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MDs To Be / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, November 2011
... to type quickly! You are a great champion for family practice. How did you choose this for your career?  At the ... and truly wooed me. That was it. I joined the UBC Family Practice Program where I had the opportunity to meet some ... medicine changed over the years? When I started in family practice, it was just presumed that you would do ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, July/August 2011
... Shared Care Committee (a joint project between the General Practice Services Committee and the Specialist Services ... conditions (or both). Group medical visits are one of the practice innovations popularized by the GPSC’s Practice Support Program (PSP), which offers focused training ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, July/August 2010
Improving practice efficiency for specialists Following the success of the Practice Support Program (PSP) for general practitioners, a number of practice efficiency improvement learning mod­ules are now ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, March 2010
The General Practice Services Committee’s Practice Support Program (PSP) held a pilot learning session ... before the summer.  —Liza Kallstrom Executive Lead, Practice Support Program Professional Relations, BCMA Family ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, November 2010
The Divisions of Family Practice initiative is clearly meeting the needs of family ... the issues being addressed through the Divisions of Family Practice—such as expanding capacity for primary care and ... called “A GP for Me,” which is funded by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC). The provincial goal for ...
MDs To Be / BY: Jenny Ko, March 2010
... On the one hand, competence is decision-specific in practice; a person may possess the mental capacity to make ... of euthanasia not only increases the likelihood that the practice of euthanasia will be abused for economic gain, but ... be the reason for requesting euthanasia.[ 10 ]  Moreover, practice of euthanasia assigns social worth and accordingly ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Diana June King, March 2010
... a mutual friend, Don met Dr Adam Waldie, who had a family practice on 10th Avenue at Discovery and who was looking for ... five of the happiest years of his life—in general practice. Don always spoke fondly of those ... thing to do.”  It was during those years in family practice that Don met Michael Smith, who played a pivotal ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, May 2010
... it’s gotten even better.” Group visits are one of the practice innovations popularized by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC), a partnership between the ... and primary health care for patients. Blouw attended the practice support program sessions from GPSC on practice ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, May 2010
... Importantly, this allows us to totally integrate our practice on a continuum from the community to the acute care ... principles of providing community service around a medical practice model. I hope it will continue to provide a strong ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Robert Young, MD, June 2010
... practitioner representatives from Divisions of Family Practice across BC met with representatives from the BCMA, ... Collaboration at Work, which focused on two new General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) initiatives: attachment ... Mr Brian Evoy, executive lead, Divisions of Family Practice; and Dr Nigel Murray, CEO of Fraser Health ...