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President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD January/February 2009
... to foreign-trained physicians, and expanding scope of practice to other health care workers such as nurse ... and midwives. In January, the mandated scope of practice of pharmacists has increased, and currently regulation has been proposed to expand scope of practice to naturopaths and optometrists. In the throne ...
News May 2009
The following new or revised clinical practice guidelines were recently posted on the Guidelines & ... Ministry of Health Services. News New or revised clinical practice guidelines ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, October 2009
The General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) tabled its seventh annual ... in its continued efforts to support full-service family practice in BC. Since its inception in 2002, the joint ... physicians are leading large-scale changes in clinical practice in British Columbia. We are ahead of many other ...
News March 2009
The General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) implemented the Practice Support Program (PSP) in May 2007 to support general practitioners in clinical redesign, practice management redesign, and optimizing clinical ...
Premise / BY: Alexandra Tcheremenska-Greenhill, MD, June 2009
... great textbook of modern medicine, The Principles and Practice of Medicine, and also married the love of his life, ... span, Osler witnessed revolutionary changes within the practice of medicine as well as the profession itself. He ... more struggling to find a locum/MD willing to take over a practice either to get time off or to retire. A world where ...
News / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2009
... the new department (was it not then a division?) of family practice in 1969. Lastly, if I may be allowed a little ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD April 2009
... enhanced in a number of ways and allows some medical practice income to coincide with partial disability payments. ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, September 2009
... to launch across BC in September—open to all GPs A new Practice Support Program (PSP) module is set to launch across ... says Liza Kallstrom, BCMA lead, change management and practice support. “The complexity of the symptoms often ... of the joint BCMA-Ministry of Health Services General Practice Services Committee (GPSC). For more information on ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Albert W. Chan, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... and coronary atherosclerotic disease common in cardiology practice.[ 1,2 ] For the past 3 decades, carotid ... were typical for patients in a cardiovascular practice. Of note, 24 of the 100 patients were symptomatic ... admission. Although clopidogrel use is part of routine CAS practice at Royal Columbian based on our experience in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2009
... its intention to substantially increase the scopes of practice of a number of health professions. This followed on ... take a serious look at these issues. Changes in scope of practice are not new, and in some cases are entirely ... Provinces are clearly looking to changes in scope of practice as one means of addressing health human resource ...