Licensing

Advertising, training, roles and background checks: Alberta pharmacists need to wrap their heads around some regulation changes that came into place last year.

Canadian Pharmacists Association vice-president of public affairs Joelle Walker said Americans buying cheaper Canadian drugs is nothing new.

Instead of going to war with doctors, how about politicians focus on meaningful solutions to retain the physicians we train, says Dr. Sohail Gandhi.

Québec pharmacy owner Réjean Lemay sold his pharmacy just weeks before the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec imposed a one-month suspension and college costs.

Junior doctors—those in the first years of their careers—make up almost half of all NHS doctors.

The Nova Scotia college heard “serious concerns” from B.C.’s College of Pharmacists about the doctor, who lives in the U.S. but is licensed in Nova Scotia as a non-resident.

Ontario endocrinologist Dr. Elika Safar Zadeh also threatened to jeopardize the patient’s child custody status by filing a lawsuit for harassment and defamation, according to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal.

The Alberta Pharmacists’ Association has created a new online tool to help provisional pharmacists connect with preceptors.