This year on World Health Day (7 April), consider “donating a day” for Africa, Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief’s (CPAR’s) 4th Annual World Health Day Challenge. By donating part or all of 1 day’s income, you’ll demonstrate your commitment to improving health in Africa.
The World Health Day Challenge is partly inspired by the efforts of Dr Kevin Wade, a Vancouver-based ophthalmologist who donated a day of his medical service payment plans to CPAR in September 2002 and again in September 2005.
The Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles (OSMV), in partnership with the BCMA, is revising the BC Guide for Physicians in Determining Fitness to Drive a Motor Vehicle to ensure that it reflects changes in the case law and the best evidence available regarding medical conditions and fitness to drive.
Draft chapters may be viewed at Drivesafe.com, on the public side of the BCMA web site, and at the SGP web site.
The BCMA annually presents three scholarships to students planning to pursue post-secondary education in the following school year. The scholarship is for children of BCMA members in good standing.
Monarch House Autism Centre (www.monarchhouse.ca) was created by CBI Health Group to be a centre of excellence offering a multidisciplinary, integrated team approach for programming and intervention for children with ASD and other developmental disabilities. Monarch House has occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, psychologists, and pediatricians all under one roof. The centre’s goal is to simplify the journey parents have to take from questions to interventions around ASD and other developmental disabilities.
Though medical students have non-English language skills that accurately reflect the diversity of languages spoken in British Columbia, they would not feel comfortable using those languages in a clinical encounter.
