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Clinical Articles / BY: Mark R.C. Dickeson, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2008
... forever: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, General Surgery. I wandered about in a daze until I ... the necessary survival gear for a month in the wilds of BC: a stethoscope, white coat, several surg­ery texts, and ... me down to Williams Lake for the final stop on my tour of BC. Two months of rural general surgery, working with two ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP September 2008
... Columbia.  At the time, the only medical school in BC—the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British ... applicant pool of more than 700.  Young people in BC had fewer opportunities to become physicians than young ... in other parts of Canada. And in spite of an increase in BC’s population from about 2.5 million in 1980 to 4 million ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) September 2008
... we should be trying to educate. As in the rest of Canada, BC suffers not only from a shortage of physicians, but also ... experiences throughout Vancouver Island and northern BC. These clinical rotations in smaller communities are not ... such as the rural practice programs implemented by the BC government in conjunction with the BC Medical Association. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert W. Armstrong, MD, PhD, FRCPC, September 2008
The BC government has fund­ed a provincial medical school linked ... system during the last 30 years.  They are not unique to BC, as demonstrated by recent calls for broad educational ... as the BCMA and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, and the health authorities need a common vision of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Eric Webber, MD, FRCSC, September 2008
... exceeded their graduating pools. Furthermore, in 2001 BC was training half as many resident physicians per capita ... to be eligible for the first round of the CaRMS match in BC, IMGs must write a screening examination and complete a ... of medical graduates. Postgraduate expansion will help BC move toward net self-sufficiency in production of ...
Clinical Articles September 2008
The move to a distributed model of medical education in BC presented significant challenges when determining how to ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD October 2008
... are correct and accurate. For most physicians, the BC Personal Information Protection Act governs the ... retention, and disclosure of personal information. The BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act ... All medical practitioners in all workplaces in BC—including medical offices, clinics, hospitals, and ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, October 2008
... the Vancouver General Hospital and consulting staff of the BC Cancer Institute. During his long and productive clinical ... ultrasound were in their infancy. He became a leader in BC in problems of rhesus isoimmuinzaton at a time when being ...
News / BY: John McCracken, MD October 2008
... (OSMV), in partnership with the BCMA, is revising the BC Guide for Physicians in Determining Fitness to Drive a ...
News October 2008
In August the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, BC/Yukon Region, an­nounced the establishment of the Dr ...