Clinical Articles /
BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC
April 2009
... was assessed extensively in the mid-1980s by the family practice research group at the University of Calgary,[ 16 ] ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
July/August 2009
... can save the day. When it came time to open their own practice in Langley in 2003, Drs Leo and Flora Wong, both ... to electronic. Then, in 2007, Dr Young Suh joined the practice. He had worked in a clinic where most of the ... all of Young’s charts. Today the boxes are gone and the practice is again paperless. For Leo, the major advantage of ...
Letters /
BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC
December 2009
... society at large. • The overall quality of medical practice would improve since this system has built-in CME for ...
Obituaries /
BY: Terry Rutherford, MD,
January/February 2009
... named Prince of Good Fellows. In his last 10 years of practice he entered administration, being appointed vice ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
May 2009
... (e-referrals). In recent years specialists in private practice have tended to be more mobile than family ... really well and cost effectively through a community-of-practice approach.” Availability of electronic results ... Harries, leader of the South Okanagan EMR Community of Practice, has found that “the specialists in our community ...
Letters /
BY: John de Couto, MD,
October 2009
... of the usual organizations trying to revive primary family practice, with government incentives and multilevel calls for ... to me true ignorance. I have now brought my patients and practice to merge into an established walk-in clinic. New ... the onerous responsibilities of a full conventional practice with all the management responsibilities, overhead, ...
Obituaries /
BY: Henry Pauls, MD,
March 2009
... the University Hospital in Edmonton, then entered general practice in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, with Dr Verne Krause for a ... Marjorie Kruk, during that year and then went into general practice in Vancouver with the late Dr Pat Doyle. In 1953 Dave moved to Chilliwack where he had his own general practice for 9 years. He then decided to specialize in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Tarek Khalil, MPH, MD, MCFP,
July/August 2009
... and Labrador, and the Clinical Assessment for Practice Program (CAPP) of Nova Scotia. I was fortunate to ... Second, training could prepare IMGs for the realities of practice. Medical practitioners conduct between 120 000 and ... As IMGs will also conduct thousands of interviews once in practice, it is imperative that they obtain formal training ...
News
November 2009
... residents so that they are better prepared when they enter practice.” An assistant professor in the University of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
May 2009
... distributors identified a lack of standardized policy and practice.[ 5,6 ] To address these issues the HRSS committee has created a BC best practice document available at ...