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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD January/February 2017
... medical home? A patient medical home is a longitudinal GP practice in which doctors are supported to practise with the ... to additional health care services provided outside of the practice. By working within their practice and networking with other physicians and health care ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... of common clinical scenarios in a busy clinician’s practice. While most people in British Columbia and Canada ... available during any single clinical encounter in a busy practice. One possible solution is to complete the assessment ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2017
... part of their mandatory 8-week rural rotation. Although my practice is located on the periphery of Metro Vancouver, my type of practice has many of the characteristics of a rural family practice and is considered by the UBC Faculty of Medicine to ...
Premise / BY: Kevin Wade, CD, MD, CCFP March 2017
As a recent UBC graduate and new-in-practice family physician, I read with interest the 2014 ...
Premise / BY: Martin C. Wale, BM BS, FRCPath, MBA March 2017
... a physician and their medical leader, is not to restrict practice but to ascertain what additional supports (training, ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD April 2017
... bond with other doctors regardless of their area of practice, age, or location. We were all trainees once, and we ... recollections of hilarious events during our training and practice that strike a chord with everyone. There was an ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2017
... doctors in caring for patients with chronic pain.   The Practice Support Program (PSP) Pain Management module One of ... and resources to patients.  Divisions of Family Practice resources Divisions around the province have created ... Surgeons of BC’s Methadone and Buprenorphine: Clinical Practice Guideline for Opioid Use Disorder[ 5 ] as the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou May 2017
... and initiatives currently being led by divisions of family practice. One example is North Peace Division’s team-based ... created when 16 of the community’s physicians left practice in 2013 and 2014, leaving 23 344 patients without ... the North Peace Primary Care Clinic, Fort St. John Family Practice Associates, and ABC Medical Clinic. Community and ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... topic, he uses stories from his patients’ lives and his practice to illustrate the different approaches to ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou June 2017
... the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s clinical practice guidelines for opioid prescribing[ 1 ] have inspired ... local and provincial levels.[ 2 ]  Divisions of family practice have been at the forefront of developing many of ... is a help line developed by the Nanaimo Division of Family Practice to support physicians who have questions about ...