Search

Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi July/August 2018
... in accessing primary care, four divisions of family practice have partnered with local health care stakeholders ... community agencies,[ 3 ] the Nanaimo Division of Family Practice opened the first division-organized school clinic at ... Partnership and Integration, Doctors of BC Family Practice Services Committee Division-led school clinics ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... disease, reduces long-term CV risk. Worldwide, clinical practice guidelines based on the best available evidence ... Canadian Diabetes Association, which publishes clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and management of ... Advisory Committee (GPAC), which publishes clinical practice guidelines for use in BC on many topics, including ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG April 2018
... from medical school. That was 47 years ago, and medical practice was … different.  In 1971, the BCMJ was already ... majority of space was taken up with that era’s pressing practice issues: a physician’s take-home income, ... no immediate related correspondence. Many of the tools of practice that we now cannot do without were either ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi September 2018
... conversations, the Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice created the Dementia Roadmap for Practitioners and ... Okanagan Similkameen, and Vancouver Divisions of Family Practice; and in the community of Camrose in Alberta. The ... Director, Community Partnership and Integration Family Practice Services Committee Helping patients and families ...
Obituaries / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD March 2018
... at the Elgin Medical Clinic, Yan started a solo general practice in Coquitlam in December 1961. Thus began his ... term punctuality almost ceased to exist in his vocabulary, practice, and family life. Common were calls to Jean that he ... end, in his work clothes until morning. In this milieu his practice thrived and his family flourished. His practice was ...
Obituaries / BY: Jill Calder, MD, FRCPC January/February 2018
... her own medical career and advocacy work. Tom’s busy practice was old-fashioned, full-service medicine with house ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews July/August 2018
... and skills that I wanted to keep as part of my future practice. I loved Montreal and learned French while I was ... in the last year: through our participation in the General Practice Services Committee, Doctors of BC is influential in ... views of all members, no matter their location, type of practice, stage of practice, or demographics. We are diverse ...
Letters / BY: Shaun Humphreys, MD, CCFP December 2018
... to fund opportunistic influenza immunization in general practice? As things stand, GPs receive no additional ...
Letters / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD January/February 2018
The Medical Services Commission (MSC), not the Patterns of Practice Committee, has regulatory authority over the MSC ... of first resort. —Lorne Verhulst, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Letters Re: Am I overservicing my ...
Billing Tips / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD April 2018
In 2014 the Patterns of Practice Committee published the following information about ... like to avoid.  —Lorne Verhulst, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Audit red flag: Treating a ...