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News October 2011
... by the Ministry in partnership with the BCMA’s General Practice Services Committee. Studies show that a structured ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2011
... finding without expanding testing into routine clinical practice. This inability to decrease the proportion of those ... to expand HIV testing within the contexts of their own practice. One approach to a pilot phase of routine testing, ... explore how to integrate HIV testing into routine clinical practice. Acknowledgments The authors thank Ms Elizabeth ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD May 2011
... BCMJ  Editorial Board. The number of divisions of family practice in BC continues to grow, with four now representing ... distance between participating communities, the General Practice Ser­vices Committee (GPSC) and the Joint Standing ... attention on this issue, thanks to the Divisions of Family Practice model and their CSC committee.  This experience is ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2011
... during a meeting about developing a division of family practice in my community. During this meeting I found myself ... good things that had happened through the GPSC (General Practice Services Committee) and how I was beginning to feel ... all the confrontation with government through my years of practice. I mused that perhaps dinosaurs like me would have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dan Bilsker, PhD, December 2011
... attention to generate information that can guide clinical practice and prevention strategies in ways that will prove ... resources into systematic research and enhanced clinical practice. In­stead, the high rate of male suicide has been ... suicide.36 Recognition of suicide indicators in clinical practice is especially problematic, given the disinclination ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD March 2011
... them to get a general licence to do locums or open a practice. At the end of medical school and internship, they ... general doctors with doors open to most op­tions of practice or training. There are problems with requiring ... internships contribute significantly and positively to the practice of medicine, confidence, maturity, exposure to new ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD June 2011
... not be used routinely in emergency departments, primary practice, and psychiatry.[ 1 ] The screening tool involves ...
Editorials / BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC October 2011
... the physicians’ awareness of provincial clinical practice guidelines on cognitive impairment and appropriate ... the use of clinical tools can improve physician practice performance.[ 1 ] The Dementia Education Project ( ... primary care physicians that will permit delivery of best-practice care for seniors with mental health problems.  ...
News April 2011
... tools to help integrate these guidelines into clinical practice. These include an “app” (smart phone ...
Obituaries / BY: Jim Gilmore July/August 2011
... the lives of thousands of people, in his medical practice in Oak Bay for 40 years and though his exceptional ...