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Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD January/February 2019
... My emails live in an institutional account in an academic practice. I really, truly understand and respect limitations ... plans, mistakes, and promises made.  I also run a practice where photographs are important. Patients living in ... safely communicate important questions or concerns. This practice is imperfect and reprimandable, but the proper ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... attend mental health and addiction counseling. The General Practice Services Committee’s Practice Support Program and website have also improved ... workshops, and telephone coaching. The Divisions of Family Practice website includes a number of resources and ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Paul Dhillon, MBBChBAO, LRCP&SI, EMDM, CCFP, DRCOG, DTM&H(Lon), FRGS March 2019
... Medicine. There is a disparity between the pass rates of practice-eligible candidates and residency-trained ... to preparation for the CCFP exam. Current residents and practice-eligible candidates were surveyed nationally to ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2019
... met my wife here, twice.* I managed to build a busy family practice while working at Langley Hospital, where I have ... physicians whom I am proud to call my friends. Joining a practice is like a marriage in many ways, so to those physicians considering joining a practice, I encourage you to choose wisely. I know I did. ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD April 2019
... I have gained along the way, despite only having been in practice for a short time. This period of transition is an ... my fellow colleagues who have also recently ventured into practice, let’s continue to learn and grow together. I look ... Editorials Reflections on my first year of independent practice, so far ...
Premise / BY: James M. Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC April 2019
... Therapeutics in cooperation with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. We are an ... The 2011 report of the US National Academies, “Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust,”[ 10 ] explores in depth ... type of complex multimorbidity seen by doctors in everyday practice.[ 11 ] We think that our careful and unconflicted ...
Premise / BY: Kelly Anne Cox, MD, MPH May 2019
... It is time for the province to follow evidence-based practice by removing barriers to LARC and funding it for ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2019
... in my community don’t look forward to this part of their practice. Listening to patients’ complaints and recording ...
Premise / BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP June 2019
... originally provided to my local division of family practice, is included below. It reflects the evolution of our ... Further considerations When I started family practice in 1982, I recall that a GP visit paid approximately ...
Editorials / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2019
... on the enormous changes I have witnessed in the practice of medicine since being licensed in 1986. I was born ... to do a rotating internship and then enter general practice, or use the year to do GP locums and then return, ... regretted my career choice. I had no idea on entering practice in 1986 that seismic shifts in the delivery of ...