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MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, January/February 2014
... team, our clinical skills tutors, and our family practice preceptors were all keen to teach us everything they ... their business cards so that we could arrange additional practice times before exams. The third-year medical students ... in small-group learning sessions, a lecture hall, family practice office, or clinical skills room. Despite the ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) January/February 2014
... through local initiatives such as Divisions of Family Practice and in new facilities-based programs to increase, ...
MDs To Be / BY: Rebecca Gordon, BSc, March 2014
... each successive class having an extra year of exam practice. However, the district’s zonal officer changed ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) March 2014
... on the successful model set by the Divisions of Family Practice initiative, we can find solutions to the problems in ... This has been happening for some time at the family-practice level, but it’s now time for improvements at the ... who decided to engage and work with divisions of family practice. And with the support of Doctors of BC and the work ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) April 2014
... for the upcoming spring and summer. This April I find this practice particularly timely as my term as president ends ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD May 2014
With the support of the Patterns of Practice Committee (POPC), a regular column will appear in ... on the most common billing errors discovered during practice reviews and audits. The POPC is committed to ... or more. •    Initial or introductory visits to the practice by new patients. •    Travel advice, lifestyle ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD June 2014
... . —Keith White, MD, Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Audit red flag: Treating a ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD June 2014
... experience of the collaborative committees—the General Practice Services Committee, Specialist Services Committee, ... that the renaissance that has affected community family practice spreads across the profession. This step will see ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD July/August 2014
... (the host physician) or corporate body who owns the practice. To assign payment to the host physician, complete ... place, billing statistics for the physician who owns the practice are distorted. In addition, noncompliance may impact ... and the locum. —Keith White, MD Chair, Patterns of Practice Committee Billing Tips Audit tip: Locum agreements ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sean McGee, BSc (Hons), July/August 2014
... attention to the economic aspects of medical training and practice. One Canadian study found that median expected debt ... encompass the complexities of medical education and practice nor do justice to the values of medicine that centre ... and by the many medical organizations in which physicians practice, such as hospitals, health authorities, medical ...