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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2016
... by the Directorate of Agencies for School Health (DASH) BC and Action Schools BC, with new government funding. During October the Doctors of BC Be Active Every Day initiative will be ... to engage as many students as possible. That means we need doctors in every community to step up and help us lead the ...
Letters / BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP September 2016
A recent article in the Globe and Mail , included in a Doctors of BC newsflash, led me to write about electronic health records ...
News&Notes December 2016
... Vancouver resident Dr Rodney Andrew is this year’s BC winner of the College of Family Physicians of Canada’s ... Residency program. Each year the CFPC honors 10 family doctors—one from each province—who provide exceptional ... research and the education of future generations of family doctors. Nominated by their colleagues and respective ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Stanger, MD, March 2016
... in a nonacademic setting.[ 6 ] In December 2010, the BC Ministry of Health sponsored a symposium on ... Stanger approached the Specialist Services Committee (a Doctors of BC and Ministry of Health joint committee) to fund a study of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Goetz, MD, FRCSC, April 2016
The Projects and Innovation Committee, a joint committee of Doctors of BC and WorkSafeBC, is seeking proposals from the physician ... please contact one of the co-chairs: Tom Goetz, MD, at Doctors of BC ( vansurgdoc@gmail.com ) or Craig Martin, MD, ...
Letters / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2016
...  Editorial Board should remain at arm’s length from the Doctors of BC Board. After input and support from the Governance ... reference were put forward to and accepted by the Board of Doctors of BC. We continue to review ways to maintain the ...
Letters / BY: Jack Boxer, MD November 2016
... to our prescribing practices. How much negotiating has Doctors of BC done on our behalf, pushing to establish Real Time Online Prescription Fulfillment (RTOPF) from doctors anywhere—at specialists’ offices, walk-in ...
News June 2016
... creating an optimal training environment for residents in BC. Congratulations to this year’s winners. Award of Merit: ... cardiac surgery and a staff congenital cardiac surgeon at BC Childen’s Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital. He has ... memento to recognize the achievement. News Resident Doctors of BC: 2015 award winners ...
News September 2016
... 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey and found that the BC data are comparable. In the national survey, 4 out of 10 ... receive public health coverage for counseling from medical doctors, yet many family physicians don’t have the time or ...
Letters / BY: Ronald Cridland, MD May 2016
I commend Dr Ron Wilson for encouraging doctors to practise health promotion in his article ... Lifestyle is a critical issue for all our patients. Doctors are the most influential health care practitioners. ... of chronic diseases in Canada any time soon. If Doctors of BC is interested in patients as much as doctors, they would ...