OMA Spotlight on Health Podcast
1) Advocating for a centralized referral system
Many Ontario patients are waiting weeks or even months to see a specialist. In this third episode of a three-part series, physicians explain how a centralized referral system could help alleviate anxi...Show More
2) Improving access to primary care through team-based care
Primary care in Ontario is in crisis, and team-based care is a key solution to helping the 2.3 million people in the province without a family doctor. In this second episode of a three-part series, ph...Show More
3) The Ontario Medical Association advocates for better home and community care in Ontario
A rise in hallway health care and bloated emergency departments has become a norm in Ontario's health-care system. This first episode of a three-part series hears from physicians working in the h...Show More
4) Addressing the primary care crisis
In this episode, Dr. David Barber, chair of the OMA’s Section on General and Family Practice and assistant professor at Queen’s University’s department of family medicine, discusses the challenges fac...Show More
5) Removing barriers to Indigenous mental-health services
Statistics reveal that less than one per cent of Canadian doctors identify as Indigenous. In this podcast episode, physicians discuss the barriers to mental-health services Indigenous doctors face and...Show More
6) Health-care advocacy bridges gaps in a challenged system
Physicians weigh in on the influential role doctors can play outside of their practices as advocates for health care. Personal stories and perspectives shared illustrate the difference they’ve made in...Show More
7) Medical scribes to ease administrative burden
Studies show that the use of medical scribes to document details of patient visits and take on onerous paperwork has relieved physicians, freeing them up to focus on the work they do best: personalize...Show More
8) Ensuring health care reflects Ontario’s multicultural make-up
Physicians speak to the importance of multicultural representation in Ontario’s health-care system, and the need for culturally sensitive care that considers patients’ social determinants of health. S...Show More
9) Ontario’s doctors want immediate solutions to health care
The Ontario Medical Association is calling on the provincial government to put money in the upcoming budget to find and keep more doctors, address wait times and improve palliative care. The OMA has a...Show More
10) Fostering trust with Black patients
In this second part of two-part Spotlight on Health podcast series for Black History Month, Ontario doctors discuss how physicians can build relationships and cultivate trust with Black patients, whil...Show More