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President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD May 2009
... arts, and boot camp are relatively new as more and more people participate. We’re also wiser, for the most part, to ... and bike riding clubs in every community. However, many people still refuse to see the benefits of physical activity. ... active lifestyle. As well, surveys have shown that people who are physically active enjoy retirement more, ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2009
... place of many informal exchanges among colleagues. When people stop talking to each other barriers can go up, ... group that will look at the care gaps for these young people and the professionals who work with them. The school ... the pulse of a diverse social and ethnic group of young people must be closely involved. In the school we are working ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP September 2008
... from a qualified applicant pool of more than 700.  Young people in BC had fewer opportunities to become physicians than young people in other parts of Canada. And in spite of an increase ... BC. • Increase access to medical education for BC young people, including rural and Aboriginal youth who are ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2008
... are always looking for ways to improve. Health promotion People in BC want to take responsibility for their own health ... • We eat better. • We exercise more than most people in the world.   • We have a world-class cancer ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Vikram R. Comondore, MD, December 2008
... should be differentiated from the pressured alertness of people who sleep little. Quantitative sleep loss can be due ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barry Thorneloe (VFMP), MD September 2008
... way too much time in the same room with a small group of people, and everybody knows your name.  We had been medical ... we managed to pull off the experiment conceived by 5000 people—a medical program in Prince George was now ... imposed on us by rules that work well for keeping 200 people in line, but are perhaps a little rigid for governing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Betty Tang, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... may present as challenging behaviors.  Because many people with developmental disability have limited verbal ... in­creased prevalence of mental illness and dementia in people with developmental disability compared with those in ... In BC, specialized community mental health services for people with developmental disability are provided by each of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lori d’Agincourt-Canning, MSc, MA, PhD, December 2008
... it provided access to genetic consultations for some people whose economic or personal situation would have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) September 2008
... and specialists translate into significant problems for people living in those communities.[ 1 ]  The Northern ... first integrated clerkships in towns of fewer than 10000 people started in the fall of 2007. Expanding the medical ... underserved areas.  Until then, there are thousands of people across the province—from small community groups ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... there are 111 family practice physicians per 100000 people in British Columbia,[ 5 ] less than 1% of family ...