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Dr. Carmel
Casey named CFPC provincial family doctor of year
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Dr. Carmel Casey is named
CFPC provincial family doctor of year;
Dr. Mohamed Ravalia is this year’s recipient of the Donald I. Rice
Award; Dr. Amin A. Muhammad publishes online
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By NLMA Staff |
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Dr. Carmel Casey is the provincial winner of the
Family Doctor of
the Year award, presented this fall at the College of Family
Physicians of Canada’s annual Family Medicine Forum.
“I love family medicine since it allows me to attend births, to
alleviate suffering at the time of death, and to help any way I can in
between,” said Dr. Casey.
Dr. Casey, a member of the NLMA’s Health Promotion and Wellness
Committee, has a busy family medicine practice at the Gander Medical
Clinic in her home town. The Memorial University graduate is an active
community volunteer and has taken a lead role in the development of the
Active Schools initiative in central Newfoundland. She is also a
volunteer with the Active Living Committee in Central Newfoundland, the
VON Broadening Horizons Program, and Special Olympics.
The 10 recipients of these annual provincial physician awards are
selected by their peers for providing exceptional care to patients and
making a significant contribution to the health and well-being of their
communities.
Dr. Mohamed Ravalia
Dr. Mohamed Ravalia, a family physician in Twillingate, is this year’s
recipient of the Donald I. Rice Award. The award, named in memory of the
late Dr. Donald I. Rice who was executive director of the College of
Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) from 1965 to 1985, recognizes an
outstanding CFPC family physician member for his or her contributions to
teaching, vision, and leadership in our discipline. A recipient of this
award is identified every even-numbered year and is supported over a
two-year period by the CFPC’s Research and Education Foundation to
present his/her perspectives at chapter meetings of family physicians
across Canada. Dr. Ravalia has been involved with the training of
students and residents from Memorial University’s Medical School for
many years in his role as associate professor of family medicine.
In addition to his interest and involvement in training tomorrow’s
physicians, Dr. Ravalia is interested in the challenges facing
international medical graduates when coming to practice in Canada, and
in issues around primary care reform.
Dr. Amin A. Muhammad
A paper by Dr. Amin A. Muhammad, professor of psychiatry at Memorial
University, was recently published in the Scientific Journals
International Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences. "Mental
Health Model: Comparison between a developed and a developing country"
is available
online in the inaugural issue of the journal.
The paper compares how two cities —
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Karachi, Pakistan
— are addressing an increase
in mental illness. In order to assess the situation, a comparison is made
between the developed and developing city in terms of the population,
number of psychiatric beds, morbidity patterns, number of psychiatrists,
GDP, average annual income, health care expenditures, waiting times for
consultation, and nature of services.
Data was gathered systematically from literature search using PubMed,
Google, Medline and publications from the WHO, UNICEF, Canadian
Medical Association, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, Government of
Newfoundland and Labrador and local monographs for both cities in the
developing and developed countries.
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