Meredith Vanstone

My research is about helping doctors and patients navigate uncomfortable, uncertain, and distressing areas of healthcare where clinical evidence doesn't exist or doesn't matter. 👇 more details about what I do here: fammed.mcmaster.ca/researcher-hel…

If you are interested in Family Medicine/General Practice education research at #AMEE2025, come and meet with us at 18h00 today in M127/128 to establish a collaborative network. All welcome!

All #AMEE2025 attendees interested in education research in the context of family medicine/general practice are invited to join a network meeting on Monday 25 Aug, 18:00 in MR 127/128

This might be the most insightful part of the entire trial. What matters to clinicians may not be what matters to our patients. Transfusion of a single unit, CT angio, and diagnostic endoscopy, all things that really matter to patients. #CCR24 #REVISEtrial

Kudos to the #REVISEtrial investigators for engaging patients and families to identify outcomes important to them #CCR24

@bezzinacara Congrats Cara! Where and what will you be studying?

Happy to present a poster at @CAHSPR conference in Ottawa!

The Dragons Den Pitch Competition features incredible Dragons (judges) @MGVanstone, @jenzelmer, and @StirlingBryan. Learn more and submit your expression of interest today! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🌷🪻Our April Newsletter is here! 🪻🌷 Have a read and find out how you can be part of the Dragons Den Pitch Competition and the Great CAHSPR Networking Marathon at #CAHSPR2024 Let's hear it for more opportunities for students and trainees! Woot! mailchi.mp/2ca43791be34/s…

Hey #ICAM2024: Rebekah Sibbald's presentation "Switching Tracks: Adapting Previously Developed Professional Identities in Medical Education" is switching tracks...originally scheduled for 1pm today, the presentation will now be at 10am Monday in Tennyson Room. Pass it on...

Meredith Vanstone (@MGVanstone) has been named the Canada Research Chair in Ethical Complexity in Primary Care for her research that aims to support patients and clinicians make difficult health care decisions. @machealthsci @McMasteResearch @TIPS_SPIIE fammed.mcmaster.ca/family-medicin…

Eight @McMasterU researchers from the Faculties of Science, Health Sciences and Engineering have been named Canada Research Chairs. Congratulations to our new and renewed CRCs! @TIPS_SPIIE brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/eight…

Hot off the press! The Canadian Patient Partner Study is pleased to share a new publication led by @romadham asking #patientpartners engaged in Canadian health system settings about their experiences with #compensation. Read the full text for free: doi.org/10.1111/hex.13…

Medicine really is an art and a science as this article illustrates. nationalgeographic.com/premium/articl… via @NatGeo @drkeithsiau @MGVanstone

Listen to the audio interview with @MonicaLMolinaro on family physicians' narratives of moral distress. 'You’re doing everything you possibly could do, and you know it’s not enough' bjgplife.com/142 @MGVanstone @GinaAgarwall @KatrinaGShen #MoralDistress #FamilyMedicine

Read family physicians' experiences of moral distress doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2… @MonicaLMolinaro @MGVanstone @GinaAgarwall @KatrinaGShen #MoralDistress #FamilyMedicine #PrimaryCare

This DFM-led study found that family physicians’ preferences for practice locations were tied with perceptions about their preferred practice scope. Read the full article: bit.ly/3sgQzn6 @LawrencGrierson @GinaAgarwall @asianaelma

How can you successfully incorporate key informants into qualitative research projects? This article written by DFM researchers provides practical suggestions on including key informants in research. Learn more: bit.ly/3MsZ6dl @MGVanstone

With PhD applications due soon, thousands of young people are currently beginning their statements of purpose with the same cliché story, or the same anodyne statement Stop right now! Here are 10 thoughts for doing this right. Helps you, and helps admissions committees.👇

“We have not prioritized preventing maternal trauma. It's been demoted in our hierarchy of maternal morbidity and these high rates of trauma have been normalized,"

Giulia Muraca and colleagues argue that Canada’s high rates of maternal and neonatal trauma following operative vaginal delivery warrant urgent recognition, transparency, and action @SingingOB @Dr_R_Geoffrion @sarkalis bmj.com/content/383/bm…