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Letters / BY: Karen A. Gelmon, MD, FRCPC September 2008
... and, more recently, evidence for radiation therapy.[ 1 , 2 ] The recommendations of the SMPBC are based on evidence. ...
Letters / BY: Ian Gardiner, MD September 2008
... Canada count women who have had a mammogram in the prior 2 years, not the prior 12 months, thus overestimating the ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2008
... were about all the extra-to-the-office commitments my 251/2 hour day would allow.  I replied, “Well, I don’t think ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Marsha Taylor, MSc, September 2008
... ranges from 3 to 70 days, with a median of 3 weeks.[ 2 ] Symp­toms include fever, myalgias, headache, and ... stillbirth, or illness in the newborn may occur.[ 2 ] In BC between January 2002 and May 2008, 70 cases of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark R.C. Dickeson, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2008
... obligation. This ratio approaches zero in the first 2 years and then increases exponentially as you become more ... The first stop in my third year was Prince George for a 2-month endos­copy rotation. A lack of endoscopy ... and learning.   I was on call every day and night for 2 months, which did wear on me after a while.  At the same ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP September 2008
... in spite of an increase in BC’s population from about 2.5 million in 1980 to 4 million in 2000, UBC’s first-year ... experts came together to plan and implement the program.[ 2 ] During the years that followed, UBC, UNBC, and UVic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) September 2008
... that doctors tend to settle near where they train[ 2 , 3 ] and that MDs of rural origin are more inclined to ... of their core obstetrics rotation in Duncan, and their 2-week mandatory orthopaedics rotation in Duncan, Nan­aimo, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert W. Armstrong, MD, PhD, FRCPC, September 2008
... to meet the realities of medical practice today.[ 1 , 2 ] In a recent study, the Institute of Medicine noted that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Eric Webber, MD, FRCSC, September 2008
... with the need to open a new training site every 1 or 2 years. The newest residency training site opened in Nanaimo ...
Clinical Articles September 2008
... integrated into the medical curriculum during the first 2 years of study, and in the new distributed education model ... gross anatomy sessions begin with a lecture followed by a 2- to 3- hour laboratory. Each laboratory begins with a ... has been integrated into various blocks of the first 2 years of the medical and dental programs. Histology ...