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News&Notes December 2016
... at St. Paul’s Hospital, which ran alongside the Family Practice Residency program. Each year the CFPC honors 10 ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
... family physician with a focus on geriatric general practice. A last-minute decision to pursue medicine led Dr ... where after 2 decades of satisfying work running his practice he’s also in a role that fulfills everything else ... these people are cool!   Having spent 27 years in general practice, 23 of them in Vancouver, how have you seen primary ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... and good judgment. The journey toward establishing a practice in this remote area was surprisingly long, ... We then approached the IHA and proposed setting up practice in Tatla Lake at the nursing station.  Working at ... subsequently did well. One of the hardest aspects of rural practice is being prepared for anything. I have about 14 ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... began in 1995, including 10 years on the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) and 8 years as its ... Australia, which is when I worked in Cairns doing family practice and worked in the Cairns-based hospital. Then we ... time. We did so many fantastic things to improve family practice. It was inspirational to be there. Are there any ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
... He is concerned that no new dermatologists are coming to practice in the province and many practising dermatologists ... Toronto) Dr David M. Bachop Awards Silver Medal in General Practice: Dr Elysia Ma (practising in Beaumont, Alberta) ...
News&Notes / BY: Benjamin Brzezynski, MA, November 2014
... of care, doctors depend on a sustainable and engaged practice environment. The creation and maintenance of this ... support with the negotiation of local contracts and some practice management issues. Medical association negotiators ... and conflict resolution for doctors, with a focus on practice management and communicating with patients. The CMA ...
News&Notes / BY: Graham White, MD, October 2013
... The British Co-lumbia Medical Association Patterns of Practice Committee (POPC), jointly funded by the BCMA and ... information to doctors regarding their pattern of practice. The POPC also provides advice to the MSP Audit ... POPC works to educate physicians about their pattern of practice through the production of the annual mini-profile. ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... something I hadn’t seen before in 28 years of practice, or something that other emerg docs on shift at the ... if we could better communicate the work of the General Practice Services Committee, Shared Care Committee and Specialist Services Committee so that their best practice recommendations would be adopted across the ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2013
... the motion “That the BCMA examine the increasing practice of the legal profession and ICBC limiting ... important issue, and it was concluded that changing this practice is within the power of the profession, and that the ... Cowi­chan jumped at the chance for a division of family practice back in October of 2009, and was one of the ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2012
... wasted a minimum of 2 years. Many of them have been out of practice for 10 years, which is way too long. There needs to ... or an ophthalmologist. The division of family practice had a party for the graduates and that was the deciding factor; they wooed me in. My practice was always half full-service family practice and ...