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Special General Meeting Results
The BCCFP held a Special General Meeting on May 23rd for members tovote on a proposed new set of bylaws. The membership voted insupport of the bylaws, which are now in effect. Thank you andcongratulations to the task force that enabled this update: Drs. LisaGaede, Christie Newton, Marjorie Docherty, and Len Roy.
Read the new bylaws
BCCFP Does the Landscaping for BC
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Patients’ Medical Home
On April 29th, 2015, the BCCFP hosted the Patient’s Medical HomeModel Symposium, bringing together 75 health care stakeholders, frompatients to Ministry of Health representatives, to discuss and create aunified implementation plan for the Patient’s Medical Home model ofcare in our province. Working together, these stakeholders talked aboutwhat BC needs to improve health services and health outcomes for itspatients—and the symposium helped spark some innovative ideas.
Discussions revealed that improvements in BC’s health care system needto achieve effective and efficient service delivery and doctorpatientengagement. The Patient’s Medical Home will address these goals bycreating a patientcentred family practice model that patients recognizeas the home base or central hub for the timely provision andcoordination of all their health needs. The model strives to providepatients with timely access to care that is continuous and personalizedwith a family physician who understands the patient’s history, healthgoals, and lifestyle.
After a full day of discussion, all stakeholder needs were addressed, andthe following next steps were identified as actionable priorities for theBCCFP:
Develop a business model that considers a variety of fundingsourcesAlign all sectors to a unified vision for the modelDevelop innovative prototypes for the model with evaluationmetrics that can be shared across the province
By addressing the needs of our patients directly and structuring healthcare around collaboration and continuity of care, better health outcomescan be achieved in a costeffective way.
Find out more about the discussions of the day by reading the fullsymposium report.
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Upcoming Opportunities
Save the Date! This year’s BCCFP Fall Family Medicine Conference willbe held on October 24th and 25th at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver.
Get ready to grab your spot. Registration opens in July and sells outquickly. To receive an early bird registration reminder,email [email protected].
Some preliminary conference topics include:
Assisted Suicide Legislation: What a Family Physician Needs toKnowDermoscopy for the NonDermoscopistTherapeutics Education with James McCormackInsomnia: Clinical PearlsThe Aging AthleteChronic Pain ManagementReview of Complex Care BillingSimple Skin Care Advice in the Office: What Works and Is LeastExpensiveAnxiety & Depression in Children and AdolescentsMild Cognitive Impairment / Office Assessment for DementiaAn Approach to Genitourinary ProlapseHandsOn Injection Workshops
Mainpro+ Coming in 2016
We’re excited for all the upcoming benefits of MAINPRO+ and we hopeyou are too. As you get ready to transition from MAINPRO toMAINPRO+, please note that the MAINPRO+ release is now expected in2016, with the exact release date to be determined.
To help facilitate a smooth transition, please continue to enter yourcredits into the current MAINPRO system as usual. These credits willautomatically be transferred to MAINPRO+ in 2016, and your creditreporting schedule will remain unchanged. Please check the BCCFP
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website regularly for more information about upcoming changes andtimeframes.
What improvements can you expect from Mainpro+?
As part of the BCCFP’s ongoing commitment to providing qualitycontinuous professional development (CPD), Mainpro+ will:
Be easier and more intuitive to useInclude new reporting categories so you can earn credit for morepractice activitiesBe more accessible through your smartphone or tablet
Should you need help transitioning from Mainpro to Mainpro+, contactthe BC Regional Mainpro+ Educator, Dr. Jim Thorsteinson, with anyquestions you may have at [email protected] .
BCCFP Resident Award WinnersAnnounced
The results are in! After another year of inspiring nominations andphenomenal candidates, three new award winners have beenannounced.
Dr. Stuart Gray from Comox is the 2015 recipient of the BCCFPResident Leadership Award to a UBC Family Medicine graduate. Dr. Grayis the Chief Resident of the Strathcona Family Medicine Residency Site,encompassing Comox, Courtney, and Campbell River. He strives to helpresidents achieve worklife balance and to take advantage of the greatoutdoor activities the site has to offer. He has also been a leader increating the Strathcona Family Practice program, a program that enablesresidents to choose the focus of their rotations and enjoy the skills andchallenges they’re looking for. Congratulations Dr. Gray!
Dr. Adam JonesDelcorde from Chilliwack is this year’s Dr. Manooand Jean Gurjar Award winner. Each year, the Dr. Manoo and Jen GurjarAward is presented to a first or second year Family Medicine Residentwho has demonstrated excellence in the field. Dr. JonesDelcorde is Co
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Chief Resident of the Chilliwack Family Medicine Residency Site, whichboasts a coveted balance between rural and urban family practice. Dr.JonesDelcorde always makes an effort to help his residents gainresponsibility and make fast friends.
My Family Doctor Award Winner Announced
Dr. Anthon Meyer from Fort St. James was nominated by Dorothy andJim Wasylenko and others to be the 2015 My Family Doctor Awardrecipient. Dr. Meyer has been the Wasylenkos’ family doctor since hemoved to Fort St. James in 2012. Since then, he has helped the familyovercome difficult health obstacles with a patientcentered approach towhich Jim now attributes his life. Read the whole nominating story here.
Doctor’s Corner: Dr. Anthon Meyer
Dr. Meyer is a family physician in Fort St. James whose passion forseeing patients overcome health obstacles has made him this year’srecipient of the My Family Doctor Award. Three years ago, Dr. Meyerbegan practicing in the small rural town of Fort St. James to help meetthe urgent medical needs of this underserved community and to liveclose to his daughter and soninlaw, both of whom are also familyphysicians in Fort St. James.
Dr. Meyer’s practice revolves around a key maxim: “The greatest gift Ihave as a family physician is to touch the soul of my patients. Thisallows me to engage patients as active partners in their healingjourney.”
Receiving the 2015 My Family Doctor Award has left Dr. Meyer feelingboth humbled and invigorated. This award confirms the benefits of apatientcentered approach and signifies his patient’s widespreadappreciation for this approach. In fact, Dr. Meyer and the Fort St. Jamescommunity have striven to implement integrated, collaborative, patientcentered care since 2012—shortly after the Patient’s Medical Homemodel of care was first publicized in Canada. Dr. Meyer is eager toshare that this model has created a very positive shift in mentality for
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his patients from a “revolving door mentality”, in which doctors comeand go without continuity, to active participation and partnership inhealth maintenance.
“The most important lesson I’ve learned from my patients is that it’s notpatients who need to change. Doctors need to change the way we treatpatients because every patient responds well to being respected andsupported.”
Dr. Meyer also humbly recognizes that he too has an invaluable supportsystem enabling him to better help his patients—his colleagues, clinicstaff, and especially his wife and family have stood by him throughouthis oftenisolated, sometimestaxing rural community practice, and hecouldn’t have done it without them.
APPS for Docs
MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults deal withanxiety. It can help your patients learn how to relax, develop morehelpful ways of thinking, and identify active steps that will enable themto control their anxiety. This app includes strategies to deal witheveryday anxiety, as well as specific tools to tackle:
Test AnxietyPerfectionismSocial AnxietyPerformance AnxietyWorryPanicConflict
Download MindShift for Apple or Android.
Diagnosaurus is a reference tool to help health care professionalsperform differential diagnosis with speed and confidence at the point ofcare. Use this app to quickly search over 1000 diagnoses by organsystem, symptom, disease, or view all entries.
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Download Diagnosaurus.
Epocrates is a very comprehensive medical app. Use this app to lookup drug information and interactions, find other providers of consults andreferrals, and quickly calculate patient measurements like BMI.
Download Epocrates for Apple or Android.
In the News: Doctors Introduce Telehealth
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Technology
In BC’s CaribooChilcotin region, unsafe driving conditions and longdistances between homes and hospitals can make doctor’sappointments difficult to keep. Find out how doctors in the region aresolving this issue:
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