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Letters / BY: Sue McLoughlin, MD, May 2016
... Marcus would only be suitable for those headed into family practice. Students destined for internal medicine specialties ...
Letters / BY: Vandad Yousefi, MD, CCFP, FHM, May 2016
... the complex reasons behind the overwhelming changes in practice patterns of modern-day family physicians. For ... family physicians by ensuring proper remuneration and practice support. Some of the ideas raised by Dr Nicolson may ... levels of complexity. The decline of comprehensive family practice is not only due to a fee guide that promotes ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Nicolson, MD May 2016
... pattern. I am unconvinced that high-volume low-intensity practice is a meaningful deployment of comprehensive medical ... emerging subspecialty of Internet-facilitated prescription practice (high-volume low-intensity on steroids) worries me ... excellent position paper,  A Vision for Canada: Family Practice: The Patient’s Medical Home , but would point out ...
Letters / BY: Justine Spencer, MD October 2016
... after every patient interaction. I’m grateful for this practice, which keeps me and my patients safe from contagious ... with possibly few reserves left to manage them. In a busy practice there is simply no time to fully address our ... take them home with you. —Justine Spencer, MD UBC Family Practice PGY-2 Letters I wash my hands of this: A plea for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2016
... will provide practical actions that a physician (and their practice) can take to identify caregivers, monitor caregiver ...
Letters / BY: Shirin Rostamkalaee, MD June 2016
... competition among IMGs, nor be successful in one of the practice-ready assessment programs. As a result, I’ve ... put in front of me. The enrollment requirements for practice-ready programs in Canada, such as the requirement to be in a current practice as a fully licensed physician, mostly benefit ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD June 2016
... for IMGs to help them establish themselves and set up practice in BC. The College’s role in the recruitment ... two national colleges may be eligible to participate in a practice-ready assessment (PRA) program, which involves a ... for IMGs to help ensure they can safely enter the practice of medicine. This high level of scrutiny is yet ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD September 2016
... College is to establish, monitor, and enforce standards of practice to reduce incompetent, impaired, or unethical practice. The regulation of medical marijuana is an ... medical boards that have been regulating this aspect of practice for a while. Published and personal reports ...
Letters / BY: Gerrard A. Vaughan, MD September 2016
... has a statutory obligation to set standards for medical practice, and most elements contained in the standard on safe ... must not abrogate its legal obligation to regulate medical practice, including prescribing. Regulation is foundational, ...
Letters / BY: Steve Wiseman, MD September 2016
... equivalent per day is one such example. In clinical practice, patients’ requirements, physiologies, conditions, ...
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