Why community?

It takes a community to drive sustainable change — to improve the health care system, address issues impacting Canadians' health and strengthen the medical profession. The CMA’s community engagement platform is a space to get involved and collaborate with physicians, patients and other medical professionals who share your desire to make a difference. Just log in at community.cma.ca, using your cma.ca username and password and complete your profile. Then you’re ready to explore and engage with communities of interest, your peers and the CMA.

The community engagement platform includes blogs, discussion forums, consultations and downloadable resources such as articles, videos and more.

What can you do?

• Join a physician-led community: Lend your voice to a community that’s focused on an issue that's important to you, led by physicians and stakeholders. (All platform users)
• Connect with peers in the CMA Member Community: Share feedback, join discussions, explore ideas, stay informed, and take action on health advocacy priorities. (CMA members only)
• Contribute to the development of health policy: Have your say on CMA draft policies, consultations, and more. (All platform users)
  

Who can join?

Our community engagement platform is accessible to all CMA members as well as non-members. Physicians, medical learners, allied health providers, policy-makers, stakeholders, patients and the public are all welcome.

How to join?

All users of the platform must log in using a cma.ca account to participate in discussions and access communities. If you aren’t currently registered to cma.ca, you can do so as a physician/medical learner or as a non-physician.

Our rules of engagement

Communities are key to realizing a vibrant profession and healthy population — and to truly flourish, those communities need safe spaces where people can exchange stories and experiences. The community engagement platform is that space, where you can talk about the issues that matter to you. To keep exchanges productive and to ensure everyone can openly share their stories and experiences, we strongly encourage:

• Honest and open dialogue
• A supportive and collaborative spirit
• Focused, on-topic discussions
• Respectful discourse

Read the Community Engagement Playbook to learn more about using this platform and how you can contribute.