Obituaries /
BY: Young Family
June 2022
... the farm on the new Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia. Two years later, the world economic crash ...
President's Comment /
BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD
June 2022
... of and stand for is the betterment of all our patients and British Columbians. When we mobilize together and act as one, ...
News
June 2022
... and learn about changes in the medical system here in British Columbia. Apps and social media The survey revealed ...
College Library /
BY: Chris Vriesema-Magnuson
June 2022
... BC Statistics: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/statistics British Columbia Centre on Substance Use: www.bccsu.ca ... Health Equity for Sexual and Gender Diverse Communities in British Columbia: ... level for particular health conditions or populations. The British Columbia Centre on Substance Use offers data and ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Clare McGinness, MD, MRCGP
June 2022
... in their second year of residency at the University of British Columbia. The year-2 family medicine residents ...
Premise /
BY: Renee Fernandez, MD, CCFP
June 2022
... measure to meet the immediate health care needs of British Columbians. There was no time for thoughtful, ... have the opportunity to reimagine the future of care for British Columbians and the future of work for BC physicians. ... role to play, especially for the more than 750 000 British Columbians who do not have a family doctor. We ...
Editorials /
BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP
June 2022
... the second of a two-part series on infectious diseases in British Columbia (part 1 appeared in the May 2022 issue of ... 29 (0.67 per 100 000). Rates of chronic hepatitis B in British Columbia (21.7 per 100 000 population) were above ... an analysis of travel-acquired infections and illnesses in British Columbians based on data from the GeoSentinel global ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM
June 2022
... by Ixodes ticks, colloquially called deer ticks. In British Columbia, the disease is transmitted predominantly by ... by Borrelia burgdorferi . Its prevalence is quite low in British Columbia compared with eastern North America. BC has ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon
June 2022
... immigration, which doubled both nationally and in British Columbia from 2015 to 2019.[ 3 ] In 2019, ... site between September 2009 and September 2011; however, British Columbians represented only 7.3% of the travelers ... provincial data and reports communicable diseases among British Columbians. However, if travel-related illnesses ...