Beyond Medicine /
BY: Benjamin Millar, MD,
March 2016
... social media is rapidly growing for medical education and practice sharing, and emergency medicine has been on the ... decade as a platform for sharing medical education and practice approaches among health professionals. A recent ... in favor of using social media as part of medical practice point to its ability to help people stay connected, ...
Letters /
BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD
May 2016
... pattern. I am unconvinced that high-volume low-intensity practice is a meaningful deployment of comprehensive medical ... emerging subspecialty of Internet-facilitated prescription practice (high-volume low-intensity on steroids) worries me ... excellent position paper, A Vision for Canada: Family Practice: The Patient’s Medical Home , but would point out ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Patricia Gabriel, MD, MSc, CCFP
October 2016
... in the Fraser Northwest (FNW) Division of Family Practice: New Westminster, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and ... Moody. The Comox Valley and Burnaby Divisions of Family Practice were added later in the study. Accounts were set up ... Costs were covered by the Divisions of Family Practice at a rate of $1.80 per minute. Interpreters were not ...
President's Comment /
BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS
September 2016
... in our province’s facilities, the divisions of family practice are already providing a strong voice for family ...
News /
BY: Laurie Cooper,
January/February 2016
... media communications officer for Divisions of Family Practice, spent 2 weeks volunteering with refugees on the ...
President's Comment /
BY: Charles Webb, MBChB
April 2016
... two residents, two physicians in the first 5 years of practice, and two physicians with expertise in the designated ... health and well-being: resilience in medical training and practice. The composition of caucus will more closely ...
Billing Tips /
BY: Keith J. White, MD
July/August 2016
... advice from well-intentioned colleagues. Look at your Practice Mini-Profile, and do not ignore flags. Don’t get ... you are audited. —Keith J. White, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Billing and audit: Avoiding ...
Letters /
BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD
March 2016
... I was making in support of full-service comprehensive practice. I was later approached by one of the more youthful ... For those of us in the UBC Class of 1974 who chose general practice as a career path, Marcus Welby was the role model we ... a business model that promoted high-volume low-intensity practice. It’s a small wonder that walk-in clinics began to ...
Letters /
BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC
May 2016
... be merit to PROMs data collection as a means of individual practice reflection, their usefulness cannot be extrapolated to treatment or practice comparisons without rigorous patient population ...
News
November 2016
Nearly 1300 doctors participated in 80+ Practice Support Program learning modules within the last ... than just meds. To learn more visit www.pspbc.ca . News Practice Support: 1300 docs ...