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News&Notes / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2010
... of two or three of the largest private practice clinics in BC.  In January 2010, Caledonian Clinic switched from an ... for transcriptionists to enter information dictated by the doctors.  By 2009, however, Ms Gross and the clinic saw that ... and technical details under Case Studies at  www.pito.bc.ca . News&Notes Special Feature: An EMR story that spans ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD May 2010
... Services, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, family doctors, and East Vancouver community youth groups right from ... your school board, please write to me at  president@bcma.bc.ca . —Brian Brodie, MD President President's Comment ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, May 2010
... exciting area. Now alumni who practise in rural and remote BC can be engaged. Whether it is through teaching or ... These formed the basis of the relationship between the doctors of BC and the provincial government. The agreements ... has changed dramatically also: there are 700 to 800 doctors in this province who are of East Indian descent. Last ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD June 2010
... commitment. Are things changing? Our medical school in BC has doubled in size over the past several years. Students ... care, not the ongoing hands-on education of our future doctors. Something will eventually give. And then there is ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2010
... tests. This virtual hospital could be staffed by virtual doctors, nurses, and other health professionals not requiring ... patient-focused funding program is going to be run by the BC Health Services Purchasing Or­ganization. You, like me, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Robert Young, MD, June 2010
... representatives from Divisions of Family Practice across BC met with representatives from the BCMA, the Ministry of ... of attachment, which is to ensure that every person in BC who wants to have a family physician can, including those ... they are es­tablished as a society with over 85% of the doctors in the community and they have a collaborative ...
News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2010
... crisis is likely to deepen as our aging population of doctors moves into retirement. But while cogent explanations ... from abroad and to repatriate foreign-trained Canadian doctors have yet to deliver the hoped-for bonanza, and even ... and regulatory structures can be put into place. As yet BC does not regulate PAs, although the government has ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2010
... Next, I remember a negotiated contract where the doctors of BC were partially responsible for the global physician ... government decided early on in the fiscal year that the doctors were going to exceed this budget, so without ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erica Frank, MD, September 2010
... health or personal health practices of physicians in BC.  Such an investigation is worthwhile because ... ac­cepted until April 2008, and a fourth mailing went to BC physicians in order to boost response rates. Res­ponses ... the health of BC physicians. This will serve both BC doctors and their patients, as there is a strong and ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... in Alberta have piloted it and it will be piloted in BC before its adoption by the Office of the Superintendent of ... Motor Vehicles as a recommended screening tool.  The 2010 BC Guide in Determining Fitness to Drive was extensively ... criterion for retention, not fixed-term limits. Why should doctors get involved in the BCMA? Well, I first got involved ...