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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 ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2015
... catastrophic hemorrhage of general practitioners from the practice of obstetrics when there was a political decision ... targets a variety of GPs, including those who are new to practice and want a bit of a confidence boost and ongoing ... from the MC4BC program to apply ( http://gpscbc.ca/family-practice-incentive/maternity-care-bc ). —Shelley Ross, MD ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, MB BCh BAO March 2015
... article promoting a living and local method of family practice review and quality improvement [ BCMJ ... Re: Measuring and improving quality of care in family practice ...
Letters / BY: Denise McLeod, MD, April 2015
... of the patient’s medical home—a model of family practice promoted by the College of Family Physicians of ... is but one innovative approach to advance collaborative practice and access to family physicians for all—similar ... efforts in backing other patient’s medical home practice models will yield the best results for the health of ...
Letters / BY: Bret Batchelor, MD, September 2015
... of the other team members.” In other words, in a busy practice, a physician will likely be unable to bill for a ... sees that patient. How is this supposed to get residents practice-ready if, in order to bill for the review and care ...