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President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) November 2013
... Canadian EMR adoption rates have risen from 23% in 2006 to 56% in 2012, countries such as Australia, New ... close to 80%, and will likely reach 85% or more by 31 March 2014. With PITO (Physician Information Technology ... typed emergency record the very next morning? In this issue of the BCMJ you can read more about this topic and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA, December 2012
... healing benefits.  Screening mammography program In March 2010 a mammography technician and the assistant deputy ... education for UBC medical students and residents   In 2006 the Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education ... 25 ]  Infant safety has not been reported as an issue in numerous countries where prison infant and mother ...
News October 2008
... The votes have been tallied, and we have a clear winner: March 2008's smoking gun cover, illustrating that issue's focus on COPD. The race between second and third ... points separating them. Second place goes to the November 2006 cover illustrating mild traumatic brain injury, and ...
News / BY: Tara Lyon April 2007
... Vancouver General Hospital and Heather Heritage Society, 2006. Hardcover. $35. To order, contact the Heather Heritage ... a little book about the flu (reviewed in the December 2006 issue) and thinks he is an author. The “Laminator” has ... planning a pregnancy in the period of 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008 can take advantage of the BCMA Pregnancy Leave ...
News July/August 2007
... dying people want  by David Kuhl, MD. Doubleday Canada, 2006. ISBN-10: 0385660669. Paperback, 336 pp. $25. This book ... Open Enrollment will be coming your way in the September issue of the  BCMJ. —Sandie Braid, CEBS Assistant ... in a designated community. The application deadline is 31 March 2010 or until all available funding has been ...
News / BY: Fiona Youatt, June 2007
... only 5% of the new funds allocated to GP Services in the 2006 Letter of Agreement. The GP Services Committee is also ... CEBS BCMA Benefits Correction: Mr Garth Evans In the March 2007 issue we incorrectly added the letters “MD” after Garth ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2007
For this theme issue on pandemic influenza, we assembled a panel of experts ... 5 , 12 ]  Initially, the US population was affected in March, April, and May 1918; subsequently, influenza spread ... of Canada ( www.influenza.gc.ca ), where the most recent 2006 version of the national plan can also be found ( ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, November 2007
... ratified by the membership a year and a half ago in spring 2006, laid out a new structure for the Physician Master ... and the subsidiary agreements is from 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2012. The Physician Master Agreement supersedes the ... of services. Included in the polybag with this month’s issue of the  BC Medical Journal  is a Membership Guide to ...
News / BY: Fiona Youatt, October 2006
2006 Agreement news update The 2006 Agreement ratified by ... the monthly editions of e-News. Please note that as this issue of the Journal went to print, the Agreement was still ... an additional $3.2 million between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2010 to the following: • Rural Education Action Plan ...
Letters / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd July/August 2006
... not to miss in the office,” by Dr Ian L. Mitchell in the March issue of the  BCMJ  (2006;48[2]:84-85) . Point number 7, regarding myocardial ...