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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD January/February 2017
... medical home? A patient medical home is a longitudinal GP practice in which doctors are supported to practise with the ... to additional health care services provided outside of the practice. By working within their practice and networking with other physicians and health care ...
Editorials / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS March 2017
... of common clinical scenarios in a busy clinician’s practice. While most people in British Columbia and Canada ... available during any single clinical encounter in a busy practice. One possible solution is to complete the assessment ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2017
... part of their mandatory 8-week rural rotation. Although my practice is located on the periphery of Metro Vancouver, my type of practice has many of the characteristics of a rural family practice and is considered by the UBC Faculty of Medicine to ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD April 2017
... bond with other doctors regardless of their area of practice, age, or location. We were all trainees once, and we ... recollections of hilarious events during our training and practice that strike a chord with everyone. There was an ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Shelley Ross, MD April 2017
... doctors in caring for patients with chronic pain.   The Practice Support Program (PSP) Pain Management module One of ... and resources to patients.  Divisions of Family Practice resources Divisions around the province have created ... Surgeons of BC’s Methadone and Buprenorphine: Clinical Practice Guideline for Opioid Use Disorder[ 5 ] as the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou May 2017
... and initiatives currently being led by divisions of family practice. One example is North Peace Division’s team-based ... created when 16 of the community’s physicians left practice in 2013 and 2014, leaving 23 344 patients without ... the North Peace Primary Care Clinic, Fort St. John Family Practice Associates, and ABC Medical Clinic. Community and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou June 2017
... the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s clinical practice guidelines for opioid prescribing[ 1 ] have inspired ... local and provincial levels.[ 2 ]  Divisions of family practice have been at the forefront of developing many of ... is a help line developed by the Nanaimo Division of Family Practice to support physicians who have questions about ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG July/August 2017
... It’s unsettling. This has ramifications for medical practice, of course. In all areas of medicine, we have to be ... came later. In two specific activities in medical practice, skilled communication is essential: first, when ... toward impersonal interactions will slowly infect medical practice as well, leading to our spoken interactions with ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD September 2017
... value most in my colleagues is dependability. In today’s practice of medicine we depend on each other to provide the ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2017
... so you can better deal with all those millennials in your practice. Imagine the look on their faces when you enter the ...