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Clinical Articles / BY: Sean Duke, MSc, MD April 2022
... highly accessible alternative to traditional, academic centre-based simulation training. Additional benefits include ... throughout five departments in a pediatric tertiary care centre.[ 18 ] The program delivered experiences that were ... workspace. A recent example of a similar initiative is the BC Simulation Network’s COVID-19 Simulation Guide, which ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... or probable Lyme disease. However, and particularly in BC, where Lyme disease occurs infrequently, physicians often ... Epidemiology and distribution of ticks and Lyme disease in BC Historically, BC was well ahead of any other province in ... universally in North America, Europe, and Asia. The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) Public Health Laboratory ...
News / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2022
... crisis By Susan D. Martinuk. Winnipeg: Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-7776577-4-1. ... of the ongoing case of Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. BC , initially unsuccessful in the BC Supreme Court in 2020, currently awaiting a decision by ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elizabeth Purssell, MD, MSc September 2022
... centres are mainly in Ontario and Quebec, and there is one centre in British Columbia. However, there has been a paucity ... conducted at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, BC. It is the only Canadian level 1 trauma centre in a health ... medical record data for trauma patients recorded in the BC Trauma Registry who presented to our emergency department ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP April 2022
Try to find a family doctor in BC and you will be sadly disappointed. Patients are now ... become a patient of the James Bay Urgent and Primary Care Centre 2 years ago. She still has no family physician. She ... is $300 000; in Alberta it is $250  000 to $300 000. BC lags far behind. The first step our government needs to ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Cheryl Young, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... death.[ 9 ] Given this concern, we reviewed calls to the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (BC DPIC) about exposure to ivermectin and two related ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rahel Zewude, MD May 2022
... testing, management, and prevention of STIs in BC. We focus on those pathogens tested in routine screening, ... vaccination has been part of the immunization schedule in BC since 1992, whereas HPV vaccination was introduced in 2008 ... support is available from the physicians and nurses at BC Centre for Disease Control sexually transmitted infections ...
Premise / BY: Karen Trollope-Kumar, MD, PhD, CCFP April 2022
... on the website of the National Eating Disorder Information Centre ( www.nedic.ca ). Body Brave is a charitable ... a partnership with Careteam Technologies, founded by BC physician-innovator Dr Alexandra Greenhill. Using the ...
News October 2022
... reproductive health and is also co-director at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine and a clinical associate ... Dr Aldred is the medical director for primary care for BC’s First Nations Health Authority, the site director for ... care team, which serves 12 communities in north-central BC, and the Indigenous lead for the Rural Coordination Centre ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Rahana Harjee, MD, FRCSC April 2022
... with case-matched controls was conducted at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine, a private ... of asymptomatic infections because, as is the case across BC, patients were not routinely tested for COVID-19 before ... controls was conducted at a private fertility centre in BC. In vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection ...