Dr. Nick Pimlott interviews Dr. David Ponka, family physician and Director of The Besrour Centre at the College of Family Physicians of Canada.  Dr. Ponka discusses global health and the role of the Besrour Centre at the CFPC and its role in primary care in low and middle income countries.  Dr. Ponka also talks about his experiences practicing family medicine with Doctors Without Borders.

Dr. Ponka is the lead author of a paper that appears in the December 2019 CFP, entitled ‘Contrasting current challenges from the Brazilian and Canadian national health systems” https://www.cfp.ca/content/65/12/890 

As mentioned in this episode, If you have any feedback for Dr. Ponka, you can email him at [email protected]

Dr. Nick Pimlott interviews Dr. Roland Grad, a family physician and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. He is also a member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Dr. Grad is the lead author of an article in the August issue of CFP from the Prevention in Practice series entitled, “Age to Stop  - Appropriate Screening in Older Patients”.  Read the full article here: https://www.cfp.ca/content/65/8/543

Read Dr. Grad’s blog that was mentioned in the interview, “Family Medicine and The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care: Are we up for the challenge?” https://www.cfp.ca/news/2019/09/10/09-10

Dr. Nick Pimlott interviews Dr. Ross Upshur, author of a paper for Associated Medical Services Healthcare entitled,  “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and the Potential Impacts of the Practice of Family Medicine: A Briefing Document”.  Ross presented his paper at the CFPC’s 2019 Leaders’ Forum and the topic was part of the July 2019 editorial in CFP, “Family physicians of the future redux.  The robot will see you now?”.

Read the July 2019 CFP editorial:  https://www.cfp.ca/content/65/7/454

Read Dr. Upshur’s discussion paper: https://www.cfpc.ca/uploadedFiles/About_Us/Discussion-Paper-AI-Impacts-on-FM-AMS-CFPC-May2019.pdf

Dr. Nick Pimlott interviews Dr. John Bosomworth, author of a June 2019 Canadian Family Physician Clinical Review article entitled “Normal-weight central obesity: Unique hazard of the toxic waist”. Read the full article here: https://www.cfp.ca/content/65/6/399 

Join Dr. Nick Pimlott as he interviews Dr. Christina (Tina) Korownyk and Dr. Mike Allan, co-authors of a May 2019 Canadian Family Physician (CFP) Clinical Practice Guidelines article, “Managing opioid use disorder in primary care: PEER simplified guideline.”  In addition to discussing the current guideline, Dr. Pimlott will explore the origins of the PEER Group and how they became involved in the development of clinical practice guidelines for family physicians. Read the full article: www.cfp.ca/content/65/5/321

In this Podcast, Canadian Family Physician Scientific Editor Dr. Nick Pimlott, interviews Dr. Cindy Shen and Dr. Vinita Dubey, authors of a March 2019 CFP clinical review article, "Addressing vaccine hesitancy. Clinical guidance for primary care physicians working with parents". To read the full article:

https://www.cfp.ca/content/65/3/175