Policy-makers won’t be able to ignore the comprehensive curriculum renewal of undergraduate programs at the University of British Columbia’s medical school outlined in a new report, says one of its principals.
Targeted funding for both family doctors and specialists in British Columbia is apparently soothing traditionally tense relations between the two groups.
Recipients of three British Columbia Medical Association Excellence in Health Promotion Awards bestowed at this year’s annual meeting of the group have provided effective ways residents of the province can better manage their own health.
Two stalwart members of the British Columbia Medical Association wonder why their board has done little with a popular, badly-needed resolution approved without debate at the group’s annual meeting last year.
The spokesman for British Columbia’s family doctors is sanguine about a health ministry promise to provide a GP for every resident of the province by 2015.
