Skip to main content

 -
  • About
    • Advertising Policy
    • Aim and Scope
    • Author Fees and Disclosure of Funding
    • Contact Us
    • Editorial Board
    • Editorial Independence
    • Editorial Policies
      • Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Technology
      • Authorship and Contributorship
      • Complaints and Appeals
      • Corrections and Retractions
      • Data Sharing and Reproducibility
      • Ethical Practices and Expectations
      • Intellectual Property and Copyright
      • Peer Review
    • Editorial Process
    • History
    • Media
    • Mission
    • Open Access
    • Permissions
    • Post-publication Discussions
    • Writing Prizes for Medical Students
  • The Journal
    • By Author
    • Past Issues
    • BC Doctors
      • Obituaries
      • Interviews
      • Proust for Physicians
      • Physician Spotlight
    • Opinions
      • Back Page
      • BC Stories
      • Blog
      • Editorials
      • Letters to the Editor
      • Premise
      • President's Comment
    • Columns
      • BC Centre for Disease Control
      • Billing Tips
      • Council on Health Promotion
      • College Library
      • Family Practice Services Committee
      • Joint Collaborative Committees
      • News
      • Shared Care Committee
      • Specialist Services Committee
      • WorkSafeBC
    • Articles
      • Clinical Articles
        • Clinical Case Reports
        • Clinical Images
        • Original Research
        • Review Articles
      • MDs To Be
      • Beyond Medicine
      • COVID-19
      • Early Online
  • Classifieds
  • Submit Content
    • Instructions for Authors: Clinical Article
    • Instructions for Authors: Nonclinical Content
    • Theme Issue
    • Letter to the Editor
  • Advertise
    • Place Display Ad
    • Place Classified Ad
    • Shopping cart
  • none
 -

Columns

  • BC Centre for Disease Control
  • Billing Tips
  • Council on Health Promotion
  • College Library
  • Family Practice Services Committee
  • Joint Collaborative Committees
  • News
  • Shared Care Committee
  • Specialist Services Committee
  • WorkSafeBC
Billing Tips / March 2016

Stepping up educational efforts under the new PMA

By: Keith J. White, MD

Over the past 2 years the Patterns of Practice Committee (POPC) stepped up its educational efforts by writing articles for the BCMJ to address important topics such as billing by locums,... Read More

Two penis and vagina, harm of unprotected sex
BC Centre for Disease Control / March 2016

Got checked where? Online STI testing now available in BC

By: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, Devon Haag, MSc,, Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC

While many patients have good access to testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) through their family physician or a sexual health clinic, this isn’t the case for everyone. Each year in BC... Read More

WorkSafeBC / January/February 2016

Medical management of displaced mid-shaft clavicle fractures

By: David Sheps, MD, MSc, MBA, FRCSC,

Between 2010 and 2014 WorkSafeBC accepted 231 clavicle fracture claims, which resulted in claims costs of $13.7 million. Close to $8 million worth of those claims represented short-term disability... Read More

News / January/February 2016

Staff member joins front line of refugee crisis

By: Laurie Cooper,

In November, Laurie Cooper, media communications officer for Divisions of Family Practice, spent 2 weeks volunteering with refugees on the island of Lesvos, Greece. We asked her to write a short... Read More

News / January/February 2016

Planning for life after residency: Start with Transition Tuesdays

Doctors of BC, the UBC PGME Transition into Practice Program, and MD Financial Management have introduced the Transition Tuesdays Seminar Series to help residents start planning their move to... Read More

  • Load more
BCMJ Volume 67 Number 10 cover.

BCMJ

The BCMJ is a general medical journal that shares knowledge while building connections among BC physicians.

DOBC

 

ISSN 0007‍-‍0556 (Print)
ISSN 2293‍-‍6106 (Online)
Established 1959