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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 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Cynthia Kong, December 2015
... However, there are also challenges faced in rural family practice that are no laughing matter. The admiration I hold ... to access the resources they needed. Divisions of Family Practice has identified the need to move critically ill ... think about my future as a physician, my love for rural practice is rivalled by these logistical, systemic issues ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sean McGee, BSc (Hons), July/August 2014
... attention to the economic aspects of medical training and practice. One Canadian study found that median expected debt ... encompass the complexities of medical education and practice nor do justice to the values of medicine that centre ... and by the many medical organizations in which physicians practice, such as hospitals, health authorities, medical ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Shelley Ross, MD October 2014
... on the right path from day one. Shirley chose family practice because it offered a variety of challenges and ... to the whole family. Looking after the children in her practice was the highlight of her day. She would have such fun with her patients and her practice that people often asked whether there was a party ...
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 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, January/February 2014
... team, our clinical skills tutors, and our family practice preceptors were all keen to teach us everything they ... their business cards so that we could arrange additional practice times before exams. The third-year medical students ... in small-group learning sessions, a lecture hall, family practice office, or clinical skills room. Despite the ...
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, ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, January/February 2014
... to the US. He was an associate in a downtown Seattle practice from 1964 until 1966, at which time he moved to the ... of Issaquah, Washington. On Dr Terwiel’s first day of practice in Issaquah he had 20 patients and the numbers grew ... to Maple Ridge where he opened his full-service family practice as an associate of Dr Arber, one of his most ...