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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2014
... than ever to stay current with rapid advancements in best practice recommendations. This is especially true in the busy general practice environment where physicians need to make efficient, ... of BC physicians were using online journals, clinical practice guidelines, and medical databases in patient care,[ ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD November 2014
... out of their practices, BC is in growing need of family practice providers of primary maternity care. Billing fee ... family physicians who include obstetrics in their scope of practice. On 1 October, the GPSC reinstated its obstetrical ... for established family physicians and those newly in practice through hands-on experience, mentorship, and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD December 2014
In British Columbia, 91% of eligible full-service family practice and specialist physicians (more than 5000 in total) ... are using an electronic medical record (EMR) in their practice. With one of the highest rates of EMR adoption in ... use level 3 (MU3), is foundational to an optimized medical practice. With the application of consistent, robust data, ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... on prescribers who clearly deviate from accepted medical practice in terms of prescription painkiller dosage, numbers ... C. Opioids for chronic noncancer pain: A new Canadian practice guideline. CMAJ 2010;182:923-930. Premise ...
Premise / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2014
... to enable people to live fulfilling lives for longer. This practice fails to acknowledge that the quality of death ...
Premise / BY: Granger Avery, MD September 2014
... experience, CPD, team-based care, and measured outcomes of practice examined in local and regional continuous quality ...
Premise / BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA, September 2014
... to maintain and exercise the skills employed in clinical practice. In undertaking this work (56 expert panels ... in the province should feel supported in clinical practice. While a certain skill set is required for each ... reflect with a respected colleague on one's professional practice and to deliberately plan an approach to skills ...
Premise / BY: Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD, FRCGP, December 2014
... measurement system accompanied by an extensive practice improvement process, a counting approach is unlikely ... The assessment of performance quality within family practice is not new. In 1985 the UK set up a voluntary ... physicians identify improvements they could make to their practice as a whole. Introduced before computers were ...
Premise / BY: B. Nosyk, PhD, December 2014
... the training of physicians with a background in family practice, internal medicine, and psychiatry.  Enhancing ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, January/February 2014
... to the US. He was an associate in a downtown Seattle practice from 1964 until 1966, at which time he moved to the ... of Issaquah, Washington. On Dr Terwiel’s first day of practice in Issaquah he had 20 patients and the numbers grew ... to Maple Ridge where he opened his full-service family practice as an associate of Dr Arber, one of his most ...