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I agree that the CDS says all the right things - dropping Universality of Service would result, over time (given the size of our military, not too long a time) of creating a pyramid structure with an undeployable shadow-VAC population on the bottom, and a deployable pointy end that would end up...

No, the Med world will not "sign off' on charges of "malingering" - that is fully in keeping with clinical practice norms. Charging someone is an administrative CoC function, not Medical - the CO can charge, and if the proper legal processes are followed, clinicians can be called to testify...

This. RegF, CAF only recruits 6 specialties: Rads, Psych, IM, GenSurg, Ortho and Gas. PRL can of course be anything, but if they deploy, they'd go in a "most closely matching" billet - the RCPSC ER doc would probably go as a GDMO, matching GDMO with CCFP(EM). As for the statement downthread...

If you're RegF and have a low-risk AR/MEL (looks like yours is O3) and are retained without restrictions, there may be a possibility of getting a waiver for the 3 in order to VOT. Not a guarantee, but it's possible depending on the situation. Your CoC would been to be engaged.

No, it was the "I wannas" that were medicalized (same as with the majority of beards). Given the huge drop-off in med chits for boots once it went from MO to Physio, that's quite clear - MOs just scribbled a chit. Foot-for-boot assessment isn't something they ever get taught, and frankly, as a...

No. A better use of resources would be to quit medicalizing non-medical issues. Like boot chits. And workplace conflict. And beard chits (ok, pseudofolliculitis barbae does exist. But it mostly affects black men, and there's no legitimate medical reason half of Valcartier's running around with...

To add to the "sizing is not a med issue" - in any case you won't be wasting the doc's time, you'll be wasting (or not) the Physio's. They took the boot-chit complaints away from MOs because frankly MOs know nothing about boots (why in the world would they, boot-fitting is not something taught...

It's not using it as a "way out". If the guy needs help, he needs help. He's not guaranteed "meaningful" (to him) employment though. If he's being harassed that's one thing, but if it's just a sucky job that holds no purpose as far as he can see, well...we all go through periods/jobs like that...

Hard to tell what you mean by pay for - since you were injured on duty, the CAF will pay for things that the civi system won't cover, if you need them (for ex, if you need physiotherapy). Imaging studies like MRI are covered under the civi system (your provincial health care). If your doc...

A simple DM2 (if that's what the mbr ends up having) won't necessarily give him a med release, at least not immediately. His problem is that he'll likely be put on a TCAT to allow time to determine the severity of his med condition, and its prognosis. The usual "something's wrong, we need time...

Well, ID is a sub-specialty of IM; CAF has sent its IM specialists on ID training in the past, a sort of fellowship. I think it still has one ID-trained IM, or would consider sending an IM for that trg if it doesn't, but these days it's looking for intensivists more than anything else.

Right, because prior to the Dechamps report women were flocking to recruiting centres in droves  ::) And males are actually being targeted for recruitment as nurses. There are targeted ad campaigns by nursing schools to reach out to minorities in their field (which definitely includes males, in...

Sane people ostensibly also wouldn't pack women and children into gas chambers, but to my knowledge no one's been weeping about mass insanity among the Nazis. Thus I'm perfectly fine calling these people terrorists, war criminals, and whatever is applicable to whichever group we're talking...

They functioned pretty much as one entity when under the DCIEM name. Now much less so, separate co-located entities rather than a military and civi component of one entity, and DRDC itself is moving towards a sort of unification of its research centres under the DRDC umbrella and...

Well...yeah. That's pretty much the gist of the article. So they will now try to aggressively market the military to women. The "quota" is more like aspirational goal - they first have to get enough interested potential recruits to even show up for selection, which is where the marketing comes...

Nobody's heard of CFEME, that's the tragedy of changing an identifiable name like DCIEM. All the internationals know what DCIEM was. DRDC is the *civilian* DND research org, staffed by public servants. It has several centres across Canada, and its GenO-equivalent is the ADM(S&T). CFEME...

:facepalm:  :o And I'm guessing nothing was done about it, beyond a head-shake and a "oh well, guess we've got an Onc." Ah ULO's and their lack of pers-tracking. Did they even find out during residency, or only once she was done?

It's CFEME, not DCIEM. The officers you're talking about are BioSciO's, who for entry need a bachelor’s preferably in human sciences (human bio, human factors engineering, ergonomics, occ hygiene, human phys), and must meet requirements for acceptance into a grad program in Human Factors...

No employer has the right to know diagnosis; the CAF is not special in that respect. "Your" soldier owns his medical information and can disclose it at will, if he feels like it - many have, many have not. But the med system will only tell you MELs and time periods, and prognosis if appropriate...

They would not fund this. The CAF mostly needs GDMOs (family medicine docs, who work in clinics on the bases, medically support various taskings/exercises, and obviously deploy). It has need of a relatively small number of select specialties; from the list you can see that, apart from Psych...