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Specialist Services Committee / BY: Kelly Mayson, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... Instead, it adopted the position that a “community of practice” consisting of subject matter experts—front-line ... to attempt to overcome these perceived hurdles and guide practice in the face of doubt and confusion. The ... have been reviewed widely and adopted as informal clinical practice guidelines. The Collaborative’s Anesthesia ...
Letters / BY: Aidan Byrne, MD, FCFP, April 2016
... different medications in different species in veterinary practice combined with a simple classification of groups of ... system of medicating frail geriatric patients. In medical practice, however, I have found that treatment decisions tend ...
Letters / BY: Shirin Rostamkalaee, MD June 2016
... competition among IMGs, nor be successful in one of the practice-ready assessment programs. As a result, I’ve ... put in front of me. The enrollment requirements for practice-ready programs in Canada, such as the requirement to be in a current practice as a fully licensed physician, mostly benefit ...
Letters / BY: Sue McLoughlin, MD, May 2016
... Marcus would only be suitable for those headed into family practice. Students destined for internal medicine specialties ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP April 2016
... Perhaps Dr Byrne felt that an analogy to veterinary practice was too simplistic, but a veterinarian treating an ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD June 2016
... for IMGs to help them establish themselves and set up practice in BC. The College’s role in the recruitment ... two national colleges may be eligible to participate in a practice-ready assessment (PRA) program, which involves a ... for IMGs to help ensure they can safely enter the practice of medicine. This high level of scrutiny is yet ...
Letters / BY: Vandad Yousefi, MD, CCFP, FHM, May 2016
... the complex reasons behind the overwhelming changes in practice patterns of modern-day family physicians. For ... family physicians by ensuring proper remuneration and practice support. Some of the ideas raised by Dr Nicolson may ... levels of complexity. The decline of comprehensive family practice is not only due to a fee guide that promotes ...
Letters / BY: Michael M. O’Brien December 2016
... as a GP, which many did, most of whom would go into practice with a group or clinic and have hospital privileges ... that 52% of graduates are now choosing general/family practice, clearly not something to be proud of. The other ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD September 2016
... College is to establish, monitor, and enforce standards of practice to reduce incompetent, impaired, or unethical practice. The regulation of medical marijuana is an ... medical boards that have been regulating this aspect of practice for a while. Published and personal reports ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD May 2016
... pattern. I am unconvinced that high-volume low-intensity practice is a meaningful deployment of comprehensive medical ... emerging subspecialty of Internet-facilitated prescription practice (high-volume low-intensity on steroids) worries me ... excellent position paper,  A Vision for Canada: Family Practice: The Patient’s Medical Home , but would point out ...