The GenerEhlist - CCFP Exam Prep, Low Risk Obstetrics & Canadian Primary Care Medicine

  Hosts: Eleanor Crawford and Caleb Dusdal Guests: Drs Paul Dhillon and Simon Moore CCFP Exam and Medical Education Gurus and the Duo behind the Nation-Wide 'The Review Course'. Rather than specific key topic review today, we are very pleased to be able to bring you the gurus of the CCFP Exam and medical education in general, as well as the duo behind the nation-wide 'The Review Course'. Drink in...

While the title of this key topic makes me uncomfortable, the excellent and succinct script is wonderful.   Written By: Dr Nova Zhao - Family Physician - Halifax Nova Scotia Reviewed By: Dr Tania Wong - Paediatrician & Assistant Professor of Community Paediatrics at Dalhousie  

Caleb Dusdal and Dr Kristin Dawson discuss the CCFP Objectives for Heart Failure. Lots of crazy sounds, and tons of laughter as ever. Enjoy.

Join us as we update the Dizziness episode with the expertise of vertigo guru, Dr Peter Johns. When he isn't trying to update the medical internet community into more clinically useful vertigo management, he is working as an ER Physician in Ottawa, as well as in the Rapid Access Dizziness(RAD) clinic helping dizzy patients. Here we update the prior episode with clinical pearls like: do not bother...

    Written By: Dr. Khash Farzam Peer Review By: Dr Kristin Dawson  

    Episode Written by : Kyla Freema, PGY2 Family Medicine Episode Reviewed by : Elaine Godwin, Family Practice Low Risk Obstetrics Hosts : Kyla Freeman, Patricia Massel, Caitlin Blewett Image Art : Aikansha Chawla  

    Written By: Josh Piemontesi, FM PGY1 - Black Diamond AB Peer Review By: Caleb Dusdal Join Caleb Dusdal and Josh Piemontesi in reviewing all of the CCFP Exam Objectives for the ubiquitous Headache.  

Written By Dr Jessica Dawson Expert Review: Dr Jennifer Ringrose, Internist in Edmonton, AB Hypertension is one of those issues that we encounter every day in family practice, whether in the office or acute settings. Roughly one in four to one in five Canadian has hypertension. It is a top modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and the number one cause of death and disability worldwide...

Today's episode is a continuation of Episode 9, where we delve into the details of the newborn exam, reviewing both the subtle and the serious findings you may come across. In Part 2, we cover the chest and down. We will review upper-limb birth traumas, approach to murmurs, the differential for increased work of breathing, emergent management of abdominal wall defects, the approach to the infant w...

  Written By: Eleanor Crawford Review By: Sonja Poole Join Caleb Dusdal and Eleanor Crawford in review the CCFP objectives for the Key Topic 'Grief', with splashes of interesting stories and clinical pearls.

  Written By: Braedon Paul Expert Review By: Dr Jordan Iannuzzi - GI Fellow, Calgary AB  

The newborn exam can be completed quickly, but careful attention needs to be paid for any abnormalities.   Episode Written By : Kyla Freeman PGY2 Rural Family Medicine Episode Reviewed By : Dr. Ram Venkata, Paediatrician Hosts : Kyla Freeman & Patricia Massel Episode Art : Aikansha Chawla   With these episodes we hope to highlight common and critical abnormalities, the differentials for abnormal f...

Written By: Kyla Freeman Peer Review: Caleb Dusdal Kyla has continued to amaze with this episode covering the CCFP Objective for Gender Specific Issues in Primary Care. We discuss domestic violence, medical conditions that present differently depending on the patient's sex, gaps in research, trauma informed care, and caring for your patients from the LGBTQ2 community.

Join Caleb Dusdal and Braedon Paul in discussing the CCFP objectives for the Key Topic of Fractures. In true Braedon Paul fashion, this is done in the form of cases. Written By: Braedon Paul - PGY1 FM - UBC Victoria Expert Review By: Dr Babak Salamati - Sports Medicine Physician - Regina, SK Artwork by: Aikansha Chawla

Written by Karkirat Singh - MS-4 UofA, join Caleb Dusdal and Sarah Donnelly as we go through all you should need to know around fever for the CCFP Board exam, and clinical life.

  Join Shaila Gunn in a wonderful discussion on the patient perspective of living with disability and experiences with Primary Care. A massive thank you to this episode's guest Lynda Bennett

    Written By: Caleb Dusdal Expert Review By: GP Palliative Care specialists at Foothills Hospital in Calgary Alberta Dr Amir Surmawala @AmirSurmawala and Dr. Katherine Liu Episode Art By: Aikansha Chawla Because of our unique circumstance as Family Doctors, Often we are going to be the ones uncovering and sharing life-threatening and life-limiting  diagnoses with our patients. Alongside this, we...

    Written By Sonja Poole - PGY1 FM Yellowknife, NWT Reviewed by: Eleanor Crawford  

    Episode Written By : Patricia Massel, Rural Family Medicine PGY2 Episode Reviewed By : Charley Boyd, GP in Camrose, AB Hosts : Kyla Freeman (FM-PGY2), Patricia Massel (FM-PGY2), & Caitlin Blewett (MS4) Episode Art : Aikansha Chawla     s episode we explore the world of placental abnormalities. We will review placenta previa, acreta spectrum disorders, and cord anomalies including velamentous c...

    Written & Researched By: Thomsen D'hont Peer Review By: Shaila Gunn (MS4 UBC) Episode Art By: Aikansha Chawla Join Thomsen and Caleb as we cover the seven key CCFP topic objectives for Epistaxis. Learn how to teach your patients to correctly squeeze the nose, an approach to epistaxis even if recurrent, when to refer, and workup and differential.    

Written By: Shaila Gunn, MS4 UBC Expert Reviewed By: Dr. Bonita Sawatzky, an orthopaedics biomechanics researcher at iCORD spinal cord injury research center in BC     

Written By: Kajsa Heyes Peer Review By: Thomsen D'hont A review of acute otitis externa, otitis media with effusion, acute otitis media and the broad differential to consider. We also review worrying complications and the CPS approach to management.

  Episode Written by : Kyla Freeman, Rural Family Medicine PGY2 Episode Reviewed by : Virginia Clark, FP practicing rural and urban obstetrics Hosts : Kyla Freeman (FM-PGY2), Patricia Massel (FM-PGY2), Caitlin Blewett (MS4) Episode Art : Aikansha Chawla   In today's episode we explore weight, diet, and exercise. We review the complications of BMIs outside of the normal range, the weight gain recom...

Written By: Jessica Dawson Peer Review By: Caleb Dusdal The GenerEhlist team continues the journey through the 105 CCFP Key Topics, with Fatigue, the first episode written by Dr Jessica Dawson from Edmonton, AB.