Set to launch at the end of the year, the five-year project will waive certain practice readiness assessment requirements for eligible IMGs, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
A new tool, the CHILDhood Asthma Risk Tool, or CHART, helps providers determine the risk of childhood asthma. A study on its efficacy was published in JAMA, concluding it could be used as a routine screening tool in primary care.
Three appellate court judges concluded the Newfoundland and Labrador Pharmacy Board had no legal right to conduct quality assurance assessments and no basis for punishing pharmacist Beverley Vey.
Medscape's poll found male doctors accounted for close to 80% of bad workplace behaviours witnessed by other doctors. In majority of the instances, the offenders faced no disciplinary action.
Rossemarie Castro Rosales—who posed as 'Dr. Marie Milne'—may also have sexually assaulted some of the customers she 'treated,' according to Edmonton police.
Winnipeg pharmacist owner Robert Nieman also allowed a pharmacist restricted from ordering controlled drugs to make purchases using his credentials, said the College of Pharmacists of Manitoba.
