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College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS January/February 2019
... in scholarly journals; thus, they escape the notice of medical databases such as Medline. Additionally, the US ... ), in the search results, limit the Article Types to “Guideline.”  National Institute for ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... British Columbia, provides longitudinal care under the Medical Services Plan. To help better understand cannabis use ... of cannabis have radically different chemical composition, medical properties, and neurobiological effects. They are ... if we knew what to do.  Acknowledgments Sections of this article were published in Addiction Medicine and Therapy ( ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maxwell Moor-Smith, BSc January/February 2019
... Dr Daniel Ovakim for his assistance in developing this article. Dr Ovakim is affiliated with Critical Care Medicine at Island Health, and Medical Toxicology at the BC Drug and Poison Information ...
News / BY: Jessie Wang March 2019
... , so I took an inventory of what’s free out there for medical students. I knew that my Doctors of BC membership is free during my 4 years of medical school, but I had forgotten that this includes a free ... to win money. I could win a $1000 prize for submitting an article to the BCMJ , a $250 prize for writing a BCMJ blog ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD March 2019
... and Laboratory Medicine, UBC —Mel Krajden, MD, FRCPC Medical Director, BCCDC Professor, Department of Pathology ... All inferences, opinions, and conclusions drawn in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the ...
Letters / BY: Ian L. Mitchell, MD, FRCP April 2019
This article [ BCMJ 2019;61:14-19 ] would be the first in the ... and an exercise in futility.”[ 2 ] In Dr Ocana’s article, results are presented from a cohort interviewed ... this is magnified when it is published in a medical journal. The three most commonly held misbeliefs ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2019
In the Jan/Feb BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) article [ BCMJ 2019;61:41 ], authors refer to an ayruvedic ... to contain toxic lead levels.[ 1 , 2 ] The BCCDC article serves as a reminder of the importance of inquiring ... identification may have saved many emergency room visits, medical visits, and extensive investigations in this ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC May 2019
Medical evidence has a credibility problem that is rooted in ... most published research findings are false.”[ 1 ] In the article he likened medical research to a large RCT machine with three dials that ...
Obituaries / BY: Jill Ennals, RN June 2019
... graduating in 1962. The inaugural issue of the UBC Medical Journal was printed in that year, highlighted by a comprehensive eight-page article written by this fourth-year student, titled “Trends in BC medical care.” How prophetic was his vision! This was an ...
News June 2019
... Cadenhead with the J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism (2018) and the associated $1000 award. Dr Cadenhead’s article, “ Sport-related ocular trauma in Vancouver, ... her residency in anesthesia at UBC. Though her winning article is in the area of ophthalmology, she had a ...