News
November 2015
Nominations of Doctors of BC members in good standing are being accepted for the following 2016 awards. Doctors of BC Silver Medal of Service Award This is awarded to ... 25 years of membership in good standing with Doctors of BC, the CMA, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of ...
News /
BY: Sinden Luciuk,
November 2015
Doctors of BC now provides legal expense insurance to all members at no ... was added as a benefit of membership with Doctors of BC effective 1 September 2015. The coverage is automatic; no ... cover the legal costs to refute the valuation. Doctors of BC Legal Advice Help-line Access the helpline at 1 877 ...
News
November 2015
... at the Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI) BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British ...
News
November 2015
... The study was conducted as a collaboration between the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and BC Women’s Hospital’s Oak Tree Clinic. The resulting ...
Obituaries /
BY: Victor Wong, CD, MLIS
November 2015
... 1964. Dr Wong then established another practice in Michel, BC, where his son, Victor, was born in 1965. A year later Dr ...
President's Comment /
BY: Charles Webb, MBChB
November 2015
... and with our allied health professionals. Doctors of BC has a history of engagement and collaboration that has ... in North Vancouver and University Hospital of Northern BC in Prince George, have been officially incorporated. ... this initiative grows and spreads throughout facilities in BC, engagement will vary from site to site and will be ...
Beyond Medicine
November 2015
... was observed throughout most regions of the province. The BC Centre for Disease Control’s Influenza Surveillance ... the proportion of visits to sentinel physicians and to the BC Children’s Hospital emergency room for influenza-like ... treatment, oseltamivir has been found to be underused in BC, especially in the highest-risk age groups.[ 22 ] To ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd
November 2015
... 1987. The tradition of service to the physicians of BC runs in the family—this year marks lawyer Jack Webster ... from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, Doctors of BC, and the Law Society of BC. The committee aims to foster ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP
December 2015
... changes in the delivery and utilization of health care in BC. These include changes in health care consumer patterns ... remains limited. It is now estimated that 176 000 BC residents do not have a regular personal family ... Support Program, the Divisions of Family Practice in BC, and A GP for Me. In other provinces several similar ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Elspeth M. McDougall, MD, FRCSC, MHPE,
December 2015
... practice and debriefing process. Simulation use in BC The BC Provincial Simulation Coordination Committee (PSCC) was ... resource for all simulation-based health care education in BC. Most recently the Ministry of Health and Ministry of ...