@RolandGrad

Family doc and author of 'Look it up! What patients, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists need to know about the internet and health'.

 Montréal, Québec
mcgill.ca/familymed/roland-grad
Joined February 2015
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You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.
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Recommend this webinar explaining and backgrounding the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care draft breast screening guidelines. youtube.com/watch?v=EhcrfETM…
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Canadian mammography kerfuffle echoes U.S. screening debate, 15 years later commonsensemd.blogspot.com/2… via @kennylinafp @susan_bewley @MichaelBaum11 @SteveLaitner @paulpharoah @naserturabi @rwittmer3 @RolandGrad @LessIsMoreMed @ebmgatineau
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An excellent review about naive overoptimistic views and expectations regarding screening. An eyeopener about the key issues that everyone engaged in discussion about screening should be familiar with. Warmly recommended! cfp.ca/content/69/11/767

Debunking myths about screening

Screening is mostly considered a noble and worthwhile effort. Most patients believe screening has no drawbacks and can bring only positive health outcomes.[1][1] As physicians, we know otherwise....

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Patients and doctors need to understand this: Why screening guideline committees should not include ‘experts’ as voting members healthydebate.ca/2024/02/top… via @HealthyDebate @densebreastscdn

Why screening guideline committees should not include ‘experts’ as voting members - Healthy Debate

Is there a better way to address the Canadian Task Force recommendations? No, experts must remain excluded as voting members.

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L’Université McGill demande au premier ministre François Legault de revenir sur sa décision, invoquant les effets dévastateurs des mesures annoncées sur le Québec et sur l’Université mcgill.ca/newsroom/fr/channe…
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New clinical webinar with the Canadian Task Force on preventative Health Care! Join Dr. Roland Grad this Sept 19 from 12-1pm in this informative session on screening to prevent fragility fractures. Register now: ow.ly/TleA50PK6kg
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Honoring the Life and Legacy of Our Dear Colleague, Pierre Pluye. Tribute from Charo Rodriguez, Director of FMER. fmer-remf.ca/ @VeraGranikov @Bujold_Mathieu @reemshrf
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It is time to create a clinician scholar program-research profile pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3745… Thanks to Dre Marie Dominique Beaulieu leadership & colleagues @RolandGrad Dre Mathieu Touchette @CFPC_e @FRQS1 @IRSC_CIHR @FMOQ @facmedUL

It is time to create a clinician scholar program-research profile - PubMed

It is time to create a clinician scholar program-research profile

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CMAJ@CMAJ8 May 2023
In this special episode of #CMAJPodcasts, CMAJ EiC @KirstyPatrick speaks to @RolandGrad, one of the authors of the recently published fragility fracture prevention guideline for family doctors: cmaj.ca/transcript-221219
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New in @CFPJournal - See the top POEMs (Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters) of 2022 for #choosingwisely in clinical practice by:@RolandGrad & Renée de Gannes-Marshall, @CMA_Docs cfp.ca/content/69/3/169
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Conversations are critical when it comes to breast cancer screening thestar.com/opinion/contribu… via @torontostar

Conversations are critical when it comes to breast cancer screening

This year, we expect to see over 28,000 people develop breast cancer in Canada, and 5,500 will die. But the outlook has improved for those diagnosed.

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Screening for prostate cancer: protocol for updating multiple systematic reviews to inform a Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care guideline update systematicreviewsjournal.bio…

Screening for prostate cancer: protocol for updating multiple systematic reviews to inform a...

Systematic Reviews - To inform updated recommendations by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care on screening for prostate cancer in adults aged 18 years and older in primary care. This...

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Haven't had much time this year to catch the latest updates in family medicine? Review some of the highlights from the top 20 research studies for primary care physicians in 2021 in this #EBM article by @markebell & @RolandGrad: ow.ly/4WC750JG5PX
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Dr S Klarenbach of @cantaskforce at @PreventingODx summarized what women may consider when they are choosing whether to have a #mammogram or not for #breastcancer Tribalism is high on the list. #surdiagnostic #overdiagnosis #cancer #screening
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Please RT- We're seeking a Research Coordinator for the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care! The candidate should hv experience in the practice of KT. Bilingual Fr. & Eng. required. For + info & to apply, visit the link! Closes on May 4. recruitingsite.com/csbsites/…
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Clinicians need more from published research reports .jabfm.org/content/34/3/648
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@juanbuis10 Jun 2021
the french vaccination ad campaign is just *so good*
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