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News January/February 2012
Since 2003, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC), a joint committee of the ... mandate to support the provision of full-service family practice and improve patient care. Through initiatives such as the Practice Support Program, Divisions of Family Practice, and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2012
... providers of health care have recently had their scopes of practice expanded.  In addition to government’s blindness ...
MDs To Be / BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC October 2012
... a commitment to physician health and sustainable practice.”[ 1 ]  Medical associations are beginning to ... of physicians admitted to self-prescribing medications, a practice that is considered unethical by all medical ...
Obituaries / BY: M. VanAndel, MD March 2012
... of Canada exams, leading to licensure for independent practice in BC in July of 1967. After a year or two of association in practice with a local general practitioner, Tom established his own practice in New Westminster.  His significant clinical and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Forbes, MD, September 2012
... because recurrence is a concern after hernia repair, the practice of recommending extended convalescence has persisted ... of new technologies and techniques has challenged the practice of recommending a prolonged period of convalescence ...
News December 2012
... appointments included head of the Department of Family Practice at Shaughnessy Hospital and director of the Inpatient Family Practice teaching ward at the University of British Columbia. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David D. Sweet, MD, FRCPC May 2012
... Evidence 2 Excellence employs an electronic community of practice, popularized by Wenger and colleagues,[ 52 ] to ... and trainee arrangements, resources, and other aspects of practice. Thus, a critical strength of this study is that it ... of safely and effectively applying evidence to clinical practice. The reasons for this difficulty are multifactorial ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Karen Wanger, MDCM, FRCPC, FACEP, October 2012
... as a specialty and an expansion in the paramedic scope of practice. To­day’s paramedics are expected to make complex ... medical services (EMS) operation itself. The scope of practice for EMS phy­sicians has grown, and represents a practice with a unique, definable, and growing body of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... The police have said that they will not change their practice for processing charges in this range. However, the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gibong Lee, BSc(Pharm), MD, July/August 2012
... are now available. Current use is limited to veterinary practice, where levamisole serves as an anthelmintic.[ 3 ] ...