Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine articles from March 2006

Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine archives from March 2006

Introducing a nurse practitioner: experiences in a rural Alberta family practice clinic.
March 22, 2006... Objective: To report on the experiences of introducing a nurse practitioner (NP) into a rural physicians' clinic in Taber, Alberta. Design: Case study, grounded theory qualitative approach. Setting: A rural community-based family...

Health promotion needs of women living in rural areas: an exploratory study.
March 22, 2006... Objectives: To describe the types of health-promoting activities currently engaged in by women who live in rural communities, to explore perceived barriers and facilitators to staying healthy in rural communities, and to examine how these...

Sealer's finger.(Case Report/Observations de cas)
March 22, 2006... Introduction The people of Newfoundland continue to make a living from the ocean, and the seal hunt is an occupation and source of livelihood for Newfoundlanders in many rural areas of the province. Occupational injuries have always been...

Country cardiograms case 30.(The Practitioner/Le praticien)(ventricular tachycardia)
March 22, 2006... A sixty-seven-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department of a rural British Columbia hospital with symptoms of weakness and a sensation that her heart is racing. The following tracing is obtained (Fig. 1). [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] ...

The occasional extensor tendon laceration repair.(The Practitioner/Le praticien)
March 22, 2006... Introduction Rural physicians commonly have patients present to the emergency department with injuries to the hand. Occasionally, these injuries involve extensor tendons. Extensor tendon injuries are more common than flexor tendon...

Generalism versus subspecialization: changes necessary in medical education.(Podium: Doctors Speak Out/La parole aux medecins)(Discussion)
March 22, 2006... During the initial Partners Meeting of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), the Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Medical Council of Canada (MCC), and...

It takes more than rural roots to make a rural doc.(Residents' Page/Page des residents)
March 22, 2006... There is a significant gap between health care needs in rural Canada and the availability of health care professionals. Although 30% of Canadians live in rural communities, 17% of family physicians and 4% of specialists practise rurally. (1)...

Adverse drug reactions.(Out Behind the Barn/Dans le feu de l'action)(Health Canada's website)
March 22, 2006... MEDEFFECT WEB SITE WWW.MEDEFFECT.CA Health Canada has created a new Web site to make it easier for physicians to obtain information about adverse drug reactions and to report such events in their own practice. This article reviews the...

Potpourri/Pot-pourri.(Canadian Medical Association Journal, rural health)(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... Writers occasionally experience writer's block. I have the opposite problem. Too many subjects and too little time. So I will tackle 4 issues, roughly in order of their increasing importance to me. First, l'affaire Hoey. I have no idea if...

President's message. The perpetual challenge/ Message de la presidente. Un defi perpetuel.(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... Maclean's magazine produced a retrospective issue last fall that included a reprint of "The Future of Medicine" by Benge Atlee, published in 1933. A hypothetical discussion between a new graduate physician and Aesculapis touched briefly on...

Feasibility of same day discharge after mini-laparotomy cholecystectomy--a simulation study in a rural teaching hospital.
March 22, 2006... Objective: Open cholecystectomy is still widely practised, more so in the developing countries, due to the high cost of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. However, the long traditional postoperative stay (7-8 days) prevents rapid turnover and adds...