Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD
September 2008
... through outpatient clinics at hospitals, or in private practice through the Dietitians of Canada web site at ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC
September 2008
... technologies in health care. The demands of a busy practice and personal commitments combined with the daunting ... also includes a broader range of relevant areas such as practice management, interprofessional patient-centred care, ... assist clinicians with their clinical—and nonclinical—practice improvement. Courses and programs such as the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP
September 2008
... to teach the students clinical skills and community-based practice. Faculty development prepared tutors and physicians ... student body. Student clubs such as the Family Practice Interest Group meet by videoconference so that ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Barry Thorneloe (VFMP), MD
September 2008
... program over another when it comes to career choice and practice style. However, it is reassuring to know that while ... in engineering. My interests were primarily in family practice when I started, and as I head into my fourth year ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)
September 2008
... ways for students to immerse themselves in rural practice. Successful models of integrated clerkships have ... that exposing medical students and residents to rural practice has a better chance of success than more coercive ... have to be part of broader initiatives, such as the rural practice programs implemented by the BC government in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Robert W. Armstrong, MD, PhD, FRCPC,
September 2008
... physicians and the support of these physicians in clinical practice, academic pursuits, and leadership will define the ... broad educational reform to meet the realities of medical practice today.[ 1 , 2 ] In a recent study, the Institute of ... supporting professionalism: credentials, standards of practice, collegial relations, continuing professional ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Eric Webber, MD, FRCSC,
September 2008
... first, the positions would be split between family practice and Royal College specialties at a ratio of 40% to ... programs are at or near capacity. Current picture Family practice The Department of Family Practice has a long history of geographically distributed ...
Physician Spotlight /
BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS,
October 2008
... and overinflated egos. Ashley Krisman retired from active practice in 2000, but we continue to see his sharp mind and ... to residents in training. He retired from active clinical practice with the well-deserved rank of clinical professor. ... that he didn’t always have time for when in full, active practice in Vancouver. Charles Winfield Carpenter Charles ...
Obituaries /
BY: Cliff Henderson, MD,
October 2008
... Panton in Kelowna in September 1950 and remained in active practice until 1987. Paul loved playing tennis, which he ...
News
October 2008
... and peers alike, irrespective of geographic location or practice specialty. The Asklepios online community is only ...