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President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD January/February 2015
... expectation of success. A committee called the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC). Over the last 14 years ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Cathy Clelland, MD January/February 2015
... There is enhanced access for appointments. 5.    The practice includes well-supported information technology, ... health care provider satisfaction, knowledge, skills, and practice behaviors; broader range of services; better access, ... are four main issues: 1.    Clarification of scope of practice and roles 2.    Information sharing 3.    ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... case. In the 1920s medical specialties emerged and medical practice began to shift from home to office and hospital. ... and Surgeons of Canada in 1931. Since the 1950s general practice has become a specialty in its own right. As medicine ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD April 2015
Local divisions of family practice have identified team-based care as an integral part ... rates in BC. As of 1 March 2015, 22 divisions of family practice have completed an evaluation of their community ... recruitment, retention, and retirement strategies; practice support and coaching; and health promotion and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD May 2015
... service agreements in 2011 with local divisions of family practice and their respective health authority partners in ... with other stakeholders helped establish five best practice expectations for the provincial initiative: 1.    ... 5.    Attendance at case conferences These best practice expectations are anticipated to reduce unnecessary ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: John Hamilton, MD, July/August 2015
... being led by three joint clinical committees—the General Practice Services Committee, the Specialist Services ... operates at various levels, from physician-led changes in practice such as those implemented by community-based divisions of family practice involved in A GP for Me, to provincial-level ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2015
... Service—Dr Carole Williams Silver Medal in General Practice—Dr Matthew Petzold Dr Cam Coady Award Dr David ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB September 2015
... of geography, and to a much smaller degree by area of practice, and is supported by a number of committees, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD October 2015
... in residential care facilities. Five divisions of family practice began prototyping the initiative in 2011: ... who practise in communities in which no division of family practice has been formed are invited to self-organize and ... take place. In the past 4 months, 28 divisions of family practice have applied for funding for the planning phase of ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB October 2015
... that will last through medical school, residency, and into practice. At last month's event first-year medical students ...