News /
BY: Jessie Wang
March 2019
... out there for medical students. I knew that my Doctors of BC membership is free during my 4 years of medical school, ... I knew that I received free life insurance with Doctors of BC through my 4 years of medical school as well, but as of the 2018–19 school year Doctors of BC disability insurance is also free through all 4 years. ...
News
March 2019
... of Family Practice and an affiliate investigator at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. The review ...
News /
BY: Arun K. Garg, PhD, MD
March 2019
... multicultural communities, patients, and caregivers across BC to optimize chronic disease prevention and ... Public Health Approaches to Palliative Care in India and BC, looking at the work done by the Two Worlds Cancer ...
News
March 2019
... to a death review panel report[ 1 ] released by the BC Coroners Service in 2018. Of those, 10% (333 people) died ... Five new community transition teams stationed throughout BC aim to address this problem by helping people with ... for Correctional Health Services and addictions lead for BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, reports that ...
President's Comment /
BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP
March 2019
... succeed. —Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP Doctors of BC President President's Comment Let’s be real, we need ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: John Fan
March 2019
... of a recent survey completed by 18 endocrinologists in BC indicate a good understanding of biotin interference ( ... from a recent survey completed by endocrinologists in BC indicate a good level of understanding where biotin ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Monica Dahiya, BSc
March 2019
... In a recent study of more than 1.1 million individuals in BC tested for hepatitis C, a prevalence rate of 5.8% was ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD
March 2019
... administrative data have been integrated to create the BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort (BC-HTC), which contains health information on over 2 million BC residents. BC-HTC has helped identify gaps along the ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Helena Swinkels, MD, MHSc, FCFP, FRCPC
March 2019
... (FNHA), which serves First Nations communities in BC, we read with great interest Dr Charuka Maheswaran’s ... and the Environmental Health Committee of the Doctors of BC’s Council on Health Promotion for their interest in this ... on this in partnership with First Nations communities in BC and the Department of Indigenous Services Canada (ISC). ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Steven Larigakis, MD
March 2019
... Actions and Resources Empowering Seniors (CARES) model in BC, a collaborative primary care model using an electronic ... to live with chronic diseases that contribute to frailty. BC programs such as Be Active Every Day[ 11 ] are one way for ...