48

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Rourke Baby Record (RBR), a tool first developed by Drs. James and Leslie Rourke in their family practice in Goderich, ON to help them better care for babies and toddlers in their practice. The first version of the RBR was published in Canadian Family Physician in 1985 and since its initial publication it has gone on to be widely used in family medicine and primary care practices in Canada and around the world. Since its inception, Canadian Family Physician has published regular updates to the RBR. Join Editor Dr. Nick Pimlott as he interviews Dr. Imaan Bayoumi and Dr. Leslie Rourke about the most recent important updates to the Rourke Baby Record (https://www.cfp.ca/content/cfp/71/9/553.full.pdf).

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The journey of a pill

Episode 78

jeudi 24 juillet 2025 • Duration 35:16

Have you ever wondered how commonly prescribed medications are manufactured and distributed, eventually making their way to your friendly neighborhood pharmacist and ready for you to prescribe? Have you ever wondered what the environmental and climate impacts are? Find out in this episode of the CFP Podcast as Editor Dr. Nick Pimlott and Associate Editor Dr. David Ponka talk to family physician Dr. Myles Sergeant and engineer Harjas Kaur. Along with their colleagues Fiona Parascandalo, Gail Krantzberg, Emma Ko, Neha Mathur, Amandot Singh Gill and Falisha Razack they are the co-authors of a unique and innovative research study published in the April edition of CFP entitled “Journey of a Pill”.

Dr. Myles Sergeant is a family physician in the Hamilton Family Health Team and a Clinical Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton. He is also the McMaster University PGME Sustainable Healthcare Lead, the President of Trees for Hamilton (www.treesforhamilton.ca), the Partnership Lead for PEACH (www.peachhealthontario.com ) and the Executive Director of Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (www.greenhealthcare.ca). Harjas Kaur is an Engineer and Sustainability Consultant now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

To read their novel and important paper go to: https://www.cfp.ca/content/71/4/263. Enjoy the podcast!

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Graphic medicine

Episode 69

jeudi 29 août 2024 • Duration 29:00

Have you ever heard of graphic medicine? Have you wondered what is the difference between a comic and a cartoon? And how is this related to your work in the clinic? In this episode of the CFP podcast, Drs Nick Pimlott and Sarah Fraser interview author Susan MacLeod about all things graphic medicine. We dive into Susan’s professional experiences in government health communications and her transition into becoming an internationally acclaimed author. She then defines graphic medicine, gives us an overview of why it’s important, and how it relates to compassion and burnout in the health care system. Finally, Susan walks Nick and Sarah through a brief graphic medicine exercise-do try this at home!

https://www.graphicmedicine.org/book-series/graphic-medicine-manifesto/

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Navigating the landscape of health data, health informatics and digital health: a conversation with Dr Rashaad Bhyat

Episode 68

jeudi 11 juillet 2024 • Duration 50:59

In this episode of the CFP Podcast, join Deputy Editor Dr Sarah Fraser and Editor Dr Nick Pimlott in a wide-ranging discussion about health data, health informatics and digital health with Dr Rashaad Bhyat, a family physician and Senior Clinical Leader at the Centre for Clinical Innovation in Digital Health, a branch of Canada Health Infoway.

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Deprescribing sedatives: a discussion with two pharmacists

Episode 67

jeudi 13 juin 2024 • Duration 46:14

When are sleep aids indicated? What is the evidence behind melatonin? Why do sedatives put patients at risk for pneumonia?

Learn all this and more in this week’s episode of the CFP Podcast. Drs Sarah Fraser and Nick Pimlott interview two pharmacists about the topic of insomnia and deprescribing sedatives. Dr David Gardner is a pharmacist and the Director of Research in Community Psychiatry at Dalhousie University and Dr. Stephanie Lynch is a pharmacist with a Family Health Team in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University in Belleville, Ontario.

In this podcast, the guests share their expertise on the topic of insomnia. Topics covered range from the evidence on the effectiveness of sedatives, important side effects of these drugs, and approaches to deprescribing them for your patients.

Below you can find links to two of the resources mentioned by the guests:

https://mysleepwell.ca/

https://healthsci.queensu.ca/opdes/cpd/educational-programs-opportunities/insomnia

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Staying human during residency training

Episode 66

jeudi 30 mai 2024 • Duration 33:53

Join CFP Editor, Dr. Nick Pimlott, and Deputy Editor, Dr. Sarah Fraser, as they interview Dr. Allan Peterkin on the release of the 25th anniversary edition of the book “Staying Human During Residency Training: How to Survive and Thrive after Medical School”, which he co-authored with Dr. Derek Puddester. They discuss topics ranging from the pervasiveness of burnout in medicine, the value of the medical humanities and narrative medicine, continuing to find meaning in medicine, and why the book, now in its seventh edition, remains a valuable resource on being and staying well, not just for residents, but for all physicians.

Dr. Peterkin is a Professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Toronto, where he founded the Program in Health, Arts and Humanities. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and Senior Fellow at Massey College, co-founder of Creating Space-Canada’s annual medical humanities meeting, a co-founder of the award-winning Canadian literary journal Ars Medica, and has been a humanities editorial consultant to CMAJ and Medical Humanities (BMJ). Links to Drs. Peterkin and Puddester’s book can be found at https://utorontopress.com/9781487555474/staying-human-during-residency-training/. More information about Dr. Peterkin’s work in narrative medicine can be found at https://narrativebasedmedicine.ca/.

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Planetary health lens for primary care

Episode 65

jeudi 16 mai 2024 • Duration 28:02

Join CFP Deputy Editor, Dr. Sarah Fraser, and Editor, Dr. Nick Pimlott, as they interview Dr. Samantha Green and Dr. Ilona Hale about the concept of planetary health and the role that family doctors can and must play in ensuring it. Dr. Green is an academic family doctor in Toronto and the President-Elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). Dr. Hale is a rural family physician in Kimberley, BC with a longstanding interest in and commitment to planetary health. The interview is based on a Commentary that Drs. Green and Hale co-authored with Dr. Meghan Davis and Dr. Jessica Nowlan entitled “Planetary health lens for primary care: considering environmental stability offers benefits to patients and providers” in the April issue of Canadian Family Physician.

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The future of family medicine in Canada

Episode 64

jeudi 14 mars 2024 • Duration 45:20

Join CFP Editor Dr. Nick Pimlott as he interviews Dr. Alan Katz and Dr. Alex Singer, family physicians and family medicine researchers at the Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Dr. Katz is a Professor in the Departments of Community Health Sciences and Family Medicine. Dr. Singer is an Associate Professor and the Director for the Office of Research & Quality Improvement, and the Director of the Manitoba Primary Care Research Network. The interview is based on a Commentary article in the March issue of the journal entitled “The Future of Family Medicine in Canada”. Together they discuss four key ways to address the current crisis in Canadian family medicine to strengthen primary care.

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Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia

Episode 63

jeudi 22 février 2024 • Duration 25:33

In this episode of the podcast, Dr Sarah Fraser interviews Dr Shayna Watson about CBT for insomnia. They delve into the ins and outs of a non-pharmacologic approach to insomnia management, including the things you can do to help patients in your busy family medicine clinic.

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Quality of Mind – An Interview with the 2023 Ian McWhinney Lecturer Dr. Iona Heath

Episode 62

jeudi 1 février 2024 • Duration 50:15

Join Dr. Nick Pimlott and Dr. Sarah Fraser as they interview Dr. Iona Heath, the 2023 Dr. Ian McWhinney Lecturer at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University.

Dr. Heath’s McWhinney Lecture was published in the December 2023 issue of the journal. They discuss Dr. Heath’s discovery of Ian McWhinney’s “Quality of Mind” – the title of her lecture – when she first read his Textbook of Family Medicine as a young general practitioner, his lifelong influence on her thinking and practice, and how his ideas about the essential values of family medicine can help guide the profession through one of most challenging periods in its recent history.

Dr. Heath’s September 20th, 2023 Dr. Ian McWhinney Lecture can accessed here:

https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/familymedicine/about_us/dr_ian_mcwhinney_lecture_series/2023.html

The published lecture can be accessed here:

https://www.cfp.ca/content/cfp/69/12/821.full.pdf

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