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Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... BC Cancer Agency (BCCA). Considering there are 111 family practice physicians per 100000 people in British Columbia,[ 5 ] less than 1% of family practice physicians in BC will encoun­ter a malignant soft ... sarcoma each year. On average, however, every family practice physician will encoun­ter three benign soft tissue ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farsheed Hedayati-Vala, MD, July/August 2008
... of physicians who are well trained in this area of practice.  Competing interests None declared. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Catherine L. Weber, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
Chances are you have several patients in your practice with chronic kidney disease (CKD). In BC, there are ... medical issues beyond the scope of a family physician’s practice. These patients suffer from common medical ... by laboratory reporting of eGFR, publication of CKD practice guidelines, and improved CKD- related CME for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC September 2008
... technologies in health care.  The demands of a busy practice and personal commitments combined with the daunting ... also includes a broader range of relevant areas such as practice management, interprofessional patient-centred care, ... assist clinicians with their clinical—and nonclinical—practice improvement. Courses and programs such as the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joanna Bates, MDCM, CCFP September 2008
... to teach the students clinical skills and community-based practice. Faculty development prepared tutors and physicians ... student body.  Student clubs such as the Family Practice Interest Group meet by videoconference so that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barry Thorneloe (VFMP), MD September 2008
... program over another when it comes to career choice and practice style. However, it is reassuring to know that while ... in engineering. My interests were primarily in family practice when I started, and as I head into my fourth year ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) September 2008
... ways for students to immerse themselves in rural practice. Successful models of integrated clerkships have ... that exposing medical students and residents to rural practice has a better chance of success than more coercive ... have to be part of broader initiatives, such as the rural practice programs implemented by the BC government in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert W. Armstrong, MD, PhD, FRCPC, September 2008
... physicians and the support of these physicians in clinical practice, academic pursuits, and leadership will define the ... broad educational reform to meet the realities of medical practice today.[ 1 , 2 ] In a recent study, the Institute of ... supporting professionalism: credentials, standards of practice, collegial relations, continuing professional ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Eric Webber, MD, FRCSC, September 2008
... first, the positions would be split between family practice and Royal College specialties at a ratio of 40% to ... programs are at or near capacity. Current picture Family practice The Department of Family Practice has a long history of geographically distributed ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan A. Hoag, BSc, October 2008
... 29 physicians were excluded because of their scope of practice.  Questionnaires were delivered in August 2007, ... surveyed was 51.1 years (SD 9.85 years). The mean years in practice was 22.7 years (SD 9.8 years).  Of the total ... screening attitudes and physician age, gender, or years of practice. The majority of respondents (74.0%) reported that ...