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March 21, 2019

This past February, more than 375 people gathered in Vancouver to attend the Joint Collaborative Committees’ (JCCs) ‘The Power of Togetherness’ event - an inspiring day of sharing and learning about the diverse quality improvement work taking place in the province. For the last four years,...

March 19, 2019

Medical student Cohord Mason’s upbringing on a small ranch on the edge of Kamloops instilled in him a love of rodeo, biology, and rural British Columbia—three passions he’s working to combine in a career as a family physician.

Growing up with his parents, two brothers, and several horses...

March 14, 2019

The provincial government is again delaying enforcement of provisions of the Medicare Protection Act (Bill 92) that relate to extra billing and private MRI/diagnostic facilities (Section 18.1)

Enforcement of financial penalties for extra billing for medically necessary treatments was to...
March 14, 2019
“The question you think you shouldn’t ask could be the most important one to your life in medicine – so please, ask us anything.” With that message from Doctors of BC President Dr Eric Cadesky, Find Your Match, an evening of career speed dating, got underway.   Back in 2014, when Doctors of BC...
MSPQI
March 13, 2019

Physicians know the importance of clinically relevant data to improve the health care system and, more importantly patient care. However, it takes a lot of collaboration to find meaningful  measures that can be consistently collected to inform health care planning and patient care in BC.  The...