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News / BY: Ciara Chamberlain, MSc, October 2009
... UBC celebrated the release of the first issue of the  UBC Medical Journal , the official student peer-reviewed ... of all four years and three distributed sites of UBC medical students, as well as faculty members and special ... med.journal@ubc.ca if you are interested in submitting an article, becoming a reviewer, subscribing to the journal, or ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, October 2009
... 1996 Dr D.L. Sackett and colleagues published a landmark article that established the core principles of ... history of clinical trials began in the 1940s, when the Medical Research Council in the UK conducted two clinical ... Clinic with the high mortality was used by physicians and medical students, the Second Clinic with the low mortality ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, November 2009
... and some aspects of injury claims management from a medical perspective. Generally, medical information is obtained from the treating ... Medical Community Liaison The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily ...
Letters / BY: Albert W. Chan, MD, FRCPC, November 2009
... (“Re: CAS” BCMJ 2009;51[7]:284)  to the original article (“Carotid artery stenting by a cardiovascular ... BCMJ 2009;51[1]:14-19 ).  With every new or competing medical technology there are usually a lot of debates, and ... event related to the procedure. While in the original article I mentioned that “dilation of a stent… is crucial ...
News / BY: Laura Weingarten, BA, November 2009
... evidence to answer common clinical questions.  Each article assesses how well our clinical findings on history ... Each chapter of the text begins with an original JAMA article and then explores any new evidence produced since its ... medicine. It is probably most useful to senior medical students and to clinicians in primary care ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, December 2009
... that he or she sign an authorization for the release of medical information. This authorization allows the ... with a representative of ICBC or to send a copy of all medical records (including pre-accident records if ... Medical Community Liaison The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily ...
Letters / BY: Roy C. Schofer, MD, December 2009
... October cover. Totally inappropriate and unfeeling for a medical journal. —Roy C. Schofer, MD Vancouver I have never ... so, why not? If I was the author of the other­wise fine article, “Criteria for sedation of psychiatric patients for ... transport in British Columbia,” I would have pulled the article rather than have it published in a journal which, if ...
Letters December 2009
The article by Jeremy Smith en­titled “The unique EMR needs of ... ] highlights the current dysfunctional nature of medical practice in BC. There really should not be such a ... keep track of all of the episodes in the patient’s medical history and be available to all types of physicians ...
Letters December 2009
I enjoyed Dr Greenstone’s article, “The roots of evidence-based medicine,” as ... evidence was that I would not even get an interview for medical school unless I achieved a 92% average; in medical school the evidence was that if I did not show up for ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD December 2009
... escalating incidence of H1N1 in early October (when this article was written), exposure control in doctors’ offices ... to young adults (age 20 to 40) who have no known premorbid medical conditions. Patients with flu-like symptoms such as ... WorkSafeBC Director of  Clinical Services and  Chief Medical Officer —Geoffrey Clark, MSc, CIH, ROH WorkSafeBC ...
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