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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD October 2015
... in residential care facilities. Five divisions of family practice began prototyping the initiative in 2011: ... who practise in communities in which no division of family practice has been formed are invited to self-organize and ... take place. In the past 4 months, 28 divisions of family practice have applied for funding for the planning phase of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2015
... to patients, physicians need to participate in CME and practice-improvement learning opportunities that are both ... measured using set criteria. In recent years the medical practice landscape has shifted significantly: patients are ... requests for innovative learning opportunities, the Practice Support Program (PSP) has introduced a new model of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi December 2015
A new tool developed by Divisions of Family Practice will help GPs around the province better manage their medical practices. The Practice Toolkit, a fully customizable resource built to suit ... and employee conduct. The Divisions produced the Practice Toolkit based on a model originally created by the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD April 2015
Local divisions of family practice have identified team-based care as an integral part ... rates in BC. As of 1 March 2015, 22 divisions of family practice have completed an evaluation of their community ... recruitment, retention, and retirement strategies; practice support and coaching; and health promotion and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD May 2015
... service agreements in 2011 with local divisions of family practice and their respective health authority partners in ... with other stakeholders helped establish five best practice expectations for the provincial initiative: 1.    ... 5.    Attendance at case conferences These best practice expectations are anticipated to reduce unnecessary ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2014
... than ever to stay current with rapid advancements in best practice recommendations. This is especially true in the busy general practice environment where physicians need to make efficient, ... of BC physicians were using online journals, clinical practice guidelines, and medical databases in patient care,[ ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD November 2014
... out of their practices, BC is in growing need of family practice providers of primary maternity care. Billing fee ... family physicians who include obstetrics in their scope of practice. On 1 October, the GPSC reinstated its obstetrical ... for established family physicians and those newly in practice through hands-on experience, mentorship, and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD December 2014
In British Columbia, 91% of eligible full-service family practice and specialist physicians (more than 5000 in total) ... are using an electronic medical record (EMR) in their practice. With one of the highest rates of EMR adoption in ... use level 3 (MU3), is foundational to an optimized medical practice. With the application of consistent, robust data, ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Gary Mazowita, MD, January/February 2014
... Committee. The award-winning service enriches family practice by providing a collegial and CME-eligible ... practise in real time (see www.cfpc.ca/Linking_Learning_to_Practice for details). For specialists, RACE reduces wait ... billing codes Family physicians  •    G14018 General Practice Urgent Telephone Conference with a Specialist: $40  ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Clay Barber, July/August 2014
... the team conducted chart reviews, researched best practice, developed patient pathway maps, and tested ... reflects the Canadian Thoracic Society’s clinical practice guidelines for COPD and spans multiple care ...