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Health care has begun to harness the power of immersive virtual reality (VR). This decade-old technology permits one to experience and engage in a situated and realistic form of macro-learning, which differs from partial task training, where one uses traditional simulators to practice a task, such as drilling through bone or learning arthroscopic triangulation.

It was 2:30 p.m. on a Tuesday during our family medicine placement at a local clinic. Having completed a few weeks of the placement, we were deep into the daily routine: history, physical, present the patient case to the preceptor, repeat.

Family doctors are invited to join a six-part webinar series about billing GPSC fees to build confidence when billing GPSC incentives, better understand correct billing and fee rules, and to ensure comprehensive billing for all services.

A recent interview in the Canadian Medical Association Journal cautioned that reopening schools should be delayed until more robust data are available, and that school attendance should, therefore, remain voluntary.[1] This would provide an option for high-risk students and staff who may suffer from severe complications if they were to contract COVID-19.[2]

I was born in 1929 in the city of Szeged, then the second largest city in Hungary. By the time I was 8 years old I had survived measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, and a mild case of scarlet fever. In those days getting through infectious diseases one by one was almost expected as part of growing up. In the late 1930s, Europe, including Hungary, was in the midst of a severe polio epidemic. For a whole summer I was not let out of the house to have fun on the local playgrounds. In 1955 during my internship at St.