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News January/February 2024
... in Medical Journalism (Independent), which recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in writing an ... in Medical Journalism (Mentored), which recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in medical ... receives $750 and recognition in the BCMJ and at the Doctors of BC annual awards ceremony. For more information ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Brooke McDonald, MD March 2024
... British Columbia.[ 1 ] Data from 2011 indicated that, in BC, women who resided more than 1 hour from a hospital that ... have a long history of providing surgical care in rural BC. In 2007, the enhanced surgical skills and obstetrical ... data for the 2021–2022 fiscal year were obtained from Doctors of BC for all procedures billed by family physicians ...
Interviews / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
Congratulations on being elected the new president of Doctors of BC. I learned a lot about you from your personal website, ... my website, you saw that I’ve worked in many spaces with Doctors of BC, so this space isn’t alien to me. I was ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... our profession to a hopeful moment. More than 4000 family doctors have enrolled in the Longitudinal Family Physician ... care leadership. More than 80 health care facilities in BC now have medical staff associations allowing them to ... how do we provide our patients with the care they need? As doctors, we are at our best when we are caring for our ...
BC Stories / BY: Lauren Lypchuk, MD, CCFP January/February 2024
... outings are often the necessity trips to see us (their doctors), to go to the pharmacist, to get groceries, or to ... with the Vernon chapter, email cyclingwithoutage.vernon.bc@gmail.com . Lauren piloting Frederick and Gladys along the Okanagan Rail Trail, August 2019. BC Stories Cycling with our seniors—It’s transformational! ...
Obituaries / BY: Gillian Hodge, MD January/February 2024
... He took up a position in Bella Bella, a small island on BC’s Central Coast, in the R.W. Large Memorial Hospital ... and helped staff the hospital, as did all the local doctors. He did ward rounds on his patients, delivered many ... staffed by excellent federal nurses but no visiting doctors. The volunteer medical services he provided in his ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2024
... in surmising that there is a reluctance on the part of doctors to perform pelvic examinations [ BCMJ ... new. While practising family medicine in the North of BC in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I was asked to explain ...
News March 2024
Did you know that Doctors of BC offers members an Extended Health and Dental plan? The ... and the current monthly premiums, please log into the Doctors of BC website and, in the Member Area, select ...
Obituaries / BY: Al Kallas, MD March 2024
... escapades and adventures, often involving the BCMA (now Doctors of BC). Jim was also on the board of Pacific Blue Cross and was ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... recent interview with the BCMJ [2024;66:10-13], our new Doctors of BC president, colorectal surgeon Dr Ahmer A. Karimuddin, ...