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Letters / BY: Lisa Veres, MD April 2024
... since the formation of the Victoria Division of Family Practice 13 years ago. We started with great excitement and ...
Letters / BY: Rainer Borkenhagen, MD January/February 2024
... to divorce. I was (as was typical) overly committed to my practice, and she had the family burden, to the detriment of ... burden, which entailed me giving up my family practice and working part-time for the next 10 years. This ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD May 2024
... with an apology: “Sorry, but can I . . . ?” This practice seems ingrained in our culture. Reflecting on when I ... what they find to be the most rewarding part of family practice, many tell me it is the longitudinal nature of the ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC April 2024
... valued. Increasingly, the administrative burdens of practice have led to concerns about physician wellness and ...
Letters / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD March 2024
... pain tools make this approach possible in a busy medical practice. Pain questionnaires can be used prior to an ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC Early online
... unwillingness of physicians to engage in this kind of practice and their ability to standardize their practices. ... referral models by working with local communities of practice, holding engagement sessions with referring ... created new fee structures in 2011 to support nurses in practice with rheumatologists. This was in response to ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... program has instilled the importance of reflective practice through regular portfolio sessions, which take the ... journaling exercises on difficult experiences in clinical practice followed by group debriefs. However, these mostly ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2024
After a few years in practice, I witnessed some of my older colleagues give up ... a day off during the week, and I still do. Starting out in practice is nerve-racking. The worries are endless. The ... every new patient who walked through my door into my practice. That saved me a lot of headaches and is a pearl I ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD January/February 2024
... who were on the verge of retiring have stayed in practice thanks to the new payment model, and this shift has ... and administrative obligations attached to having a family practice. They also fear not being able to find coverage when ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... Act, had a duty to maintain the standard of medical practice throughout the province. What better way was ... of which are accreditation programs (16%), complaints and practice investigations (16%), and legal services (14%). In ... access to top-ranked point-of-care tools such as BMJ Best Practice and DynaMed and a variety of other online clinical ...