President's Comment /
BY: Jack Burak, MD
January/February 2005
... limits government in determining where physicians can practice. • The requirement that government reimburse ... Rural, Salary, Sessional, Service Contract, and General Practice). • The right to be represented by the BCMA during ... in, or control over, audit and inspection and patterns of practice. The BCMA has previously negotiated the sole right ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ian L. Mitchell, MD, FRCP
March 2005
... style is contrary to my normal pharmacological practice of “start low, go slow, and aim high” only one ...
Editorials /
BY: Shaila Misri, MD, FRCPC
March 2005
... UBC’s medical students, psychiatry residents, and family practice residents. As well, the program attracts residents ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Paul Dhillon, MBBChBAO, LRCP&SI, EMDM, CCFP, DRCOG, DTM&H(Lon), FRGS
March 2005
The debate on the future of family practice in Canada is of the utmost urgency; it cannot be ... Resident Matching Service to consistently fill family practice residencies threatens the existence of the Canadian ... in another decade if the current trend of unfilled family practice residencies continues? Relevance Both federal and ...
News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
March 2005
... Braid, CEBS BCMA Benefits Department Book reviews Bloody Practice: Doctoring in the Cariboo and Around the World . ... Press, 2003. ISBN 0-920576-97-4. 143 pages. $18.95. Bloody Practice is a collection of short stories and essays ... Medicine, the Medical Post, Alberta Reviews, Family Practice , and the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. The ...
President's Comment /
BY: Jack Burak, MD
March 2005
... physicians augmented by an increasing number of those in practice that are not accepting new patients. I could ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Shaila Misri, MD, FRCPC
April 2005
... results of which are now being integrated into clinical practice. The short-term effects of fetal exposure to SSRIs ... is preferred to the use of multiple medications. For best practice guidelines and other information for patients, ...
Editorials /
BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD
April 2005
... physicians on the temporary register for supervised practice in under-serviced areas of the province. With ... foreign-trained physicians to complete a 2½-year family practice residency. A few physicians may obtain a training ...
News /
BY: John McCracken, MD
April 2005
... eligible income in the prior calendar year and the type of practice assigned to the physician by MSP. Physicians under ...
Obituaries /
BY: Bruce F. Paige, MB
April 2005
... a type of personal care that is difficult to duplicate in practice nowadays. Dr Telford’s patients often were or ...