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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 ...
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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD April 2009
... enhanced in a number of ways and allows some medical practice income to coincide with partial disability payments. ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD May 2009
... refuse to see the benefits of physical activity. In my practice I often prescribe physical activity to my ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2009
... its intention to substantially increase the scopes of practice of a number of health professions. This followed on ... take a serious look at these issues. Changes in scope of practice are not new, and in some cases are entirely ... Provinces are clearly looking to changes in scope of practice as one means of addressing health human resource ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD July/August 2009
Aside from having a busy GP practice in the Fraser Valley, I have developed an ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Samir K. Sinha, MD, DPhil, FRCPC, September 2009
... setting and promotes interprofessional collaborative practice.  While this may sound logical and obvious, we are ...