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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD January/February 2011
... causes of overweight/obesity (CMAJ 2006 Canadian clinical practice guidelines on the management and prevention of ... Research supports motivational interviewing as best practice to effect change. Motivational interviewing ...
MDs To Be / BY: Disha Mehta, BSc, July/August 2011
... Minds team, recently met a patient, Mr X, during a family practice placement. He was new to the practice and was seeking a physician to help him manage ... assistant professor in the UBC Department of Family Practice, and our community mentors, the late Ms Jackie ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD November 2011
... are not sensitive to the antibiotics we like to use. The practice of medicine would drastically change if antibiotics ... which in turn can promote horizontal gene transfer. This practice creates antibiotic resistance genes, which cannot be ...
MDs To Be / BY: Devina Wadhwa, November 2011
... mistake by a trainee may also haunt his or her future practice in medicine. Toward ethical volunteering How can one ...
MDs To Be / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, November 2011
... to type quickly! You are a great champion for family practice. How did you choose this for your career?  At the ... and truly wooed me. That was it. I joined the UBC Family Practice Program where I had the opportunity to meet some ... medicine changed over the years? When I started in family practice, it was just presumed that you would do ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2011
... 5 ] include:  • Naturopathic medicine (whose scope of practice, we are told, “includes all aspects of family and ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2011
... was to be­come a very successful 22-year period in the practice of family medicine.  Those early days were, to many, the “golden era” of modern medical practice in BC. Vancouver General Hospital was a complex ... suffer.  Not only did Mark immerse himself in clinical practice in those early years, including leadership roles at ...