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With the 2024 Royal College exam season around the corner, data from the college shows that most specialties have pass rates at or near 100%—with some exceptions.

The plan will cover methods including birth control pills and intrauterine devices and cost an estimated $11 million a year.

Because any physician or nurse practitioner in Alberta can prescribe Mifegymiso, the medication has helped eliminate geographic barriers to services for patients in rural and remote communities.

Lidocaine spray or gel used as a local anesthetic and other pain treatments—think ibuprofen or an injection of an anesthetic—are safe for most patients and can be effective, gynecologists say.

The new policy narrows the list of approves tests but allows applicants to forgo testing if they have Canadian or U.S. education.

Doctors talk about the aspects of their personal lives that remain non-negotiable.

Pharmacy residents can extend access to care for underserved patients as part of an interdisciplinary diabetes management clinic.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones decided against those recommendations, announcing this week that the government would ban supervised consumption sites near schools and prohibit new ones from opening in the future.