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News April 2025
The Government of BC is fast-tracking credential recognition and launching a ... coordinated, targeted recruitment campaign to attract more doctors and nurses from the US. The province is working with ... Surgeons of BC on a direct process to enable US-trained doctors who hold certification from the American Board of ...
Premise / BY: Goldis Mitra, MD, CCFP April 2025
... of the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model in BC and significant investments in primary care by the ... problem. Quite simply, we don’t have enough family doctors to provide the increasingly complex care[ 4 ] that ... are a global issue: there are significant shortages of doctors, nurses, and key professionals in both high- and ...
President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD April 2025
... leaders striving to make a difference. —Charlene Lui, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment A culture of compassion ...
Letters / BY: Vanessa Kong, BA April 2025
In 2016, the BC provincial health officer declared a public health ... Shared Care Committee, a Joint Collaborative Committee of Doctors of BC and the BC government. Lesson 1: There was a gap in ...
Letters / BY: John Maile, MBBS, April 2025
... Vancouver before moving to Quesnel. In 1965, there was no BC Ambulance Service. The local ambulance, a museum piece ... 1950s, was owned and operated by the local taxi driver. Doctors were sometimes asked to join when they were attending ... local sawmill. It was with these constraints that we rural doctors needed to work. A selection of cases might cast ...
Letters / BY: Gary C. Jackson, MD April 2025
The article “Cervical screening in BC—Change inspired by First Nations and Métis ... also an excellent teaching tool for nurses, midwives, and doctors. This device, and possibly others that may follow, ...
Premise / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC May 2025
... bear fruit.  Health care system In 2000, I predicted that BC health care would come to be provided in a setting of more ... by the outstanding web-based guidance available from the Doctors Technology Office, a joint initiative of Doctors of BC and the provincial government. A further major ...
News May 2025
Doctors of BC’s mission is to empower BC doctors as leaders in delivering and enhancing patient ...
News May 2025
... Standards Act to help ease the administrative burden on BC’s health care practitioners by clarifying when it is ... sick note. The regulations will deal with notes from doctors and nurse practitioners, and may also consider notes ... between providers. As a result of a partnership with Doctors of BC and Health Quality BC, changes are being ...
President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD May 2025
... physicians came together 125 years ago to form what is now Doctors of BC, at a time when medical professionals had little support, ... possible care.  Today, we celebrate the incredible impact Doctors of BC has had over the past 125 years, shaping the ...