Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volume 3 Issue 1

Table of Contents

Presidents Message

General Internal Medicine Training on the Rise

Bert Govig, MD

Bert Govig, MD

Message du Président

La reviviscence de la médecine interne générale

Bert Govig, MD

CSIM News

Continuing Professional Development: What the CSIM Can Do for You!

Don Echenberg, MD

Book Review

Life after Medicine: The Secret of Retirement Happiness

Colin Powell , MB

EKG&U

Good Intentions

George Veenhuyzen, MD

Perioperative Medicine

Perioperative Anemia

Josée Fafard, MD

Medical Ethics

The Promise and Perils of Advance Directives

Alister Browne, MD

Images in GIM

Cryptococcus neoformans gatti

John Ronald, MD

Case Reviews

Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-obstruction in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Marc-André Leclair, MD, Martin Plaisance, MD, Shana Balfour, MD, Matthieu Toughette, MD

Characteristics of Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies at Sherbrooke between 1998 and 2006

Luc Lanthier, MD, Laurie Malenfant, MD, Marie-Josée Lacelle, MD

Community GIM

Can You Prepare? Rural Internal Medicine, My First 5 Years

Amy Hendricks, MD

History of Medicine

Understanding Shock: A Brief History

Hector M. Baillie, MD

MedEd

A Descriptive Report of an Innovative Curriculum to Teach Quality Improvement Competencies to Internal Medicine Residents

Roger Y. Wong, MD, Kirk Hollohan, MD, J. Mark Roberts, MD, Rose Hatala, MD, Irene W. Y. Ma, MD, Barry O. Kassen, MD

Perspectives in GIM

Industry-Initiated Drug Trials Are Far Less Credible to Canadian Internists than Investigator-Initiated Trials

David L. Sackett, MD

Women's GIM

Toward the Prevention of Chronic Diseases in Women: Practicability of Early Interventions

Geneviève Bouchard Fortier, Jani Laramée, Suzanne Morin, MD