Shortly after completing training as a radiation oncologist, Charles Hayter’s father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He soon found that his medical training did not prepare him for his new reality. Hayter talks about the inspiration for his new novel, Cancer Confidential: Backstage Dramas in the Radiation Clinic, and his writing process in this interview […]
Posted: Friday November 4, 2022
Polly Morland writes about the importance of longitudinal, primary care physician-patient relationships in rural England and the role stories play in those encounters in this piece for The Guardian.
Posted: Monday August 15, 2022
A great piece in the The New Yorker in which Jerome Groopman reflects on the literary tradition of physician writing and how storytelling offers physicians the opportunity to process their experiences. New Yorker Website
Posted: Monday July 25, 2022
Nick Pimlott, an academic family physician at Women’s College Hospital and in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, reflects on the unique and valuable features of in-person learning and patient interactions for physicians-in-training. Read the op-ed here.
Posted: Saturday June 11, 2022
The latest creative reflection piece in CMAJ by Daniel Rayson, medical oncologist and Foundational Certificate alum.
Posted: Tuesday February 22, 2022
In this piece for Catapult, Anthony Ocampo shares the surprising benefits that come with writing creatively as an academic. For doctoral students engaged in research, creative writing can reveal diverse ways of telling stories and sharing ideas with broader audiences.
Posted: Wednesday January 19, 2022
Daniel Rayson, medical oncologist and alum of our Foundational Certificate, reflects on the physician-patient relationship in “Cardio-Oncology.” Journal of Clinical Oncology
Posted: Friday September 10, 2021
In this piece in CFP, family physician and Foundational Certificate alum Amita Dayal reflects on practicing medicine during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted: Sunday September 5, 2021
Jennifer Blake, Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Toronto and alum of our Foundational Certificate has a poem published in the anthology: Poetry for Sexual and Reproductive Justice. Read her poem “Infertile” here.
Posted: Sunday September 5, 2021
Conor McDonnell’s debut poetry collection, Recovery Community, was published in early 2021. Exploring the connections between trauma, illness, and loss, the poems in this collection meditate on doubt, conflict, and resilience. McDonnell is a pediatric anesthesiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children and alum of our Foundational Certificate. Read more from the publisher.
Posted: Sunday February 14, 2021
