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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD January/February 2017
... medical home? A patient medical home is a longitudinal GP practice in which doctors are supported to practise with the ... to additional health care services provided outside of the practice. By working within their practice and networking with other physicians and health care ...
Letters / BY: Robert Love, MD January/February 2017
Many family practice colleagues have been complaining of the increased ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... of common clinical scenarios in a busy clinician’s practice. While most people in British Columbia and Canada ... available during any single clinical encounter in a busy practice. One possible solution is to complete the assessment ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2017
... part of their mandatory 8-week rural rotation. Although my practice is located on the periphery of Metro Vancouver, my type of practice has many of the characteristics of a rural family practice and is considered by the UBC Faculty of Medicine to ...
Letters / BY: John Sehmer, MD March 2017
... Dr Keith White, chair of the Doctors of BC Patterns of Practice Committee, quotes the College guideline on access to ... public through excellence and professionalism in medical practice.” The College appears unconcerned about the ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD March 2017
... upfront investment required when a new patient joins a practice, but must look to Doctors of BC and the Medical ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD April 2017
... bond with other doctors regardless of their area of practice, age, or location. We were all trainees once, and we ... recollections of hilarious events during our training and practice that strike a chord with everyone. There was an ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2017
... doctors in caring for patients with chronic pain.   The Practice Support Program (PSP) Pain Management module One of ... and resources to patients.  Divisions of Family Practice resources Divisions around the province have created ... Surgeons of BC’s Methadone and Buprenorphine: Clinical Practice Guideline for Opioid Use Disorder[ 5 ] as the ...
Letters / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD April 2017
After 43 years in the trenches of general practice, I applaud the fortitude and wisdom of the Pemberton ... requests for chart copies and reports (the bane of practice!), stringent opiate-prescribing guidelines, and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou May 2017
... and initiatives currently being led by divisions of family practice. One example is North Peace Division’s team-based ... created when 16 of the community’s physicians left practice in 2013 and 2014, leaving 23 344 patients without ... the North Peace Primary Care Clinic, Fort St. John Family Practice Associates, and ABC Medical Clinic. Community and ...