Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volume 2 Issue 4

Table of Contents

Presidents Message

A Job Well Done!

Bert Govig, MD

Message du Président

Beau travail!

Bert Govig, MD

Message from the Section Editors

Medical Humanities: A New Section for CJGIM

Donald Farquhar, MD, Jock Murray, MD

CSIM News 

Professional Development

Why Isn't Medical Genetics a Subspecialty in Internal Medicine

Donna Gilchrist, MD

EKG&U

A Christmas Conundrum 

George Veenhuyzen, MD

Research

Pictures of Heart Failure Care in Complex Medical Patients: Broad Strokes or Fine Details? 

Robert C. Wu, MD, Valerie A. Palda, MD, C. Mark Cheung, MD, Ed Etchells, MD, Arlene S. Bierman, MD, Chaim M. Bell, MD

Observations on the Transfusion Threshold at the Intensive Care Units of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

Catherine St-Pierre, MD, Lysanne Pelletier, MD Patrice Beauregard, MD, Olivier Lesur, MD, Luc Lanthier, MD

Case Review

Unravelling the Gordonian Knot

Vanessa Tremblay, MD, Jean-Francois Lajoie, MD, Luc Lanthier, MD

Une hypertension artrielle hyperkaliémique

Vanessa Tremblay, MD, Jean-Francois Lajoie, MD, Luc Lanthier, MD

Short Snapper from St. John's

My First Year in Practice

An Interview with Laura Heemskerk, MD

Examination Skills

Venous Examination for the Internist

Margot R. Roach, MD

GIM of Aging

Heart Failure in Older Adults

George A. Heckman, MD, Catherine Demers, MD, Robert S. McKelvie, MD, David B. Hogan, MD

Practice of GIM

CanMEDS in Practice: A Template to Optimize Patient Care

Sharon E. Card, MD, Heather Ward, MD, Anne PausJenssen, MD, Lisa PausJenssen, MD, Jenny Basran, MD, Willaim Dust, MD

The Use of eGFR in Clinical Practice

Bryce A. Kiberd, MD, Steven D. Soroka, MD

Medical Humanities

Professionalism: Use It or Lose It

Jock Murray , MD

Perioperative Medicine

Steroid Use in the Perioperative Period

Kelly Zarnke , MD

MedEd

Performance Assessment: The Touchstone of Learning

John Ruedy, MD

Resident GIM

Burma on Our Minds

Kerri Johannson, MD