The Emergency Medical Services Committee (EMSC) has played an important role for Doctors of BC over the past 50 years. Functioning under the umbrella of the Council of Health Promotion, the committee was established to be the formal medical liaison with the Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles (OSMV) in BC. Its purpose was to address medical issues affecting safe driving in British Columbia and to look for solutions.
Rapid Access to Consultative Expertise (RACE) is a telephone hotline that provides family physicians in the Vancouver Coastal Health region with timely access to specialist consultation. RACE enables family physicians to phone a single number and request a telephone consultation with an on-duty specialist from one of 18 medical specialties. Calls are returned within a maximum of 2 hours and often sooner, with over 75% of calls returned within 10 minutes.
Do you know a medical student or resident who advocates for change in health care? Nominate them for the recognition they deserve in the first annual Doctors of BC Changemaker Awards.
The Changemaker Medical Resident and Student Advocate Awards recognize a Doctors of BC medical resident member and a Doctors of BC medical student member who goes out of their way to advocate for a stronger health care system.
Doctors of BC members are invited to attend the 2018 annual general meeting (AGM) on 2 June 2018 at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre (UBC Campus, 6163 University Blvd., Vancouver). Onsite registration opens at 8:15 a.m. and the AGM will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Jack Poole Hall.
