Canadian Emerg Doc, Associate Dean Distributed Learning and Rural Initiatives, University of Calgary, Views are my own.
Joined October 2008
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
4 Dec 2025
Complex conditions like diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer & kidney disease, require many discplines to support care.
You need dieticians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, pharmacists etc to address the intersecting & multiple dimensions of those complex diagnoses. 2/9
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
4 Dec 2025
Hey Alberta.
Lots of talk about CSF, dual practice models & Sam Mraiche, but in the background, serious đź’© is going down.
Transdisciplinary care is being dismantled with each "lift & shift". What does this mean & why should you care? Quick 🧵. 1/9
#abpoli #healthcare
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
29 Sep 2025
Researchers in this study analyzed data on adults seen by family physicians in Alberta, Canada (2004–2020) to track changes in patient complexity, physician demographics, and #PrimaryCare practices.
📚annfammed.org/content/23/5/4…
Finding that patients were older and faced more chronic conditions, while physicians worked fewer days, saw fewer patients per day, and were increasingly women and internationally trained.
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
23 Sep 2025
A study examining the past 16 years reveals that Alberta’s physician shortage isn’t just about numbers; it's about people being older and sicker.
"The solution isn't just more doctors....we need...primary care teams... in one place, under one roof"
ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgary-st…
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30 Aug 2025
Check out this great video on why the Canadian Women's Rugby team is the most innovative (womens or mens) rugby team in the world right now.
If you are not watching the Women's World Cup, you are missing out!
youtu.be/Foq1rCWiYuA?si=2zQs…
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
28 Aug 2025
A day in the life of a rural generalist in #Alberta?
Everything. All at once.
ER. OR. Internal medicine. Palliative. Long-term care.
We’re the Swiss Army knives of healthcare.
And without us, rural hospitals couldn’t function.
It’s time rural generalists had a seat at the table.
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
26 Aug 2025
Ever wonder what’s behind Alberta’s most successful rural doctor training program?
For 9 years, I’ve led UCLIC - helping medical students grow into confident, community-minded physicians.
The future of rural medicine isn’t built in classrooms.
It’s built in communities.
#Alberta
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
29 Jul 2025
AI isn’t coming for doctors. It’s coming for bottlenecks.
We already use algorithms, apps & protocols.
The difference? AI is faster.
Let’s not fear it - let’s lead it.
Used well, it could help millions.
I’m a rural generalist & advocate for honest, human medicine.
#AIinMedicine
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
24 Jul 2025
Rural doctors aren’t “just GPs.”
They’re running the ER, doing ward rounds, delivering babies, managing cancer care, & responding to crises - sometimes all in the same day.
They’re rural generalists: the Swiss Army knives of medicine.
It’s time they were seen & supported as such.
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11 Jul 2025
Check out our new paper where we unpack the complexity of the learning environment in Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs): frontiersin.org/journals/med…
The student preceptor relationship is key, but integration into community and personal and social context play a big part.
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
28 Dec 2024
Reflections from this past week of holiday night shifts:
1. Influenza A and RSV are everywhere. Wash your hands and mask up.
2. This has been an exceptionally violent holiday season for YYC. It has been a heavy week for our communities and medical teams. Hug your loved ones.
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Aaron Johnston retweeted
Thrilled to be a part of this study, led by @aaronjohnston, titled "Regional Medical Campuses in Canada:Â Exploring the Landscape of Current and Proposed Campuses". Honored to collaborate with Amanda Bell, Kristy Penner & Grace Perez.
@uLethbridge @UCalgary pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/j…
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19 Dec 2024
pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/j…
Regional Medical Campuses have been a key avenue of growth for medical training. Our article looks at the range of implementations across Canada, advancing understanding about implementations and helping to identify future opportunities.
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frontiersin.org/journals/med…
Stories about rural life and rural practice are a key way of helping premedical and medical students explore rural practice.
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22 Oct 2024
Check out our @CJEMonline letter raising concern about decreased applications to CCFP-EM (Emergency Medicine) residency programs.
rdcu.be/dXFe1
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22 Oct 2024
The difficult conditions in Canadian ED's (overcrowding, long wait times, lack of privacy) is influencing learners who maynot wish to work in these conditions.
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22 Oct 2024
Canadian ED's are in trouble today (just ask anyone who has recently been a patient), but decreasing learner interest means that workforce challenges may INCREASE in the future.
Let's choose to notice this important change.
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9 Oct 2024
At RhPAP’s community conference in Wainright AB. Dedicated community members from across AB together asking and sharing what they can do to support rural medicine.
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1 Oct 2024
High River is one of the busiest rural medical teaching sites in Southern AB. It has historically been among the most stable sites, previously so stable there were discussions about having its own residency program.
30 Sep 2024
And so it continues. Now it is High River. Having lost one quarter of its MD's - it can no longer keep its hospital open full time.
What is government doing? Well, nothing really.
At least the NDP has a sensible plan.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/crisis-si…
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1 Oct 2024
Rural healthcare access and rural medical education are 2 sides of the same coin. The doctors who provide service are the same doctors that teach.
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1 Oct 2024
Health workforce instability is hard on current patients, who can’t access a doctor. It’s also hard on future patients because it limits capacity to train the next generation of rural doctors.
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