Each year, the Victoria Basic Clinical Year Residency Program recognizes outstanding clinical preceptors through the BCY Preceptor Honour Roll. I’m delighted to share this year’s honourees: Dr. Derek Paradiso-Shaw (Anesthesia) Dr. Grant McIntyre (ICU) Dr. Jennifer Balfour (Pediatrics) Dr. Mark Vu (Anesthesia) Dr. Matt Carere (Emergency) Dr. Brad Williamson (Psychiatry) […]
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Dr. Ian Bekker wants to improve community physician’s access to patient health information (Island Health and other sources). Through SIFEI Engagement Project funding, he’s working to do just that. He’s offering two roundtable sessions (Aug 8 and Aug 12) for physicians to share their frustrations, needs, and ideas. Participants will […]
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Looking for some good books? Here’s one! From Goodreads: Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard’s most compelling columns, covering a […]
Read moreDr. Ian Bekker would like to improve community physician’s access to patient health information (Island Health and other sources). Please email him your frustrations and needs. Interested in a conversation in person or on Zoom? Let him know! Ian.bekker@islandhealth.ca
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We were beyond delighted to hear from Dr. David Cook about his recent Walk a Doc with Dr. Chris Hall. Thank you for your glowing review and kind words, David! “I was prompted to pursue doing a Walk a Doc because I have been running a pre-operative smoking cessation clinic […]
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Thank you to those members of the South Island Medical Staff who have put forward questions about the Clinical Governance Improvement Initiative (CGII). We hope that Dr. Williams will address these at our MSA Meeting on Monday, May 9th. Do you have questions to add? Let us know or bring […]
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An update from Dr. Anna Mason: As part of a Medical Staff Association Facilities Engagement Initiative, we are conducting an “Interdepartmental Impact Review of the Primary Care Crisis on Specialty Physician Experiences.” The aim of this project is to engage specialist physicians in the shared goal of improving the primary […]
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Meghan Drew-McKinstry and Dr. Leanne Genge will join Pacific Hematology group in July and September 2022, respectively. Dr. Leanne Genge will join Pacific Hematology in September 2022. She completed her internal medicine training in Vancouver before returning to her alma mater for her […]
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Our April Doctor’s Lounge Meetup was all about the Physician Health Program. We had the pleasure of welcoming Tom Rapanakis, Executive Director, and Felicia Phan, Physician Health and Wellness Liaison to the Lounge and learned so much! Did you know: Confidentiality at PHP is like at your own physician’s office. […]
Read moreFrustrated with some of the practical challenges of his Island Health inbox, Dr. Ian Bekker wanted to find ways to make his email address work better. Supported by the South Island MSA’s Facility Engagement funding, Dr. Bekker worked with IMIT on ways to streamline incoming messages, optimize inboxes, and even […]
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