Targeted funding for both family doctors and specialists in British Columbia is apparently soothing traditionally tense relations between the two groups.
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.
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.
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.
In 2009-2010, Alberta pharmacists took an active role in laying out the framework that would support the pharmacy profession during its transition from product-focused services to patient outcome-focused practices.
