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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP April 2025
... threats, known as “manufactured insecurity,”[ 1 ] which can have harmful health effects. These range from ...
MDs To Be / BY: A. Gangji, MEd October 2025
... recognize the impacts of climate change on human health.[ 1 ] Medical schools are an appropriate place for students to ... Canada, a key component of the UBC MD curriculum in years 1 and 2 is case-based learning, during which students work ... increasing complexity, multiple times throughout years 1 and 2.[ 7 ] Methods We convened a multidisciplinary team of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Alex Kilpatrick, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2025
... screening and interventions to mitigate future risks.[ 1 ] Socioeconomic disadvantage compounds these challenges. ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Bal Hannay May 2025
Scenario 1: You request that a WorkSafeBC medical advisor call you to ... details with WorkSafeBC directly, either by calling 1 844 276-3344 or submitting a Request for Direct Deposit in ... you need to change it. Call WorkSafeBC Payment Services at 1 888 422-2228 to find out.  What happens when you submit a ...
Original Research / BY: Christina W. Lee, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2025
... until standard treatments are considered futile.[ 1-3 ] Physicians’ erroneous assumptions of patients’ ... treatments at a high cost, both financially and morally.[ 1,2 ] Shared decision making is a fundamental tenet of ... were conducted. Three overarching themes were identified: (1) palliative care in surgery is important, but not all ...
Original Research / BY: Amina Moustaqim-Barrette, MSc April 2025
... illness and mortality early in the COVID-19 pandemic.[ 1 ] Canadian data indicate that although individuals 70 years ... care in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, which serves 1.25 million people. The facilities are located in the Howe ... approved by Health Canada on 9 December 2020, less than 1 year after the novel virus was first identified. An ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD June 2025
... and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in 1995.[ 1 ] This is a day for Indigenous people and communities to ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD October 2025
... and then over 2 years of subspecialty training, with 1 year out for serious health problems. That is 18 years ...
News January/February 2025
... Committee. Dr Thompson will begin his new role on 1 January 2025, when Dr Charlene Lui, the current ...
Letters / BY: Gary C. Jackson, MD April 2025
... dysplasia with over 95% sensitivity and specificity.[ 1 ] For those not familiar with colposcopy statistics, that ...