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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD April 2015
Local divisions of family practice have identified team-based care as an integral part ... rates in BC. As of 1 March 2015, 22 divisions of family practice have completed an evaluation of their community ... recruitment, retention, and retirement strategies; practice support and coaching; and health promotion and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD May 2015
... service agreements in 2011 with local divisions of family practice and their respective health authority partners in ... with other stakeholders helped establish five best practice expectations for the provincial initiative: 1.    ... 5.    Attendance at case conferences These best practice expectations are anticipated to reduce unnecessary ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: John Hamilton, MD, July/August 2015
... being led by three joint clinical committees—the General Practice Services Committee, the Specialist Services ... operates at various levels, from physician-led changes in practice such as those implemented by community-based divisions of family practice involved in A GP for Me, to provincial-level ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD October 2015
... in residential care facilities. Five divisions of family practice began prototyping the initiative in 2011: ... who practise in communities in which no division of family practice has been formed are invited to self-organize and ... take place. In the past 4 months, 28 divisions of family practice have applied for funding for the planning phase of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2015
... to patients, physicians need to participate in CME and practice-improvement learning opportunities that are both ... measured using set criteria. In recent years the medical practice landscape has shifted significantly: patients are ... requests for innovative learning opportunities, the Practice Support Program (PSP) has introduced a new model of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi December 2015
A new tool developed by Divisions of Family Practice will help GPs around the province better manage their medical practices. The Practice Toolkit, a fully customizable resource built to suit ... and employee conduct. The Divisions produced the Practice Toolkit based on a model originally created by the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Cathy Clelland, MD January/February 2015
... There is enhanced access for appointments. 5.    The practice includes well-supported information technology, ... health care provider satisfaction, knowledge, skills, and practice behaviors; broader range of services; better access, ... are four main issues: 1.    Clarification of scope of practice and roles 2.    Information sharing 3.    ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd January/February 2015
... case. In the 1920s medical specialties emerged and medical practice began to shift from home to office and hospital. ... and Surgeons of Canada in 1931. Since the 1950s general practice has become a specialty in its own right. As medicine ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2015
... Service—Dr Carole Williams Silver Medal in General Practice—Dr Matthew Petzold Dr Cam Coady Award Dr David ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd November 2015
... trying to mediate a settlement himself, noting that this practice works very well. In the last 3 years he has resolved ... that medicolegal work is a fulfilling aspect of medical practice, noting that he would like to make young doctors ... his daughter is just finishing her residency in family practice. Mr Webster Jr. also volunteers his time with the ...