For the first time, first-year medical students at the University of British Columbia will be using a touch-screen table that displays detailed images of internal anatomy that can be rotated,... Read More

Fee item 13005 (advice about a patient in community care) applies to residential, intermediate, and extended care patients and also includes patients receiving home nursing care, home support, or... Read More

The incidence of infectious syphilis (i.e., primary, secondary, early latent) has increased nearly fivefold from 2010 to 2015 in BC, and is projected to further increase in 2016 (Figure 1). Men who... Read More

In the September issue of the BCMJ we neglected to include the following two additional BC physician appointees to the Order of Canada. Dr Dorothy Shaw, Officer of the Order of Canada: Dr Shaw... Read More

In June 2016 the BC Cancer Agency released updated recommendations for cervical cancer screening.[1] The age to initiate cervical cancer screening has increased to 25 years, and the routine screening... Read More