College Library /
BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS
January/February 2019
... in scholarly journals; thus, they escape the notice of medical databases such as Medline. Additionally, the US ... ), in the search results, limit the Article Types to “Guideline.” National Institute for ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC
July/August 2019
... Health Services, BCCDC —Tom Kosatsky, MD, MPH Medical Director, Environmental Health Services, BCCDC ... or funding that present a conflict of interest for this article. BC Centre for Disease Control Human health ...
Premise /
BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
May 2019
Medical evidence has a credibility problem that is rooted in ... most published research findings are false.”[ 1 ] In the article he likened medical research to a large RCT machine with three dials that ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
July/August 2019
... titling a letter to the editor in response to a published article: “Re: the title of the original article.” That is certainly appropriate if the letter ... by a Saudi physician sharing his experience just prior to medical training in Canada (“The Saudi resident and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD
March 2019
... and Laboratory Medicine, UBC —Mel Krajden, MD, FRCPC Medical Director, BCCDC Professor, Department of Pathology ... All inferences, opinions, and conclusions drawn in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the ...
Obituaries /
BY: Jill Ennals, RN
June 2019
... graduating in 1962. The inaugural issue of the UBC Medical Journal was printed in that year, highlighted by a comprehensive eight-page article written by this fourth-year student, titled “Trends in BC medical care.” How prophetic was his vision! This was an ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Farshad Hosseini, BSc
July/August 2019
... retrospectively from the clinical charts and electronic medical records of patients with hemophilia who underwent ... her initial vision for this project and we dedicate this article to her memory. Competing interests Dr Younger is a ... Orthopaedic Care. Regarding the study described in this article, Dr Younger received no fees or institutional support ...
Letters /
BY: Reza Afshari, MD, MPH, PhD
July/August 2019
The BC Medical Journal is always informative and appealing, ... including its January/February issue with the interesting article, “The world’s most poisonous mushroom, Amanita ... cap, stem, and volva, which is not correct. As a former medical and, recently, environmental toxicologist who used to ...
Obituaries /
BY: Norman D. Finlayson, MD
December 2019
On 24 October 2019, the medical profession lost one of its most loyal and dedicated ... one of the few non-physician honorary members of the BC Medical Association (as Doctors of BC was formerly called) ... about Jim’s storied career should read Dr Brad Fritz’s article in the January/February 2017 issue of the BC Medical ...
News
June 2019
... Cadenhead with the J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism (2018) and the associated $1000 award. Dr Cadenhead’s article, “ Sport-related ocular trauma in Vancouver, ... her residency in anesthesia at UBC. Though her winning article is in the area of ophthalmology, she had a ...