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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2008
... happened about 6 months after I started private practice in Richmond. The incident started innocently enough ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Dan McCarthy, MD January/February 2008
... the Complex Care Fee introduced last spring, the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) has revised the fee. ... introduced by the GPSC as part of its Full Service Family Practice Incentive Program. Altogether these incentives are ... one piece of the GPSC’s overall strategy for supporting practice change by GPs and achieving comprehensive renewal of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD March 2008
... mental health initiative launched by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) 1 January 2008. “The ... or by other medical professionals directly under the GP or practice group’s supervision (e.g., MOA or office nurse), ... initiative fees are payable to the general practitioner or practice group that accepts the role of being “most ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2008
... visits—underlines the urgency of efforts by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) to support BC’s family physicians. “In modern family practice, the monitoring of chronic ailments is more ... pace with the changing nature of their work, the GPSC’s Practice Support Program has developed a chronic disease ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG April 2008
... I have had insight into just about every aspect of medical practice in this province and have been greatly reassured by ... provide valuable state-of-the-art summaries of areas of practice that are targeted at the physicians of British ... doctors of BC for the doctors of BC, the lighter side of practice is reflected in whimsical Back Page articles and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
... developed by the joint BCMA/Ministry of Health General Practice Services Committee (GPSC), also supports additional training for graduating family practice residents interested in incorporating obstetrics into their practice from the start.  In Victoria, Dr Marina Thibodeau ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2008
... used to find out about issues affecting medical practice in BC. There is really something for everyone in ... which have been positive. Once Pat retired from clinical practice she continued on as editor emerita, providing ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, July/August 2008
... group visits—one of four modules offered by the General Practice Services Committee’s Practice Support Program (PSP).  The Quesnel GP, who ... GP Dr Allison Rankin says group visits would work in any practice with complex or elderly patients, or those with ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD July/August 2008
... at first glance appeared to be deep incursions into the practice of medicine, presumably in response to public ... speech in which promises were made to enhance the scope of practice of existing health care professionals and expand ... with the patients’ pharmacist to ensure best practice. It does not appear that this is a hill that anyone ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, September 2008
A Practice Support Program (PSP) learning module de­signed to ... in the full module himself. “I’ve been in practice since 1995 and year after year I’ve seen a ... debating and learning from each other—I saw family practice being reinvigorated.”  A bonus effect of patient ...