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President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC April 2024
... valued. Increasingly, the administrative burdens of practice have led to concerns about physician wellness and ...
Letters / BY: Thomas J. DeMarco, MD, June 2024
... primary care [ BCMJ 2024;66:14-15] . I have been in family practice for 40 years. I have been on call for most of that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2024
... in 2012 showed that 158 general surgeons were in full-time practice at hospitals in BC, which was 74 less than the ... with informal arrangements did not. This is a new model of practice in busier hospitals where surgeons do not have a traditional elective practice with associated elective operating room and ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... physicians willing to start or remain in a longitudinal practice. Slow medicine originated in Italy (after the slow ... experimenting with implementing the approach in my own practice. I’ve scheduled more time with patients, as well ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... skills or obstetrical surgical skills training program, in practice, the certificate is not a requirement for hospital ... scan of surgical care in rural BC to identify the practice locations of enhanced surgical skills ... personnel were excluded from the scan. Data on the practice locations of enhanced surgical skills physicians, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Adrian Marcuzzi, BHSc May 2024
... to total knee arthroplasty; highlight concerns about the practice; and advise against opioid use in this patient ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... program has instilled the importance of reflective practice through regular portfolio sessions, which take the ... journaling exercises on difficult experiences in clinical practice followed by group debriefs. However, these mostly ...
Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM June 2024
... optimization have been well established in literature and practice since 2000. Preoperative clinics are now mainstream ... imperative to repair the future by changing our present practice. Competing interests Dr Zentner is founder of the ...
Letters / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD March 2024
... pain tools make this approach possible in a busy medical practice. Pain questionnaires can be used prior to an ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD May 2024
... with an apology: “Sorry, but can I . . . ?” This practice seems ingrained in our culture. Reflecting on when I ... what they find to be the most rewarding part of family practice, many tell me it is the longitudinal nature of the ...