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Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and the BC Ministry of Health, with additional support provided by ...
News January/February 2017
Doctors of BC has discontinued the legal expense insurance program that ...
Letters / BY: Brady Bouchard, CCFP May 2017
... unnecessary, process that is medical privileging in BC (“Privileging for new medical school graduates in BC,” [ BCMJ  2017;59:123-124 ]). As I am currently going ... patient care or safety from the process. Dr Wale (of the BC Medical Quality Initiative) attempted a response [ BCMJ ...
Obituaries / BY: Jack Burak, MD July/August 2017
... other IMG physicians. He was the first director of the BC IMG Residency Ready Assessment program between 1996 and ... physicians for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC because of his reputation as an astute but fair and ... clinical director of the Practice Ready Assessment–BC program in January 2015. He guided this program during its ...
Obituaries / BY: Beverley Tamboline, MD October 2017
With the passing of Dr Eileen Cambon, BC has lost one of its pioneer female physicians. In 1958, Dr ... to become the first female ophthalmologist to practise in BC, and she did so for 44 years. She was a great role model ... Federation of Medical Women of Canada (FMWC) and was the BC branch president in 1964 and national president from 1973 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ronald A. Remick, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... a second-line treatment. What resources are available in BC? Jumpstep   Jumpstep is a 12-week treatment program for ... collaboratively between the Mood Disorders Association of BC and the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility. It is ... currently delivered by the Mood Disorders Association of BC in conjunction with the Greater Vancouver YMCA. In each ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM June 2017
... starting in 1983. Two MMR doses have been recommended for BC children since 1996. Mumps causes parotitis, but symptoms ... outbreaks in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC. Outbreaks likely reflect secondary vaccine failure from ... the vaccine strain and circulating outbreak strains. In BC outbreaks have occurred in two populations: an unimmunized ...
News June 2017
A team of BC doctors are working to open a multidisciplinary provincial ... Gastroenterologist Brian Bressler is leading a team of BC-based gastroenterologists, IBD researchers, and members of ... created a nonprofit society to build the IBD Centre of BC. Approximately 25 000 British Columbians have IBD (with ...
Obituaries / BY: John Ankenman, MDCM, FRCS September 2017
... Dr Herbert Fidler, he began the free Pap smear program in BC, which resulted in reducing deaths from cervical cancer by ... including chair of the Medical Ethics Committee of the BC government for organ transplants. He also chaired the ...
News November 2017
... people in British Columbia, conducted jointly by the BC Cancer Agency and First Nations Health Authority, shows a ... and not all First Nations, Métis, or Inuit peoples in BC.) The study affirms the need for a system-wide response to ... improve cancer diagnosis and care for Indigenous people in BC, which is why the First Nations Health Authority, BC ...