Clinical Articles /
BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC,
December 2009
... the most common sustained arrhythmia seen in clinical practice and accounts for the majority of arrhythmia-related ... rate control versus rhythm control. While clinical practice was dominated by the assumption of a benefit to ... is the most common sustained arrhythmia seen in clinical practice. Key advances over the past decade have helped guide ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD,
December 2009
... version 4J. City size was then used to classify each practice as rural (city size less than 10000) or urban (city ...
Editorials /
BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD
December 2009
... maintain a continuing competency program to promote high practice standards amongst registrants.” The College Bylaws ... process that assures currency and competence of medical practice is very much in dispute. For example, ... the left of the bell curve of competency and currency in practice are often in denial. Recertification examinations, ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brian Evoy, PhD,
December 2009
The Divisions of Family Practice initiative—launched about a year ago—now has ... Markey, now the physician lead for the Division of Family Practice in Chilliwack. “We’re going back into ... Dr Jeff Harries, physician lead for the Division of Family Practice in the south Okanagan. The threat was ...
ICBC /
BY: Laura Jensen, MD,
December 2009
... When a person makes a claim with ICBC, it is standard practice that he or she sign an authorization for the release ...
Letters /
BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC
December 2009
... society at large. • The overall quality of medical practice would improve since this system has built-in CME for ...
Letters /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
December 2009
... of thinking, particularly through the PITO Community of Practice initiatives, and through efforts to enable personal ...
Letters
December 2009
... ] highlights the current dysfunctional nature of medical practice in BC. There really should not be such a wide ... and there should be more in common with the patterns of practice of various “types” of physicians. The problem ...
Letters
December 2009
... out of the program; and in the last 33 years of my medical practice the evidence has been that if I did not make myself ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
December 2009
... and others have led the creation of local Communities of Practice (CoPs) to provide assistance to their colleagues ... where more complex network configurations exist in a practice. • Robust network devices suitable for a medical ... templates. • Specialty-specific communities of practice. • Definition of requirements for surgeons and ...