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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Dan McCarthy, MD January/February 2008
... the Complex Care Fee introduced last spring, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) has revised the fee. ... introduced by the GPSC as part of its Full Service Family Practice Incentive Program. Altogether these incentives are ... one piece of the GPSC’s overall strategy for supporting practice change by GPs and achieving comprehensive renewal of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, September 2008
A Practice Support Program (PSP) learning module de­signed to ... in the full module himself. “I’ve been in practice since 1995 and year after year I’ve seen a ... debating and learning from each other—I saw family practice being reinvigorated.”  A bonus effect of patient ...
Obituaries / BY: J. Patrick McConkey, MD, May 2008
... returned to Vancouver with a new bride in 1952 and began practice with Dr A.S. McConkey (Mac)—a partnership that ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, December 2008
... already adopted EMRs. Dr Leo K.H. Wong of St. Luke Family Practice in Langley recognized that the trend in medicine was already favoring EMRs when he started his family practice more than 4 years ago. To avoid the switch from ... paper to electronic records, Dr Wong decided to open his practice using EMRs. His first step was to involve his staff ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD March 2008
... mental health initiative launched by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) 1 January 2008. “The ... or by other medical professionals directly under the GP or practice group’s supervision (e.g., MOA or office nurse), ... initiative fees are payable to the general practitioner or practice group that accepts the role of being “most ...
Obituaries / BY: Cliff Henderson, MD, October 2008
... Panton in Kelowna in September 1950 and remained in active practice until 1987.  Paul loved playing tennis, which he ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
... developed by the joint BCMA/Ministry of Health General Practice Services Committee (GPSC), also supports additional training for graduating family practice residents interested in incorporating obstetrics into their practice from the start.  In Victoria, Dr Marina Thibodeau ...
Obituaries / BY: Guy Winch, MBChB December 2008
... Geoff came to Canada in 1964, and following 4 years of practice in Hamilton, Ontario, moved to North Vancouver where he established a consulting practice in association with Dr Norman Gelpke. Together, with ... Gate Hospital. In 1987 he retired from active surgical practice and accepted a position as a consultant in ...
Obituaries / BY: Archie Young, MDCM, March 2008
... of internship in Toronto, he went west to enter general practice in Youbou, Vancouver Island, where he stayed for 2 ... he completed in 1954, then entered his general surgical practice in Chilliwack, where he remained until his ...
Obituaries / BY: Eileen Cambon, MD, November 2008
... of Canada in ophthalmology and joined her husband in practice in May 1961. She retired in February 2003.  ...