Running on empathy: the Royal Victoria Hospital’s emergency department

On March 25 2009, CTV Montreal ran a special report entitled Running on Empathy, which explores what it takes to work in an emergency room through the eyes of ER staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Smoking cessation and lung cancer treatment at the MUHC

Check out our two video podcasts to learn more about the Smoking Cessation Clinic and the new Lung Cancer Diagnostic Suite at the Chest Institute, which allows MUHC experts, like Dr. Anne Gonzalez, to diagnoses and treat lung cancers with great accuracy and less invasively than ever before.

HEALTH MATTERS: the MUHC on radio CKUT, 90.3 FM, Montreal |Le CUSM sur les ondes du poste de radio CKUT, Montréal

HEALTH MATTERS: the MUHC on radio CKUT, 90.3 FM, Montreal

The first MUHC Health Matters show on CKUT radio (90.3 FM) aired live at 8:15am on Monday morning (February 16, 2009).

Quality, Safety, Preparedness and Collaboration|Qualité, sécurité, état de préparation et collaboration

Quality, Safety, Preparedness and Collaboration

Quality, Safety, Preparedness and Collaboration: Local to global challenges and innovations - The first Fall Symposium of the McGill University Health Centre and the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China.

A medical leap of faith: making the right career choice

Robert is applying for a residency in pediatric medicine. He agreed to write a blog about the experience partly to relieve the stress and also as a meditation on what he has learned as a medical student and his aspirations as a physician. Latest entry: and the CaRMS match is.. (March 16, 2009)

New health technologies: how can we evaluate them?

The single biggest cost-driver for the health care system is new health technolgies: new diagnostic and treatment tools including pharmaceuticals. Will these new technologies truly improve patient care? Dr. Maurice McGregor is president of the Technology Assessment Unit of the MUHC. The following four talks provide an overview…

From Microscope to Stethoscope 2008 Lectures
Asthma: a breath of hope - Dr. R. Olivenstein

In their daily fight to breathe more easily, patients with severe asthma have until now used the arsenal of modern pharmacopoeia available to them. Dr. Olivenstein and his team now offer them a therapeutic alternative not based on medication: broncho-thermoplasty.

From Microscope to Stethoscope 2008 lectures
Autism demystified - Dr. E. Fombonne

From the genetic causes of the pathology in the neuropsychological development of the patients to the development of innovative treatments, Dr. Eric Fombonne’s scientific results enrich the clinical practice of his whole team, from diagnosis to patient follow-up.