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President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB April 2016
... others are appointed by their Board of Directors. At the Doctors of BC Board meeting held in February, a new process was approved by which Doctors of BC nominees for CMA Board delegates will be ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Goetz, MD, FRCSC, April 2016
The Projects and Innovation Committee, a joint committee of Doctors of BC and WorkSafeBC, is seeking proposals from the physician ... please contact one of the co-chairs: Tom Goetz, MD, at Doctors of BC ( vansurgdoc@gmail.com ) or Craig Martin, MD, ...
Letters / BY: D.S. Dhanda, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... attention that the BCMJ recently included advertising for Doctors of Optometry with a full-page ad and a rolling ... mission statement the focus on physicians, being “by BC physicians, for BC physicians.” Optometrists are not ... from a nonphysician group presenting themselves as doctors without explanation that they are not physicians, do ...
Letters / BY: Michael M. O’Brien December 2016
... none in the past? UBC Medicine graduated approximately 50 doctors in the early to mid-1960s compared to close to 300 ... that has increased only about 2.6 times, and the number of doctors in the province then (no orphans) was 1 for every 800 ... as was pointed out by a previous president of Doctors of BC; administrators being not well-informed administrators and ...
Letters / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... the profession, not necessarily the official position of Doctors of BC. Presidents who serve the association are given this forum ... in the future. —Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS Doctors of BC President Letters Re: Opioid prescribing. The ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD December 2016
... authority. That is entirely the responsibility of Doctors of BC, the advocate for the profession. We encourage Dr Harris ... of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia Letters The BC opioid crisis. The College replies ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper December 2016
This August the BCMJ conducted an online survey of Doctors of BC members. The objective was to gather member insights to ... information. The online survey sampled approximately 3000 Doctors of BC members, which is about one-third of active ...
News&Notes December 2016
... Vancouver resident Dr Rodney Andrew is this year’s BC winner of the College of Family Physicians of Canada’s ... Residency program. Each year the CFPC honors 10 family doctors—one from each province—who provide exceptional ... research and the education of future generations of family doctors. Nominated by their colleagues and respective ...
News&Notes December 2016
... stolen. While not many email accounts were affected, Doctors of BC is concerned there may be a targeted effort to hack into ... aware of the incidents, and MD Financial Management and Doctors of BC are implementing added security. All physicians ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... physicians better identify and support these individuals, Doctors of BC has developed a physician tool kit that provides practical ... care.  The tool kit accompanies our recently released Doctors of BC policy paper, Circle of Care: Supporting Family ...