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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, May 2010
... work in geriatric psychiatry. She is the first doctor in BC to hold group visits for patients with dementia and their ... Services Committee (GPSC), a partnership between the BC Ministry of Health and the BCMA. GPSC supports doctors by ... in a large central space at the Smithers Healthy Living Centre and snacks are served. After confidentiality ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Andrew Montgomerie, June 2010
... verify the status of a claim by calling the Claim Call Centre. In the Vancouver area, call 604 231-8888; from elsewhere in BC, call toll free 1 888 967-5377. Training for MOAs and ... (see  Figure 1 ).  Then, on the Health Care Provider Centre page, click “Subscribe to receive Health Care ...
News September 2010
... ability to prevent HIV transmission is considered.  The BC government recently invested in a $48 million, 4-year ... Treat program is currently being evaluated as part of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS research program, Seek and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer M. Wilson, MD, FRCPC, May 2010
... can all be seen when looking at lung transplantation in BC today.  It is essential for those caring for patients ... when more specialized input from a lung transplant centre is desirable. Successes The field of lung ... the number of transplants that can be performed in BC and Canada is limited by the relatively small cadaveric ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, July/August 2010
... Breaking down the EMR adoption statistics in Canada, and BC in particular, provides a significantly more useful ... service). • Purely or primarily walk-in/treat­ment centre clinics. • Specialized GP and mixed GP/special­ist ... existing EMR users and implementations currently underway, BC is at around 90% adoption of EMR among large FSFP clinics ...
Letters / BY: R. Brar, MD January/February 2010
... editorial appeared an advertisement for the Cambie Surgery Centre, the private clinic with which Dr Day is affiliated. ... it discredits the  BCMJ  as an objective resource for BC physicians.  As members of the BCMA, we object to ... policy. Dr Day’s co-ownership of the Cambie Surgery Centre is a well-known fact both inside and outside the ...
News / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc June 2010
... to prevent drug-related falls—has been launched by the BC Fall and Injury Prevention Coalition.  The guideline will ... and Injury Prevention Coalition is associated with the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit ( www.injuryresearch.bc.ca ) and the Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, PhD July/August 2009
... CPD needs, the authors in­vited rural physicians across BC to share their opinions and to outline the challenges they ... the needs and challenges of rural physicians not only in BC, but also more generally in Canada and other countries. ... here, and with support from the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, the Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, September 2009
... it pertains to injuries their patients have suffered. In BC, ICBC is the only insurance provider for basic vehicle ... of the MVA, when they are most beneficial. ICBC and the BC Chiropractic Association have recently negotiated a ... with an adjuster and estimator at an ICBC Claim Centre. The adjuster will provide verbal and written ...
News / BY: Deirdre Maultsaid, July/August 2009
BC’s 1900 rural physicians will soon have access to rurally ... Development, with support from the Rural Coordination Centre of BC. The R-CPD program will work with rural physicians to ...