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President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD January/February 2009
... to foreign-trained physicians, and expanding scope of practice to other health care workers such as nurse ... and midwives. In January, the mandated scope of practice of pharmacists has increased, and currently regulation has been proposed to expand scope of practice to naturopaths and optometrists. In the throne ...
News / BY: David M. Lawson, PhD, RPsych January/February 2009
... an exercise habit can be established after a month’s practice overlooks the distinction between habit formation ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2009
... is best for the patient. When I first started my general practice, I decided I would not see pharmaceutical detailers ... up the tab for lunches and food at rounds and talks. This practice continues into our working lives. Who hasn’t ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG March 2009
... answers, and a feeling that little will change in your practice as a result of attending. In fact, after decades of ...
News March 2009
The General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) implemented the Practice Support Program (PSP) in May 2007 to support general practitioners in clinical redesign, practice management redesign, and optimizing clinical ...
News March 2009
... the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She has been in practice at BCCH since early 1996 and counts among her ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2009
... us along, encourage us to work together, and improve the practice situation for each of our member sections. As on any ... who are familiar with the government’s proposed scope of practice legislation. But we are moving forward in a positive ... who has spent countless hours ensuring that scope of practice expansion for other health providers is done in a ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD April 2009
... reasonably be allowed some expansion of their scope of practice. I argued that fighting this legislation would not ... review by the Health Professions Council of the scopes of practice of each regulated health profession concluded that ... and therapeutic advances, so do standards for clinical practice.” It is unclear whether a rational analysis ever ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... President, Victoria Medical Society Letters Re: Scope of practice ...
Letters / BY: Mike Marshall, MD, April 2009
... loans to pay off the government, get out into private practice, and repay the bank loan in less than a year. Any ...