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Multicultural students meditating with books on heads in library
College Library / November 2010

Best evidence: The tip of the information iceberg

By: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS, Judy Neill

Incorporating high-quality evidence into clinical decision making re­quires systematic searching, appraising, and synthesizing of the literature. Performing these complex and time-consuming tasks... Read More

Assortment of antibiotics, over prescription of antibiotics
BC Centre for Disease Control / November 2010

Your irresistible personal portrait: A way to reduce antibiotic resistance?

By: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, Bill Mackie, MD, Rachel McKay, MSc,, Malcolm Maclure, ScD,

Confidentially, could you resist looking at your pattern of an­ti­biotic prescribing and comparing it with evidence? Without anyone else knowing?  If you are a GP in active practice, you will... Read More

WorkSafeBC / October 2010

Research team explores new bone and tendon-related treatments

By: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD,, Craig Martin, MD,

Platelet-rich plasma offers mixed success in treating tendinopathies The concept of using growth factors contained in activated platelets to help wound healing dates back to the early 1980s. More... Read More

News / October 2010

Stephen Lewis AIDS Foundation AfriGrand Caravan

This fall, the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign will bring together more than 240 grandmothers’ groups, students, activists, and community members to partake in the... Read More

News / October 2010

Parental Leave Program Reminder

Are you a physician practising medicine in British Columbia? Are you or your spouse having a baby or planning a pregnancy in the period from 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011? If you are, then it is... Read More

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BCMJ Volume 67 Number 10 cover.

BCMJ

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

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