November

The venerable BCMJ has some company, and maybe some competition.

(Man in loose pants, decorated in gold chains, cap on backwards, wife-beater T-shirt, baggy jeans with underwear sticking out enters stage left, extends arms with palms turned out and elbows bent, enters.)

“Woooord. What’s up?”

Actually, I don’t mean that kind of attitude, but it would be pretty funny if I were from the ’hood and a bunch of middle-class Canadian kids were trying to imitate me. 

The BC Lung Association, with support from the BC Ministry of Environment, has developed information on air pollution and health for BC physicians. The materials are available at the BC Lung Association web site (www.bc.lung.ca/airquality_primer.html). 

Would you like to learn how to conduct efficient and refined literature searches using evidence-based principles, com­pile print and electronic bibliographies, access the full text of articles, and evaluate authoritative consumer information on behalf of your pa­tients? 

Would the addition of audio and video continuing education re­sources make the session even more attractive? What if the workshop were actually coming to your neighborhood? 

In order to better understand the decline in family practice, and to develop strategies to reverse this trend, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) held consultations in 2004 and 2005 called Professional Quality Improvement Days with about 1000 general practitioners.