September

The 2007 BCMA Annual General Meeting was a bit of the new, a lot of the old, and then, like a plant wilting in the sun, it flopped over, unable to sustain itself as members slipped out the door.

Not all old news is bad news, of course, and Dr Don Rix, chair of the Audit and Finance Committee, was able to replay a happy tune (this year trumpeted by a few of his friends from the brass section of the Vancouver Opera): BCMA finances remain sound, and the committee recommended that there be no dues increase for the third year in a row.

An international medical graduate (IMG) is a physician holding a medical degree from a school outside of Canada that is not accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools or the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.[1] Since the 1970s, Canada has depended on IMG physicians to aid in the delivery of health care throughout the country. A scarcity of physicians and specialists since the late 1990s has advanced initiatives to allow more IMG physicians to practise in Canada. 

In British Columbia, methamphetamine use among adolescents has become an apparent public health concern. Most of the available data on methamphetamine use in British Columbia comes from school-based surveys.

Sleep deprivation and fatigue and their aftereffects during medical training are topical issues in medical education.

Cryptococcus neoformans variety gattii (herein referred to as C. gattii) emerged for the first time in a region with a temperate climate on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in 1999.[1] C. gattii is an environmental fungus that causes infection through inhalation of its spores. In BC, it has been found throughout the east coast of Vancouver Island, where it has been isolated from multiple tree species, soil, water, and air.[2]

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