Medicine Canada

Hi everyone,

This community is now the official replacement for the r/MedicineCanada subreddit, which is now privated. Thank you to the moderator who reached out!

The community on Reddit was still being developed and it was quite small. I expect that to be similar in the early stages on Lemmy as well. While I have thoughts on how this community should be run, I'm also open to changing things up depending on how the community grows.

For now, I'm in agreement with how the other subreddit was being developed. If you would like to read the vision of the subreddit, you can find it here:

I want to help make this Subreddit into a Canadian equivalent for r/Medicine. While there is a lot of overlap, and a lot of Canadian physicians and medical professionals likely use the larger subreddit, it seems useful to have a space to focus discussions on the Canadian medical system.

In recent years, and especially in recent months, there's a clear need for a place where medical professionals in Canada can discuss relevant issues. Given that this can become a divisive topic where there are also often other stakeholders (political, financial, or otherwise) that may want to guide discussion and push certain views, I'm hoping to slowly develop the Subreddit and follow the model of r/Medicine. I hope that by doing so, the actual medical professionals will feel comfortable using this Subreddit for their discussions. I'm not affiliated with the moderators in r/Medicine, although I plan on reaching out to them for tips and supports while I set things up. As this would be a smaller community, even when full of users, I am also planning on communicating with and/or requesting a few other similar Subreddits, so I can redirect traffic accordingly.

June 8, 2023 — The Commonwealth Fund’s 2022 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care PhysiciansFootnote i focuses on the experiences of family doctors in 10 developed countries, including Canada. The 2022 survey results explore topics such as physicians’ workload, access to care, coordination of care and use of information technologies. These international comparisons provide an important perspective on the state of primary care in Canada and where improvements can still be made.

A decent discussion which pulls from a few recent reports. Since this is a community of healthcare professionals, you might already know most/all of this, but it's a nice place to start discussions or to share with friends/family :)