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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: John Hamilton, MD, July/August 2015
... being led by three joint clinical committees—the General Practice Services Committee, the Specialist Services ... operates at various levels, from physician-led changes in practice such as those implemented by community-based divisions of family practice involved in A GP for Me, to provincial-level ...
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 ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ron Collins, MD, FRCPC, December 2015
... Enhanced Recovery Collaborative is using a community-of-practice approach to address these ... to discover that participation in a community of practice has been accepted by many providers as more akin to ...
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: 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, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Morgan Price, MD, PhD, CCFP, December 2013
... initiative will provide $40 million to Divisions of Family Practice over the next 3 years to conduct research evaluating ... care capacity. The Cowichan Valley Division of Family Practice was one of three divisions to prototype the ... (part of the UBC Faculty of Medicine Department of Family Practice), and the University of Victoria’s eHealth ...