Newsflash March 14, 2024
This edition includes updates on the application process for an IMG for your clinic, calls for preceptors and IMG assessors, and more. Read it here
Apply now for an IMG placement in your clinic
Is your practice interested in a UBC IMG Family Practice Return of Service (ROS) resident who is practice-ready in the summer of 2025? Ten residents will be available for placement in Vancouver Island clinics. Please read the program information and submit the application form to Island Health by April 12, 2024. If you prefer to […]
Looking for family medicine preceptors
Are you interested in teaching family medicine residents? The UBC Department of Family Practice Residency Program is looking for preceptors. View the FAQs on what it means to become a preceptor.
Help get more Doctors licensed in BC
Assess an internationally trained family physician in your clinic for 12 weeks. Get paid and earn CPD credits. View the info poster and postcard to learn more
After Hours Care Program (AHCP) Update
The Family Practice Services Committee announced in January that the AHCP pilot has transitioned to an ongoing provincial Initiative. Since then, the AHCP service received multiple calls from local patients whose primary care providers are not registered with the program. To ensure adequate follow-up, we would like to get those interested in joining registered. Read […]
Hospitalists at RJH/VGH stopping MAID consult service
RJH/VGH are experiencing a hospitalist shortage. The reasons are a combination of difficulty recruiting, retirements, part-time hospitalists devoting more time to office work, and increased hospital occupancy and workload. The result is that the hospitalists have to stop their MAID consult service. Resolving this for the long-term means recruiting more hospitalists or decreasing occupancy, neither […]
Divisions Dispatch March 6, 2024
The FPSC’s latest Divisions Dispatch includes updates on the LFP payment model for long-term and inpatient care, extended grants for maternity care physicians, new support for cancer patients, and more that will not be duplicated in the Newsflash. Read it here
CBT Skills Group Society renamed to Mind Space
In addition to CBT Skills Groups, Mind Space offers Raising Resilient Kids Parenting Groups, Skills for Success: ADHD Strategies for Adults, and distinct level two/booster groups. Find updated Mind Space information on Pathways, or check out mind-space.ca and use the universal referral form.
Pathways Pearls on platform improvements
Pathways has improved search and filtering functions and offers additional advice tans and wait time details. Read more
Island Health Addiction Medicine learning opportunities
Please see Island Health’s March 2024 list of upcoming MHSU learning opportunities. Includes registration, Zoom links, and resources of interest.
