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Letters / BY: Ivor McMahen, MD, June 2009
... should really have read “Assessing EMR’s readiness for BC physicians.” I’m definitely not an expert, but I have ... Polish-speaking secretary, and then, when doctors fail to communicate, lamenting their lack of ... remedy the progress-killing situations in the system; and doctors will need to come to the table with understanding, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tarek Khalil, MPH, MD, MCFP, July/August 2009
... are evaluated. In British Columbia, the need for more doctors[ 4 ] means that international medical graduates ... pas­sed. Subsequently, 5 of the 6 IMGs who took the BC CaRMS as­sessment were offered residencies and the 2 ... Enhancing the interviewing skills of foreign-trained doctors upgrades their skills to the levels taught by ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Arif, MD, July/August 2009
I have recently moved from Ontario to BC in rural family practice. I work in the clinic and hospital full-time in Invermere, BC. In Ontario every doctor’s office was supplied with a ... of protective masks, gowns, etc., after the deaths of doctors, nurses, and paramedics in the SARS outbreak in ...
Letters / BY: Ari Giligson, MD, July/August 2009
While I agree with Dr Murray’s basic assertion that BC could be graduating more MDs (“BC needs another medical ... and some bureaucrats is that there is a need for more doctors. As a retired MD who practised and taught in BC from ... and some bureaucrats is that there is a need for more doctors. As a retired MD who practised and taught in BC from ...
News / BY: S. William A. Gunn, FRCSC, July/August 2009
... & the Cold War . By John Farley. Van­couver, BC: UBC Press, 2008. ISBN 978-7748-1476-8. Hardcover, 254 ... Victoria, where he even ran briefly as a candidate in the BC provincial elections. Among his many international, ... medical class graduation his passionate message to us new doctors was “safeguard your youthful vision and work health ...
News / BY: Deirdre Maultsaid, July/August 2009
... house for women and their children. We can assist doctors, police, and social workers on how to best respond. ... 604 872-8302; 604 872-8212 (24/7) www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca —Louisa C. Russell Vancouver Rape Relief and ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2009
... recipients, thanked all members for their donations to the BC Medical Foundation’s Benevolent Fund, stating it was ... This motion was carried. The issue of the family doctors shortage was discussed, especially in light of ... for complex cases when the patients no longer have family doctors to care for them.” This motion was carried. To a ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2009
... Participants liked that the BCMJ is written by and about doctors from their own medical communities.  Surprisingly, ... its endeavor to be a publication that the physicians of BC can be proud of. This is your Journal and your input is ... Broadway, Vancouver, V6J 5A4) or e-mailed ( journal@bcma.bc.ca ). I might have forgotten to mention our web site ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... in Whitecourt, Alberta, moving 1 year later to Burns Lake, BC, where he remained for 9 years. He was involved in the ... that I didn’t want to have a boss all my life, and I saw doctors as being their own bosses.  It sounds like you ... life my greatest accomplishment is being one of the 23 doctors who stood together as the Northern Rural Doctors ...
Letters / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2009
... the functionality of EMRs and physician adoption in BC. First, many physicians in BC are making extraordinary use of very powerful ... Regarding EMR uptake, Dr McMahen voiced concern that “BC doctors are not exactly beating a path to the EMR door”; ...