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News / BY: Jessica Cavers May 2023
Now more than ever, Doctors of BC wants to showcase the amazing work being done by doctors ... To do this, May 2023 will be the first annual Doctors of BC Awards Month. Do you know a colleague or mentor who has ... If so, nominate them for one of the following Doctors of BC awards: Dr David M Bachop Gold Medal for Distinguished ...
News July/August 2023
... through a new provincial online booking system at gov.bc.ca/seeapharmacist . On 1 June 2023, pharmacists’ scope ... scope of practice expansion is an action from BC’s Health Human Resources Strategy, announced on 29 ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karen Takai, MSc September 2023
... workshops with contracted treatment providers throughout BC about the importance of and reason for this change. Each ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC December 2023
The new BC Pediatric Nutrition Guidelines[ 1 ] introduce a holistic, ...
News March 2023
Each year, Doctors of BC congratulates the many contributions of physicians, ... students around British Columbia through the Doctors of BC Awards. Three awards are also given to members of the ... M Bachop Silver Medal: Dr Alysson Hamilton Doctors of BC Silver Medal of Service:   Dr Ken Burns Dr Hyman Fox Dr ...
Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... 15 ] This is not always done, however. Even in BC, where self-referral is permitted, some women do not ... additional 16 cancers per 1000. Breast cancer screening in BC BC had the first organized mammography screening program in ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: James R. Gray, MD, FRCPC July/August 2023
... Colon screening Colorectal cancer screening strategies for BC have recently been revised and published by the Guidelines ... Advisory Committee, a joint committee of Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health.[ 2 ] The recommendations include risk ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Lisa Jeffery, MD November 2023
... surgery and endoscopy were permitted to proceed. The BC Colon Screening Program was also suspended from 1 April to ... 21 December 2020 – First COVID-19 vaccines deployed in BC. 31 March 2021 – Universal asympto­matic pre-op testing ... a provincial level and were similar at other hospitals in BC, so our experience is likely generalizable to other ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2023
... started his 1-year term as president of Doctors of BC on 1 January 2023. He spoke with BCMJ editor Dr Caitlin ... congratulations on your role as president of Doctors of BC. I’m excited to learn more about you; based on your ... life and career, and you started your work with Doctors of BC on the Rural Issues Committee. Tell me something about ...
News April 2023
The Doctors of BC 2022 Report to Members summarizes the efforts of hundreds of BC doctors working on the dozens of committees, the Board, ... Assembly, as well as the dedicated team at Doctors of BC that supports them. This year the report illustrates the ...