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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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Steven Larigakis, MD March 2019
... ages), the White Rock–South Surrey Division of Family Practice partnered with the Peace Arch Hospital and Community ...
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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Elizabeth Wiley, MD, JD, MPH May 2019
... numerous and multifaceted with implications for clinical practice across specialties.[ 2 ] Although often unseen, and ...
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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC June 2019
... who pride ourselves on professionalism and evidence-based practice, we need to become more aware of our assumptions and ... with obesity from feeling humiliated or unwelcome. The practice of routinely weighing all patients should be ...
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 ...