Premise /
BY: B.R. Ohata, MD, CM
July/August 2024
... Residents of rural, remote, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia face significant disparities in accessing ... rural patients. Specialists are distributed inequitably in British Columbia and tend to work in urban centres. It is ... pathways are supported by the Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia (RCCbc) and receive approximately 153 calls ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research /
BY: Amy Booth, MPH
December 2024
... 1956, Pap tests (cytology) have been the cornerstone of British Columbia’s Cervix Screening Program. In BC and ... Nations communities and organizations and Métis Nation British Columbia Chartered Communities in BC. We aim to ... Nations communities and organizations and Métis Nation British Columbia Chartered Communities in BC to deliver ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research /
BY: Frank X. Scheuermeyer, MD, MHSc
April 2024
... translates to 90 000 annual visits for chest pain in British Columbia.[ 2 ] While few of these patients will have ... hospital admissions. Methods: From 2017 to 2018, in 29 British Columbia emergency departments that had a wide range ...
Letters /
BY: Rylen A. Williamson, BSc
September 2024
... information. Some universities, such as the University of British Columbia, have included concussion education in their ... (class of 2026), Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia —Shazya Karmali, PhD Research Manager, BC ... of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia Director, Canadian Hospitals Injury ...
Letters /
BY: Valerie Taylor, MD, FRCPC, DRCPSC
June 2024
... The general surgery workforce versus population growth in British Columbia, 2012–2022” [ BCMJ 2024;66:46-50 ], the ...
Editorials /
BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC
November 2024
... At 16 years old and underage, he managed to enlist in the British Army. He recalled scores of men trudging through the ...
Letters /
BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP
March 2024
... BCMJ Editorial Board, to resist the temptation to quote British Columbia’s outgoing chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe, ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
September 2024
... age-standardized incidence, the number of cases in British Columbia is increasing due to population growth and ...
Letters /
BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC
December 2024
... the oversight of diagnostic parasitology testing in British Columbia are important and strike to the core of ... laboratory. The current standard laboratory requisition in British Columbia highlights dichotomous choices for a single ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles /
BY: Adrian Marcuzzi, BHSc
May 2024
... knee arthroplasty.[ 5 ] While there are no direct data for British Columbia, the prescription of tramadol/tapentadol in ... but can be inaccessible due to prolonged wait times in British Columbia. An increasing number of patients awaiting ...